Minority Health and Rights Workshop

OSI's Roma Health Project convened a workshop entitled “Minority Health and Rights” during the European Public Health Association’s 2008 annual conference in Lisbon.

The workshop, moderated by Roma Health Project consultant Tamsin Rose, raised awareness within the broader public health community of the health and human rights of minorities in an expanding Europe, with a focus on specific challenges faced by Roma in accessing health services.

Roma Health Project partners and grantees the European Roma Rights Center (Hungary), Center Amalipe for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance (Bulgaria), and the National Roma Centrum (Macedonia) shared with participants concrete examples of their work around coercive sterilization of Romani women, involving Roma in national health programs, and advancing Romani women’s health.

To find out more about the objectives and outcomes of the European Public Health Association conference, please visit www.eupha.org/site/past_conference_2008.php.