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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