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Emancipation of Roma women - in the mainstream society and within Roma community - is the most important prerequisite for overcoming the patriarchal practices such as early and forced marriages. This process must be supported by strengthening the social work at grass-root level in the Roma community, the application of innovative approaches to mobilize and involve local Roma communities (including support for the educated and successful Roma and their commitment to community problems) and establishing cooperation between institutions working in the Roma community and Roma...

The seventh meeting of the Monitoring Committee of Operational Program "Human Resources Development" was held on 30 November and 1 December in Sofia. It was attended by representatives of DG Employment of the European Commission, the Minister of EU funds Tomislav Donchev, over 70 representatives of the Managing Authority Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, the Inter-mediate bodies Ministry of Education, Employment Agency and Agency for social protection and of all institutions involved in the implementation of the Program, and observers from five groups of NGOs....

Do the EU funds contribute for Roma integration in Bulgaria and how this can happen even in the current programming period? These issues were discussed by  representatives of the European Commission, the Bulgarian government, the embassies of U.S., France, Finland and the Netherlands, also by national and international NGOs during the National Forum "Structural Funds and Roma integration”. The event was organized by Center Amalipe and the Open Society Institute - Sofia under the patronage of the Minister for EU funds in Bulgaria Tomislav Donchev. The...

The 3rd European Public Health Conference organized by EUPHA took place in Amsterdam from November 10th to 13th. It gathered more than 1600 participants from around the world. Following the tradition established already during the previous conferences the Public health program of OSI together with EUPHA supported the participation of Roma activists from Eastern Europe in the poster and workshop sessions. Moreover, a special workshop focusing on closing the Roma health gap was additionally held on November 13. The workshop ‘Closing the health gap:addressing inequalities...

From 7th to 9th of November 2010 Center Amalipe held three-day workshop - training, attended by 28 base teachers working on the project "Prevention of Roma children drop out from school, funded by "America for Bulgaria" Foundation. The main target of the meeting was to plan the work in the pilot schools project and how mentoring teachers can help pilot schools overcome the removal of students. Focus of the training was sharing the experience of U.S. schools on educational integration of various minority groups. Traditionally, the workshop began with interesting...