Romany

79. None of the Länder provides for tuition in Romany in their school legislation.

Dženo also works to preserve Romany culture and music through the publication of books and CDs.

The Berlin Broadcasting station SFB 4 Multikulti broadcasts two 15 minute programmes in Romany per month.

28. Street children in Bulgaria, most of them Romany, often fall prey to attacks by skinheads.

The observer for Finland said that the Education and Development Unit for the Romany Population had been operating since 1992 within the Finnish National Board of Education, with the task of developing inter alia the teaching of the Romany language.

72. On 9 February 1995 the Austrian Federal Chancellor visited the Romany camp in Oberwart and the victims apos families.

The whole of Austria expressed its solidarity with the families of the murdered men and the Romany ethnic group itself.

This is why Romany as a mother tongue is mainly maintained as a spoken language within the family and the ethnic group.

One example during the 1980s was the use of Romany children brought from the territory of the former Yugoslavia to Italy to carry out burglaries

15. A project on Romany children and the juvenile justice system, which will include Italy, France and Hungary, is expected to be completed in 1997.

80. The use of Romany in the public school system is therefore limited to pilot projects for (foreign) Roma children who live close to each other.

78. Supporting the Pralipe theatre in Mühlheim on the Ruhr which performs its plays in Romany is one of the long term projects of the Land Northrhine Westphalia.

The considerable geographical dispersion of Sinti and Roma even in urban agglomerations would also make the introduction of special classes where Romany would be taught (close to) impossible.

Children belonging to the Romany minority in Finland had been able to learn their mother tongue in a number of schools where a group of five or more children so requested.

541. Teaching of their native languages, as well as geography and history, for the German, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Romany and, recently, Kashubian and Jewish national minorities is carried out in Poland.

62. At about 7.30 a.m. on 5 February 1995 the partly mutilated bodies of four members of the Romany were found not far from the town of Oberwart (Federal Province of Burgenland).

In 1993, the population was estimated at 10.5 million, of whom 81.2 per cent are Czech, 13.2 per cent Moravian, 3.1 per cent Slovak and the rest Polish, German, Silesian, Romany and Hungarian.

Concerning the segregated classes for Roma children, she asked whether they were taught in Romany or in Croatian, and asked how the Government intended to integrate the Roma pupils back into the broader educational system.

104. The Committee notes with great concern the growth in the number of acts of discrimination and racism against foreigners in Spain, particularly directed at groups from North Africa, asylum seekers, illegal workers and the Romany (Gypsy) population.

111. The Committee urges the Government to take all appropriate preventive and penal measures to combat effectively all forms of racial discrimination, which particularly affects groups from North Africa, asylum seekers, illegal workers and the Romany (Gypsy) population.

The Government of Serbia noted that the requests of members of the Muslim, Romany, Turkish and other minorities and ethnic communities living in Kosovo and Metohija to take part in the political dialogue are legitimate, and those requests have been accepted.

Some of those minorities have started to realize their educational rights only recently (the German minority in 1991, after the ratification of The Good Neighbourhood and Friendly Cooperation Treaty with Germany the Romany minority, as a pilot experiment, since 1992 the Jewish minority since 1994).

In its concluding observations on Spain (E C.12 1 Add.2), the Committee urged the Government to take all appropriate preventive and penal measures to combat effectively all forms of racial discrimination which affects, inter alia, groups from North Africa and the Romany population.

The attack on a Romany community in the Curtes Ages district on 12 and 14 June 1996 is an example one house is said to have been set ablaze and five others damaged by a group of people from the district in full view of the police.

As for other groups such as the Sami and the Romany, they shall have the right to maintain and develop their own languages and cultures and provisions governing the right of the Sami to use the Sami language before the public authorities shall be prescribed by Act of Parliament (sect. 14).

Out of the 12,000 pupils that do not fulfil that obligation, 7,000 have the obligation postponed beyond the normal time, 3,100 are exempt from the obligation to attend school and 1,900 children (0.04 per cent) who are subject to this obligation fail to fulfil it for no good reason (some of them are Romany children).

On account of the abuse of so called scientific research on this ethnic group including the Romany language at the time of national socialism and the consequent genocide of the Sinti and Roma the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma is of the opinion that the language is to be passed on solely within the ethnic group and not to be taught or learnt by outsiders in the State education system.