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World Bank publishes “Being Fair, Faring better, promoting equal opportunities for Marginalized Roma”, a book denouncing the unequal situation that Roma community face in the access to education, labor market and in their living conditions.

03/02/2016

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World Bank publishes “Being Fair, Faring better” Promoting Equal opportunities for Marginalized Roma”. The report shows how the Roma community, the most excluded in Europe, still facing disadvantaged situation in the access to education or employment. This disadvantage in the living conditions is even more severe in the Eastern Europe.

The book is divided into three parts:

  • The first part focuses on equal opportunities for Roma children, underlining the disadvantaged situations that Roma children face when  born in poor environments, with low educative profile parents or limited access to basic goods and services such as education, water or sanitary services: these factors are crucial for a latter successful and productive life.
  • The second part addresses equal opportunities regarding the Roma community in education and access to the labor market , as well as the living conditions. This part of the study highlights the importance of the early school access as a means for the latter educative success for Roma pupils. It also remarks the role of the permanence within the educative system for the post compulsory stages as a way to have chances to access to the labor market. In this sense, the book reveals the low level of inclusion in the labor market of the Roma community as well as the high level of precariousness. The unemployment level that young Roma and Roma women suffer are the main barriers in the access to the social inclusion.
  • The third part addresses the political responses to tackle the social inequality l that Roma are facing. Among the measures to address this social inequality situation, the document proposes to reinforce the role of social workers; to coordinate Member states´ measures to reach the local level and collect rigorous data of the real situation of the Roma community as a means to help breaking the negative stereotype and myths and also get the best of the European funds for the social inclusion of most disadvantaged.

Full document: https://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2016/01/27/090224b084103a5f/2_0/Rendered/PDF/Being0fair00fa0or0marginalized0Roma.pdf 
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