Rudko Kawczynski, President of the European Roma and Travellers Forum, will use his speech to the Parliamentary Assembly to detail “systemic” anti-Roma racism and will urge parliamentarians to add their voices to the forces for change.
Josette Durrieu, the assembly’s rapporteur for post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, offered the advice that revision would strengthen free speech, at the end of her fact-finding visit to Turkey.
Panos Kakaviatos looks at how the organisation has been making headlines and previews the human rights week ahead.
The week-long event, now in its eighth year, brings together 51 young people from conflict and post-conflict zones in Europe and the Middle East. It is hoped that face to face contacts will help them to recognise points of common interest and help overcome their prejudice and stereotypes.
In today’s ‘Comment’ article, the Commissioner for Human Rights writes that laws banning information about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and inter-sex (LGBTI) issues mark a “worrying step back towards a bygone era when homosexuals were treated like criminals.”
