PROJECT ON ETHNIC RELATIONS

Discrimination in the media is a provoking subject.i?1 Present to discuss it were: on one side the Roma minorityâ??s representatives and on the other one the journalists. In the middle, PER Regional Center and the National Council of Audiovisual.i?1 The result was a debate where the Roma said that sometimes the press discriminates, and the journalists opined that in principle they reflect the reality.

” How can professionalism protect the media against the outside pressures?â?? â??What can the journalists do to improve the ethical standards, especially during periods of social conflicts?â?? â??What is the role of journalistsâ?? unions and associations and of the editorial corporations?â?? â??What formative, editorial and engagement standards are still missing?â?? These are part of the questions, to which the participants tried to find some answers during the roundtable discussion on â??The Freedom of Expression and the Danger of Intolerance in Mass-Mediaâ?? Continua articolul

“Mainstream societies need to offer the Roma a real, practical chance to improve their perspectives.”(Manuel Barosso) Yet, despite the growing efforts by governments, international organizations, and civil society, very little has been achieved in terms of improving the housing, education, health and employment perspectives for Roma in Europe, which are the corner stones enabling full participation of the Romani community in society. Continua articolul

Preliminary Report

roundtable discussion organized by

The Project on Ethnic Relations (PER) Regional Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe,
PER in Princeton, New Jersey, USA
and the
European Parliament’s Intergroup on Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages

On May 7, 2008, the Project on Ethnic Relations (PER) Regional Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in Bucharest, PER in Princeton, New Jersey, USA and the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages organized a roundtable discussion entitled Towards a European Parliament Resolution on National Minorities in the European Union. The roundtable organized in the European Parliament, in Brussels brought together members of the European Parliament, representatives of EU institutions, Member State Governments, intergovernmental organizations and minority policy experts. The discussion was co-chaired by Livia B. Plaks, President of PER and Csaba Tabajdi, Chairman of the EP Intergroup for Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages. The key-note speakers of the roundtable were Attila MarkA3, Secretary of State of the Department for Interethnic Relations from Romania and Gabriel N. Toggenburg, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Minority Rights from Bolzano, Italy.
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Winter/Spring 2008 Bulletin

I. The competition is opened to all students from Romania and abroad, regardless of specialization, form of education or citizenship, individuals or teams.

II. The theme
The participants shall write a scientific paper (maximum length, 10 pages) in which they need to argument:
Why the diversity is or is not a further chance towards the future of Romania, Europe, Romanian citizens etc.
Why do we need to acknowledge the diversity?
How can we reach a higher level of accepting the diversity in the Romanian/European society?

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National Campaign promoting the knowledge and the acceptance of diversity

REPORT 2007

The polls made among young people from Romania show a very high degree of intolerance for cultural, ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity. The experience of the states, which joined EU shows the possibility that after EU accession this phenomenon might increase.

The European Union is actually a community of minorities, where knowing the other may be a vital resource for each person, but also an asset which gives the community a more powerful identity.

Based on the evaluations of the National Council of Audio Visual, the TV broadcasts, the Internet, the radio broadcasts, but also the â?oliveâ?? meetings, such as a contest, have the biggest impact on the civic behavior of the target group (young people between 10-30 years old).

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The Project on Ethnic Relations and its PER Regional Center for Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe based in Romania, invited a group of Serbiaâ??s minority council presidents, experts and senior parliamentarians to discuss the present situation of the minority councils in Serbia, the existing drafts for a new Serbian law on minority councils, and recommendations for improving the work of the councils and their effectiveness.

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