Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues A Roma teacher leading students in a role-playing exercise at an integrated school in Bucharest, 12 November. (OSCE/Dan Doghi) aimed at promoting their integration and preventing racism and discrimination against them. The study illustrated a number of positive measures and policies introduced by the Spanish government that could be adopted as good practices by other States with substantial migrant Roma populations. On 5 October, during the Warsaw segment of the 2010 OSCE Review Conference, ODIHR co-organized with the European Roma Rights Centre and Amnesty International a side event focusing on the issue of Roma and Sinti migration and freedom of movement. Concerns were raised at the event about the portrayal of Roma and Sinti migrants as “threats to security and public order” and the degree to which such portrayals underpin prejudice against these communities. ODIHR representatives also made a number of visits to Italy in 2010 to follow up on and encourage the adoption of recommendations, including on integration and housing policies for Roma and Sinti, contained in the Office’s report on a field assessment visit there in 2008. Roma and Sinti in Crisis and Post-crisis Situations ODIHR organized a roundtable, in co-operation with the Serbian Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, on 16 April in Belgrade, 58 ODIHR Annual Report 2010 on the situation of Roma internally displaced persons, refugees and returnees in crisis and post-crisis situations. The meeting addressed challenges and promoted durable solutions for Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian persons displaced by the conflict in Kosovo, including those forcibly repatriated, largely by EU Member States. One of the roundtable’s main conclusions was that, despite efforts to support the return or local integration of these communities, much remains to be done on the ground to ensure viable conditions for sustainable return and integration. Other recommendations related to the need for universal access to civil-registration documents, for residence-registration solutions for Roma living in informal settlements, and for the legalization and improvement of the infrastructure of these settlements. The concluding report and recommendations from the roundtable are available on the ODIHR website. Improving Access to Education One of the focuses of Ministerial Council Decision No. 6/08, which was adopted in Helsinki in 2008 and called on OSCE participating States to enhance their activities to implement the Action Plan, was on promoting access to education for Roma and Sinti children, and early-childhood education in particular. To provide support for such efforts, ODIHR prepared a report on the