42 • Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues
“
We are particularly
concerned that,
unless they are
addressed immediately,
discriminatory
measures being
introduced by local
authorities in some
parts of the country
could set a dangerous
precedent and provide
a negative example for
others,”
Director Link, press conference,
Budapest 1 July 2015.
TEACHING ABOUT THE ROMA AND
SINTI GENOCIDE
ODIHR promoted
dialogue on educating about and
remembering the
experience of Roma
and Sinti during the
Holocaust to challenge present forms
of discrimination and
promote equality. Together with the
Living History Forum and the Swedish
Ombudsman, ODIHR brought together over 60 stakeholders, including
educators, researchers, historians,
Roma and Sinti civil society, to explore
the link between history and present
and the potential of history education
for promoting non-discrimination and
equality for Roma and Sinti, on 23 April
in Stockholm.
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, ODIHR
presented an overview of practices to
OSCE/ODIHR Director Michael Georg Link speaking with a Roma
resident of the Miskolc "numbered streets" neighborhood on the
second day of a two-day visit to Hungary, 1 July 2015. (Turay Balázs)
teach about and commemorate the
Roma and Sinti genocide in the OSCE
region, in the publication Teaching
about and Commemorating the Roma
and Sinti Genocide. It was presented
and discussed at the plenary meeting
of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, on 4 November 2015
in Debrecen, Hungary.
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