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More than 120 participants – representatives of institutions from the countries included in the Decade of Roma Inclusion, Roma NGOs, the European Commission and international organizations – took part in the conference “Improving Access to Housing for Roma”. It took place in Prague from February 2 to 4. The conference was organized by the Decade of Roma Inclusion Secretariat, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Open Society Institute and the Government Office of the Czech Republic. The aim of the conference was to ensure that housing...

On 25 and 26 February 2011 in complex “Bryasta” was held the first meeting of the Steering Committee under the project "To touch the untouchable: combating traditional and new anti-Roma stereotypes” funded by the European Commission under Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme. The meeting was attended by representatives of institutions and NGOs from the country and abroad, working with Roma communities and directly related to the project realization. Together with the project partners - Center Amalipe (Bulgaria), "Justice and Peace”...

  Annual meeting of Roma Health Scholarship Program (RHSP) partners took place in Budapest on 17-18 of March, 2011. The main purpose of that annual event is taking stock of achievements and looking ahead to challenges and perspectives. The Roma Health Scholarship Program conducted by the Roma Education Fund (REF) based in Hungary and Open Society Institute (OSI) has been expanding in the past few years. In the beginning it was only Romania working on the program, then Bulgaria joined and now Serbia and Macedonia are part of the program that supports students of Roma...

  The city holiday of Veliko Turnovo March 22nd - the beginning of the spring, which has always been related to the beginning of new life is intentionally called season of love that brings lots of emotions and expectations for the young people. Thousands of people participate in the annual street parade that runs through the whole city on that date and is prerequisite to meet many new people. We also relate the beginning of the spring to the love emotions and abreast with that we remind the young people to be responsible about their sexual and reproductive health. For...

  On March 18, on the web page of "Structural Funds" Directorate of the Ministry of Education, youth and science (MEYS) the list of approved projects under program 4.1.03 "Integration of children and students from ethnic minorities in the educational system" was published. The list can be found at: http://sf.mon.bg/4.1.03_List% 20Contracts.pdf. Two things appear to be very disturbing reading the list: 1. The approved projects are only 48 out of 417 submitted. The total amount of money awarded is 7.5 million BGN. At the same the Monitoring Committee of OP HRD has approved...