Full Coverage: Social exclusion

28.07.2006 The Mjaft London Club strongly protests an article published by The Sunday Times, "The Land that Time Forgot", for the national, ethnic and racial prejudices it promotes against Albania, Albanians and the large diaspora all over the world.

18.07.2006 Members of Parliament (MPs) in Kathmandu today slammed the government for apathy towards giving citizenship to Madhesi people or to children whose mothers are foreigners’ wives even after the declaration of the House.

14.07.2006 The Soros Fundation, in cooperation with the Albanian Helsinki Committee and the Children’s Human Rights Centre in Albania – CRCA, organized today the seminar “The implementation of the National Strategy for improving of Roma’s conditions in Albania,” at the Tirana International Hotel. The seminar aimed to raise public awareness and to inform the interested parties about the results of ongoing monitoring of the National Strategy for Roma.

12.07.2006 On the occasion of July 13, Montenegrin national holiday, the Roma Scholarship Foundation (RSF) demanded from President Filip Vujanovic to do everything in his power to initiate a more efficient implementation of the Montenegrin Action Plan for the Decade of Roma Inclusion.

11.07.2006 Mrs. Frederique de Man, the Dutch Ambassador to Macedonia, and Vladimir Milcin, the Executive Director of Foundation Open Society Institute (FOSIM), signed an agreement for cooperation and implementation of “Equal Education Opportunities for Roma Children” project. Mabera Kamberi, Senior Advisor at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies and coordinator of Governments Programme under the Roma Inclusion Decade, was also present at the signing ceremony.

11.07.2006 The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) assessed the 2006 Parliamentary Elections as successfully conducted. ECMI’s assessment was based on the reports submitted by the 26 accredited election monitors, who observed both the election campaigns and the ballot day activities.

07.07.2006 The South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO) has published the book, titled "Media and Minorities in South East Europe." The book includes reports on the media of ethnic minorities in 17 countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Kosovo, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.

06.07.2006

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Parts of All India Institute of Medical Sciences hostels are turning into SC/ST ghettos. Reserved category students said they were being “hunted out of the remaining rooms” by upper-caste students and driven to two floors of the hostels.

05.07.2006 More than 166 million of India's one billion plus population belong to the scheduled castes or socially marginalized groups, an official statement Tuesday said.