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Civil Society Monitoring Report on the Implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategy and Decade Action Plan in 2012 in Spain
The present report emphasises the significant advances that have been taking place in Spain since the late 1970s in terms of improving living conditions and promoting the social inclusion of Roma, a process facilitated by democratisation and the mobilisation of large sectors of civil society in favour of Roma inclusion, an expansive labour market from the late 1990s – which was built on labour intensive economic sectors and incorporated a significant number of Roma in remunerated ...
FSG as contributing author
Discrimination of Roma Communities Spain, Italy, Romania and Portugal National Report
As a result of the work carried out by the partners of the European project NET KARD during 2013, the reports on the situation of discrimination against the Roma community in the participating countries—Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Romania—have just been published in English. These reports also provide detailed information on the legal instruments available in each country to combat discrimination and, most notably, an analysis of the current barriers to the effective protection of ...
FSG as contributing author
The employment of vulnerable people: a smart social investment Assessment of the impact of the Multirregional Operational Programme Fight Against Discrimination
The Operational Programme to Fight againts Discrimination (OP), managed in Spain by 10 operators (including ONCE Foundation, Fundación Secretariado Gitano, Cáritas and the Red Cross), is an instrument co-financed by the European Social Fund that contributes to economic growth and social cohesion in Spain. Thanks to the actions of these operators and in close cooperation with the Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security, between 2006 and 2011, nearly 100 000 jobs were created in our ...
Annual Reports
FSG 2014 Annual Report
We present our "2014 Annual report (Summary Leaflet)" in digtal format www.gitanos.org/informeanual/2014More than 35000 Roma people got better living conditions thanks to FSG programs.The excellent 2014 results reveal that is possible get beeter living conditions to many people through employment and education access...
Annual Reports
FSG Annual Report 2015
We present the 2015 Annual Report featuring the most noteworthy results of our activities.The perfect time to share the impact of our work with the public administrations, organisations, companies, partners, volunteers, our team of professionals and all of the Roma who support our mission.Thank you! It is your trust that motivates us and makes it possible for all of us working together to help improve the lives of thousands of Roma and non-Roma people...
FSG as contributing author
Fair and Effective Police Stops Techincal report
This report is intended to serve as a reference for police leadership, public authorities, and legal professionals interested in operational innovations, including regulatory reform, data collection processes, and community engagement strategies, with the purpose of fostering positive police–community relations and enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of policing practices...
Annual Reports
FSG Annual Report 2016
We present the 2016 Annual Report featuring the most noteworthy results of our activities.The perfect time to share the impact of our work with the public administrations, organisations, companies, partners, volunteers, our team of professionals and all of the Roma who support our mission.Thank you! It is your trust that motivates us and makes it possible for all of us working together to help improve the lives of thousands of Roma and non-Roma people...
Annual Reports
FSG Annual Report 2017
We present the 2016 Annual Report featuring the most noteworthy results of our activities.The perfect time to share the impact of our work with the public administrations, organisations, companies, partners, volunteers, our team of professionals and all of the Roma who support our mission.Thank you! It is your trust that motivates us and makes it possible for all of us working together to help improve the lives of thousands of Roma and non-Roma people...
Working materials
The Covid-19 Crisis and Anti-Roma Hate Speech Analysis through case studies of the origins, dissemination and impact upon people
In the context of the social and healthcare crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the declaration of a State of Alarm in Spain, the Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) notes and deplores a large number of cases of stigmatisation perpetrated by the communications media and on occasion by political figures. These cases involve rumours and fake news stories which blame minority groups for the pandemic and its spread, or for violating the rules of quarantine, in alarmist language which links ...
Working materials
Checklist for the Effective Inclusion of Roma interventions within EU Cohesion Funds programming 2021-2027
Guidance for the Departments Responsible for Programming EU Cohesion Funds in the Member States and the EU. The EURoma Network, for which the Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) acts as Technical Secretariat, presents this document for those responsible for programming the European Funds to ensure that the measures to be implemented within the new 2021–2027 programming period have a real impact and effectively contribute to reducing the exclusion and discrimination faced by the Roma ...
Technical papers
Discrimination and the Roma Community. FSG Annual Report 2021 The impact of the pandemic on discrimination and antigypsyism
The total number of cases in this year’s report is 364, a drop of 58 on the previous year. The drop in cases is mostly because in 2020, the European Commission Code of Conduct did not perform a monitoring round on countering illegal hate speech online, which FSG has been participating in as a trusted flagger for the past six years. FSG usually reports more than 100 cases of anti-Roma hate speech in these monitoring rounds, which this year are absent from our report. However, we have ...
Technical papers
Evaluation of the results and impact of the Acceder Programme 2000-2020 Executive summary
This document is the executive summary of the evaluation of the results of the Acceder Programme run by Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG), covering the first 20 years of its implementation, from the year 2000 to 2019 inclusive...
Discrimination and the Roma Community. FSG Annual Reports FSG
As it has done every year since 2005, Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) is publishing its Annual Report “Discrimination and the Roma Community”, with the aim of offering some specific data and verified cases of discrimination that show that for many Roma people in this country, the right to equal treatment is not a reality...
Technical papers
Exploratory pilot study on school segregation of Roma students Executive summary
This executive summary provides a synthesis of the main results of a research study on the segregation of Roma pupils, carried out between January 2020 and July 2021, and culminating in the publication of the Exploratory pilot study on school segregation of Roma students1 by the Ministry of Education...
Technical papers
Discrimination and the Roma Community 2022 Discriminatory bias in the use of artificial intelligence and its impact on the Roma community.
The Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) presented its 18th Annual Report "Discrimination and the Roma Community". The focus of the report is the Discriminatory bias in the use of artificial intelligence and its impact on the Roma community.The report includes 554 cases of discrimination and antigypsyism reported and assisted by the FSG in 2021.The report's conclusions highlight the increase in Roma awareness of the discrimination they suffer, although there are still barriers that limit the ...
Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Roma population
Results of a survey of 11,000 participants in programmes organised by the Fundacion Secretariado Gitano...
Technical papers
Study of the characteristics and circumstances of people living in slum and substandard housing settlements in Spain Executive summary
Even in the second decade of the 21st century, Spain still faces a structural problem: the presence of slum and substandard housing settlements inwhich families live in situations of extreme vulnerability. The mere existence of these settlements represents a violation of basic rights, with a possible discriminatory element given the overrepresentation of certain social groups. The settlements’ continued existence also entrenches the situation of inequality and extreme poverty of their ...