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DECLARATION OF REPRESENTATIVES OF ROMANY NGOs,
POLITICAL PARTIES, ROMANY INTELECTUALS AND ROMA SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
REGARDING DEPORTATION OF ROMA FROM FRANCE
EU’s Commissar for justice and citizen’s rights
(Vivien Reding)
Since French authorities, based on the decision of of president Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, deprived hospitality to hundreds of Roma with origins from Romania and Bulgaria and brought decision to deport them to mother countries Bulgaria and Bulgaria, by which president Sarkozy violated Law about free movement of citizens, on 4th September 2010 across the Europe will be held protests of solidarity of Roma. Sarkozy planed, incited, ordered, committed or on other way supported and assisted planning, preparing and executing that his police with violation of usage of force, on the footways and dust of Paris’s suburb La Coumeuve (region San-Deni on Sena) lingered, dragged, stretched, pushed and kicked, amongst others, overly women, and amongst them even some with children in armful, others with progeny in stomach or helpless old men. Therefore, we consign to you our declaration ahead of Romany NGOs, representatives of political parties, Romany intellectuals and Roma Solidarity Movement, with hope that it will help in stopping of drastic violations of human rights of Roma and remind on obligations of EU’s countries regarding respect of all ratified conventions, declarations and resolutions.
PROPOSAL OF DECLARATION
Starting from the:
Declaration of OUN about the rights of members of national, ethnical, religious and lingual minorities from 18th December 1999, and a fact that in Europe currently live around 15.000.000 members of Romany community;
With wish,
to develop and realize principles from the UN’s Charter, Universal declaration about human rights, Convention about prevention and abolition of genocide’s crimes, International convention about abolition of all forms of racial discrimination, International pact about citizen’s and political rights, International pact about economic, social and political rights, Declaration about abolition of all forms of intolerances and discrimination based on the religion or believes, Convention about rights of children and other relevant international instruments which have been adopted on the global or regional level or those concluded between individual countries members of the UN, European Convention about human rights (with addition of Protocol nr. 11), as well to create our future by ourselves and to confirm that all people are equal and same, regardless their religion, gender, race or nation,
Inspired with provisions of clause 27 of International pact about citizen’s and political rights in regard of the rights of members of ethnical, religious or lingual minorities, final documents of KEBS / Helsinki 1975/ and conferences which, while continuing to further principles of KEBS develop individual rights and rights of national collectives;
Assured,
that fundamental rights of every man will be realized and that dignity and values of human personality represent the greatest democratic legatees, and by that it will be related also to the members of Romany national minority across the world, with appliance of OUN’s Charter and decisions of all other European and international organizations in the area of human rights and freedoms – as initiators of initiative for protests of solidarity of Roma, we appeal on all Romany NGOs and political organizations, as well on Romany intellectuals across the world, to accede signing of Declaration of representatives of Romany NGOs, political parties and Romany intellectuals regarding deportation of Roma from France.
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF ROMANY NATIONAL MINORITIES SHOULD BE:
- Right on protection which is provided by the state: from prosecution, violent evictions or dislocations, as well on protection from the policy which would aspire to the violent changes of national and ethnical composition of population in damage of minority and its members;
- Right on special legal mechanisms against legal provisions with whom would be discriminated minority or its members, and especially against those provisions with whom would be maintained or abolished their acquired rights;
- Right on affiliation of members into social and political organizations;
- Right to be represented in all bodies of authority, comparatively to its number in specific area;
- Right on establishing radio and television organizations, as well as right on establishing news-publishing institutions;
- Right on expression, preserve, development and conveyance of national, ethnical, cultural, religious and lingual specialty as a part of tradition;
- Right on establishing of special cultural, artistic and scientific institutions and associations, including right on establishing foundations for material support for these institutions and associations;
- Right on emphasis of name of place and other captions on Romany language in the areas in which in greater number live members of our national minority;
- Right to use our language and letter in official usage in the areas in which in greater number live members of our national minority;
- Right on usage and emphasis of traditional signs and symbols;;
- Right on notation and celebration of significant dates, events and persons from its tradition and history;
Right on establishing and maintaining relations with minority’s communities in other countries.
