8 April, 2020
Online report launch
President of the Association EPEKA, Soc. Ent., Štefan Simončič, attended an online report launch.
Many Roma communities of Central and Eastern Europe experience systematic environmental racism as one aspect of their exclusion from the mainstream population. It pushes them out into marginal and polluted lands and neighbourhoods, and deprives them of access to basic environmental services and public utilities. On April 8th, report was presented.
The report is a result of a joint collaboration of the European Environmental Bureau, European Roma Grassroots Organisations (ERGO) network, the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) and the Environmental Justice Atlas.
AGENDA
10:00 – 10:05 Introduction & Welcome
Patrizia Heidegger, Director Global Policies and Sustainability, EEB
10:05 – 10:10 Short welcoming remarks
Jamen Gabriela Hrabanova, Executive Director, ERGO Network
10:10 – 10:25 Presentation of findings of report on environmental racism against Roma
Patrizia Heidegger, Director Global Policies and Sustainability, EEB
Katy Wiese, Policy Assistant Economic and Environmental Justice, EEB
10:25 – 10:35 Presentation of case studies
Ciprian Nodis, Independent Researcher
Mustafa Asanovski, Independent Researcher (TBC)
10:35 – 11:00 Q&A
Moderated by Patrizia Heidegger, Director Global Policies and Sustainability, EEB
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 11:45 Breakout sessions
11:45 – 12:00 Summary and closure
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