Lea la declaración de la Relatora Raquel Rolnik en la conferencia «Improving Access to Housing for Roma: Good Local Practices, Funding and Legislation», que ocurrió en Praga, el día 2 de Febrero.
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Statement by Ms. Raquel Rolnik, Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Conference on Improving Access to Housing for Roma: Good Local Practices, Funding and Legislation.
Prague: 24 February 2011
Deputy Minister of Regional Development, Representative of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Director of the Open Society Foundation, Friends and colleagues involved in advocating, planning, lobbying and trying to face the challenge to promote real results on the ground within the framework of the decade for Roma inclusion.
It is a real honour for me to participate in this Conference organized by the Decade for Roma Inclusion (2005-2015) under the current Presidency of the Czech Republic and the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).
In my tasks as Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, I have seen truly inhuman situations in different parts of the world, but one of the situations that struck me the most (and surprised me) is to see Roma settlements and neighborhoods in worse conditions than in other settlements for disadvantaged groups in Latin America,Africa or Asia, within Europe!! This comes to me as a surprise for several reasons.
First because we are talking about countries that have been the source of most of the human rights spread up today to the world – not only in their legal regimes but also in all their policies that (at least once) believed in the idea of universality of these principles.
Second, because, being a visitor to Europe, (before assuming my mandate) Roma were highly invisible in the public sphere, not an issue discussed in the political area nor seen in the very fabric of cities and villages. It is not just a coincidence that nobody I asked could then tell me how many Roma people lived in Europe or how many among them were living in harsh conditions. – it has been very little attention for a question that exists for a very long time and it is such an important human rights issue.
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