5 March, 2024, at 10 am
Panonska vas, Moravske Toplice
The project Promoting Roma Equality in Slovenia and Slovakia – PRESS, in which EPEKA Slovenia is a partner, is coming to an end in March.
The project aimed to promote and protect the rights of Roma facing discrimination by raising awareness among society and stakeholders, improving the implementation of anti-discrimination legislation and empowering Roma to seek legal aid in Slovakia and Slovenia.
In the last part of the project, together with Roma mediators on the ground, we recorded cases of discrimination against individual Roma women and men that occurred during the project period and, with the help of a lawyer, resolved them accordingly. We will report at least six of these to the Equality Defender.
As part of the PRESS project, we will, together with our partners, present the report Equality in access to justice: removing obstacles for Roma in exercising their rights in cases of discrimination, and we will also work with the Lendava People’s University to complete the H2O (Help to opportunities) project.
The presentation will take place on 5 March, 2024, at 10:00 in Panonska vas
(Panonska vas, Tešanovci 11 p, 9226 Moravske Toplice).
We are accepting applications for the event on this link. Please find the programme below. More information is available at www.epeka.si ali epeka@epeka.si.
Project partnership:
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) works with some 150 partners in more than 50 countries around the world to ensure that disadvantaged minorities and indigenous peoples, often the poorest of the poor, have a voice. Minorities, for which MRG is responsible, are defined as “disadvantaged ethnic, national, religious, linguistic or cultural groups that are smaller in number than the rest of the population and wish to preserve and develop their identity”.
The Centre for Civil and Human Rights (Counselling Centre) is a Slovak-based NGO focusing on the protection of human rights, with a particular emphasis on minority rights and protection against discrimination. It has long been working on the issue of discrimination against Roma in various areas of public life.
EPEKA, Soc. is an organisation active in the field of EU citizenship, EU values and intercultural dialogue, with branches in several European countries. It has a long-standing commitment to working with disadvantaged groups, both young people and adults, and to promoting the human rights of Roma in Slovenia.
The programme is funded by the European Union’s Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV).
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