report on the Roma Women's Forum, Budapest, Hungary, June 29, 2003
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Contributor
- Vasic, Slavica
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- Roma- en Sintivrouwen, overheidsbeleid, onderwijs, empowerment, mensenrechten, politieke participatie, Europa, congresverslag
- Description
- Report on the Roma Women's Forum that brought together more than 100 Romani activists, donors, international human rights activists, and government representatives from Central and European Europe as well as from Western Europe and the United States. The Romani women presented their own policy agenda, discussed issues of concern to Romani women, such as equal access to quality education for girls, forced sterilazation, violence against women, early marriage, sexual taboos, access to health care, and Romani women's political participation. They also developed recommendations for policymakers on: education: economic empowerment: sexual and reproductive rights: grassroots, leadership and political participation.