The Roma and Human Rights: Challenges and Goals in 2014 – Lessons from the Past, Eyes to the Future
This is one in a series of events sponsored in collaboration with the Ratiu Family Foundation.
The Roma have been persecuted ever since their arrival from the Indian subcontinent to Europe in the 14th Century. They have survived slavery, pogroms, the extermination camps of the Holocaust, and forced assimilation under Communism. Pervasive discrimination continues towards the Roma today in the form of school segregation, lack of political representation, deportation, poverty, unemployment and the kidnapping of Roma children. Why does a people so resilient still have to endure widespread exclusion, racism and discrimination? Experts from the fields of sociology, law, politics, and history will discuss the future of the Roma, including the prospect for Roma integration in Europe and the remaining challenges for granting the Roma population full human rights. They will also address the issue of Roma rights at the local, national, EU, and international levels.
Event Sponsors
Speakers
Executive Director, Bucharest Inside the Beltway
Visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
Hosted By
Global Europe Program
The Global Europe Program is focused on Europe’s capabilities, and how it engages on critical global issues. We investigate European approaches to critical global issues. We examine Europe’s relations with Russia and Eurasia, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our initiatives include “Ukraine in Europe”—an examination of what it will take to make Ukraine’s European future a reality. But we also examine the role of NATO, the European Union and the OSCE, Europe’s energy security, transatlantic trade disputes, and challenges to democracy. The Global Europe Program’s staff, scholars-in-residence, and Global Fellows participate in seminars, policy study groups, and international conferences to provide analytical recommendations to policy makers and the media. Read more