Group wants desegregation of Gypsy children in Macedonia schools
Hindus
have asked for immediate desegregation of Roma (Gypsy) pupils in Macedonia
schools.
Hindu
statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that reportedly
such a large percentage of Roma children in ‘special needs’ schools meant for
learning-disabled pupils was highly unacceptable. Reportedly discriminatory
segregation policies of Roma children must end immediately and they should be
placed in mainstream schools, Zed added.
Zed,
who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, also stressed the need of
social inclusion of Roma in Macedonia,
improvement in their dire living conditions, immediate end to their
marginalization and ethnic profiling and addressing of their statelessness issue.
Macedonia
should show firm commitment and strong political will to improve the Roma
plight.
Rajan
Zed applauded Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks
for speaking out for human rights of Roma and their social cohesion in Macedonia and
asking the authorities to address these, at the end of a recent four-day visit
to the country.
Zed
further said that despite seven years into high-flown “Decade of Roma Inclusion
2005–2015” initiative, Roma people of Europe
still reportedly lived in apartheid like conditions. Concrete steps were
immediately needed to improve their plight, whose traces in Europe
went back to ninth century CE, and who continued to face human rights
violations and brazen structural discrimination. It was simply immoral to let
this around 15-million population of Europe
continually suffer.
Rajan
Zed pointed out that European Roma reportedly regularly faced racism,
substandard education, hostility, social exclusion, joblessness, rampant
illness, inadequate housing, lower life expectancy, unrest, living on desperate
margins, language barriers, stereotypes, mistrust, rights violations,
discrimination, marginalization, appalling living conditions, prejudice, human
rights abuse, racist slogans on Internet, etc.
Dr.
Gjorge Ivanov and Nikola Gruevski are President and Prime Minister respectively
of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; a mountainous landlocked country with
extensive wilderness known for Mavrovo National Park, Sveti Naum monastery,
culturally-rich town of Ohrid, etc.
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