Interview with Mary Robinson - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
An exclusive interview for ICARE during the European Conference Against Racism 'All Different, All Equal: from principle to Practice', Strasbourg, 11-13 October, 2000.
Interviewer: Hosla Jiwa (ENAR).
Questions prepared by Mellouki Cadat (Magenta) and Hosla Jiwa.
Direction and videowork: Mellouki Cadat.
Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France), Thursday, 12 october 2000.
Retranscription of the interview: click here.



Policies and practices to combat racism and related discrimination at local and national level
Report from the Working Group 2 , Wednesday, 11 Oct 2000
Policies and practices to combat racism and related discrimination at local and national level were discussed among governmental and non-governmental representatives. Lots of issues and motion for amendments of the final general conclusions were raised.



Education and awareness-raising to combat racism, related discrimination and extremism at sub-national, national, regional and international levels
Working group III ,Wednesday, 11 October 2000
The topic which was already discussed on the NGO Forum' workshop and was highlighted in our previous review, this time was brought to the level of European Conference and will be a subject of discussion of settled working group for one more day. It was decided to concentrate today on the Context of Racism and its Contemporary forms, on History and Everyday Racism in the relation with Education. After several starting presentations, the participants had an opportunity to contributes



Declaration for anti-discrimination legislation and a fair migration policy in the council of Europe countries
Strasbourg, 10 - 13 October 2000



LAST NEWS OF THE CONFERENCE.

Conference of the NGO's in Warsaw from November 14 to 18th! The details of the regional NGO meeting for Eastern and Central Europe have been released. It will take place in Warsaw from 14-18 November 2000. Contact, Mr. Marek Nowicki, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, at jacques@hfhrpol.waw.pl. This meeting is one of four regional NGO meetings organised by the UN intended to feed into the NGO Forum.

A complete Article will be published as soon as we lay out of more than details.

Link to program of the Warshaw Meeting: In English     In Russian
Link to application form: In English     In Russian
Link to general Information: In English     In Russian


Report of working group: Information, Communication and Media
Thursday, 12 october 2000, morning session
This working group was chaired by Mrs. Beate Winkel. She asked to the participants to come up with concrete ideas, proposals and good practices to finalize the draft General Conclusions. She pointed out the fact that it is possible to influence the general conclusions, although they are more or less finalized. In a way she apologized for the frustration that might occur from this...



Warsaw 15-18 November: Do not miss it!
Interview with Jacqueline Kacprzak (JK), delegate of the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights which organizes the meeting of NGOs from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) on the 15-18 November 2000 in Warsaw towards the World Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCR) By Miroslav Prokes from Duha, Czechia.



Opinion on the conference.
NGO's between cooperation and confrontation.
By: Doros Polycarpou



Opinion on the european conference
Ngo's: the fight against racism goes on!
By: Iannis Konstantis, Elina Stamou, Doros Polycarpou





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