OBLIGATIONS OF EU’s COUNTRIES
- While claiming that Roma across the Europe suffer persisting prejudges, that they are victims of racism which is deeply rooted in society, that they are target of sometimes violent evincing of racism and intolerance, and that its basic rights are regularly violated or jeopardized;
- Also while claiming that persistent prejudges against Roma lead towards their discrimination in man y areas of social and economic life, and that such form of discrimination is a main factor in the process of social exclusion which is hitting many Roma, we recommend to governments of countries of South-eastern and Central Europe following:
- To sign and ratify relevant international legal instruments in the area of suppressing racisms, xenophobia, anti-tziganisms and intolerance, and especially Framework Convention for protection of national minorities and European Charter about regional or minority’s languages;
- To ensure that adequate legislations is fighting against discrimination as such, as well against discriminator’s practices, and that in that sense special provisions should be brought into the citizen’s right, especially on the field of employment, habitation and education;
- To proclaim as illegal any discrimination which is performed from side of state’s authority during perform of its obligations;
- To ensure that there is provided adequate legal assistance to Roma who have been victims of discrimination and who want to initiate a legal procedure;
- To undertake required measures so that full and quick realization of justice could be ensured in the cases which are related to the violation of fundamental rights of Roma;
- To especially ensure that non-punishment isn’t tolerated in any measure related to the offences executed against Roma and that this should be put on knowledge for wide publicity;
- To undertake necessary steps to be ensured that rules which are referred to de jure and de facto accessibility of citizenship and right on asylum be created and realized so that they don’t lead towards special discrimination of Roma;
- To adopt and realize national strategies and programs and evince firm political will and normal leadership in view of improvement of position of Roma and their protection against discrimination from side of state’s bodies, as well from any person or organization;
- To undertake all necessary measures so that any form of discrimination against immigrants or asylum seekers of Romany origin could be avoided;
- To strive to, while encouraging true dialogue, also consult other relevant resources, improve relations between Romany communities and non-Romany communities, especially on the local level, for sake of promotion of tolerance and surpass of prejudges and negative stereotypes from both sides, then securing that everybody enjoy completely human rights and freedoms;
- To admit genocide’ crime committed during the World War II against Romany community and perform war reparation to Romany community;
- To support activities of nongovernment organizations, which play significant role in the fight against racism and intolerance towards Roma, and which especially secure to them required legal assistance;
- To encourage Romany organizations to play more significant role for sake of strengthening citizenship’s society.
Annotation: we will also send this declaration to:
1. Ban Ki-moon, General Secretary of UN,
Permanent members of Council of security of UN:
2. Barack Obama, president of USA;
3. Dmitrij Anatoljevich Medvedev, president of Russian Federation;
4. Hu Jintao, president of China;
5. Robert Walpole, first president of the government of United Kingdom;
6. Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France.
European officials:
1. Mevlüt Çavusoglu, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe;
2. Thorbjorn Jagland, General Secretary of European Parliament;
3. Jerzy Buzek, president of the European Parliament;
4. Thomas Hammarberg, commissar for human rights of Council of Europe;
5. Gabriella Habtom, general secretary of Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
International organizations:
· European Roma Information Office (ERIO);
· European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC);
· Open Society Institute (OSI);
· Project on Ethnic Relations (PER);
· European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR);
· Steering Committee for Education (CDED);
· Committee of Experts on Issues relating to the Protection of National Minorities (DH-MIN);
· Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities;
· Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages;
· International Organization for Migration (IOM);
· Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe / Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR);
· United Nations Development Program (UNDP);
· United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR);
· World Bank.
We invite you to become signer of this Declaration.
DECLARATION OF REPRESENTATIVES OF ROMANY NGOs, POLITICAL PARTIES, ROMANY INTELLECTUALS AND ROMA SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT REGARDING DEPORTATION OF ROMA FROM FRANCE
