Juridical aspects of non-discrimination in discussion in Strasbourg.
A new quest for efficiency ?
At the eve of the opening of the Conference on racism, and before officials' conclusions that were agreed beforehand are made public, the NGO's will try and bring into the light a number of issues that were not necessarily all on the governments' agenda. The specificity of the NGO's consists in their capacity to know and understand the daily reality of the victims of racism and similar form of discrimination, which is exactly what enables them to be the representatives of the will to give juridical instruments a growing efficiency.
Hopes and expectations of the first day
The D-day waited by quite some NGOs all around Europe has come - Forum for Non-Governmental organisations preceding European Conference on Racism started today in Strasbourg. Those who came here as well as those who stayed at home and follow the work of the Forum by Internet share quite different feelings. Some are waiting a lot from this rare opportunity to raise their voices against Racism on official European level, some are much more sceptical and fear a lot of paper work and no practical results.
Brief interview with Muriel Beck Kadima,
Delegate of the European Conference of Churches, Geneva
My expectations concerning the forthcoming conference is that the governments won't cut too much. They do not take serious that we are Europeans.
Interview with a danish participant for the NGOs Forum (Bashy Quraishy, Journalist and Minority Consultant)
(Archived, available on demand).
Migrants and Asylum Seekers,
At Stake for the NGO'S
The voices of the Asylum Seekers and Migrants at a European Level are to be heard at European Conference against Racism. Thanks to the NGO's which made this issue attain the level of significance it is to get in the time to come. Tomorrow, the meet at the European NGO level, will be crucial since the outcome of meeting are to be directly feed to the European Intergovernmental Conference and the UN Conference on Racism to happen by 2001.
Interview with austrian participants for the NGOs Forum from ANAR (Austrian Network against racism)
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