Discours made by Mr Günter Grass



Incorporating European race directive in the national legislations
 Interview with Dr. Jan Niessen from the Migration Policy group.

(Archived, available on demand).



Education and awareness-raising to combat racism, related discrimination and extremism at sub-national, national, regional and international levels
Workshop 3 (10.10.2000)

The workshop leaded by Karima Zahi (Committee on the administration of Justice, Northern Ireland), Boris Pustintsev (Citizen Watch, Russia) and Niki Roubani (European Network of Women, Greece) was aimed to clear up how far can we influence the governments on the topics of the workshop, by which means can be reached the mentioned awareness, how to integrate anti-racist education into professional education (so that anti-racist approach becomes one of the necessary skills of each teacher), gender perception, Children Human Right and celebration of diversity on all the levels.



Report from the NGO Forum plenary meeting on Wednesday, 11 Oct 2000
The amendments in the Draft Report from the NGO Forum made by the NGO Resource Group according to motions put by the participants were presented and discussed. The final text should be available in a few days. Good examples of practices were then explained: combating racism and exploitation of foreign workers in Spain, involving Russian administrative and law-enforcement bodies into programmes countering racism, strategiesfor improving the situation of black communities in Great Britain and a framework programme for equal integration of Roma in the Bulgarian society. Mary ROBINSON, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, welcomed the NGO Forum.



European NGOs Welcomes Criticism From UN High Commissioner Mary Robinson About 'Fortress Europe'
Press release
The United Nations European Preparatory meeting on Racism invited over 200 European NGOs to participate in a dialogue and make preparations for the World Conference Against Racism in South Africa, August 2001.




Interview with Koen De Mesmaeker, EU Networks on Integration of Refugees, Belgium
Koen is the Coordinator of the EU Networks on Integration. When questioned about the recommendations he responded that the revised NGOs draft recommendations have covered all their concerns. Important of those are the Labour rights, Education and, Gender and juvenile rights. They have been adequately emphasised. "I believe that nothing much will change after the conference, however what is of importance is that the NGOs fighting for this cause are gathering here. This is a source of power to find solutions to this problem. More effort is needed now so that the NGOs can achieve better success after the conference."



Migrants, ethnical minorities and the media : the Internet resources.
A general view of the main european websites From the Council of Europe to Radio Voices without borders, there are numerous organisations that give information specifically related to media and minorities to the public through the Internet. Since the beginning of the 90's there is a real european awareness. European mass-media have an essential impact on the perception by the public opinion on etnical minorities and immigrants...



Funny conference!
It is amazing what kind of realities you can encounter at this conference. This conference aims to make the clearest recommendations to the governments in order to put an end to racism. But about what kind of racism are we talking?





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