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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
e full draft of this report was prepared by the European Roma Rights Centre, on the
basis of a larger field report compiled by the Open Society Institute’s Roma Participation
Program (RPP). RPP compiled the larger report on the basis of mission reports drafted by
the following organisations:
Ø European Roma Rights Centre
Ø Open Society Institute
Ø Romani Criss
Ø Roma Civic Alliance in Romania
Ø Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
e following Italian NGOs and independent activists provided invaluable assistance
and support in the organisation and undertaking of the Coalition’s mission:
Ø OsservAzione;
Ø Community of Sant’Egidio;
Ø Sucar Drom;
Ø Piero Colacicchi;
Ø Dijana Pavlovic;
Ø Eva Rizzin; and
Ø Marco Brazzoduro.
e Open Society Institute provided financial support for the mission.
is report provides a concise update on racism and discrimination against Roma in
Italy following the February 2008 publication of a comprehensive report addressing the
same issues by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), the Centre on Housing Rights
and Evictions, osservAzione and Sucar Drom. 1 According to the documentation conducted
around Italy in late May 2008 by the Open Society Institute, the ERRC, the Centre on
Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), Romani Criss and the Roma Civic Alliance in
Romania, the human rights situation of Roma in Italy again deteriorated in the ensuing
period and expressions of racism and xenophobia have translated into policy and legal acts
targeting Roma only.
1 Available on the ERRC website at: http://www.errc.org/cikk.php?cikk=2932=#ERRC/COHRE/
osservAzione/Sucar.
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