Roma Children In Slovakia

EDM number 481 in 2007-08, proposed by Diane Abbott on 05/12/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Eastern Europe, Ethnic groups and Human rights.

That this House is troubled by Amnesty International's report on the educational plight of Roma or Gypsy children in Slovakia; notes that Roma children are barred from attending certain schools on the grounds that they are `not clean enough' or will cause the school to `lose all the white children'; further notes the Open Society Institute's findings that a Roma child is 28 times more likely than a Slovak child to be sent to schools for children with learning difficulties where classes are also segregated; condemns the continuing persecution of the Roma community in central and eastern Europe; and calls on the Government, through the Committee of Ministers, to ensure that the Slovakian government's education policy observes the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights and abolishes segregated schools and classes.

This motion has been signed by a total of 38 MPs.