Past Events
The Right to Education for Every Child: Removing Systemic Barriers to Full Integration of Roma Children
| Location: | Belgrade, Serbia |
| Event Date: | June 2, 2009 - June 3, 2009 |
This international conference will review the results achieved in improving Roma education during five years of the Decade of Roma Inclusion, and further elaborate the road map for ensuring the fulfillment of the universal right to quality education for Roma children beyond the Decade.
The conference will examine the importance of including children early in education; monitoring and ending segregation and sustaining integration; ensuring access and coverage in regular schooling; classroom
and school environment supportive to education quality and changes in financing education system to enable inclusion. There will be opportunity to learn from the state-of-the-art knowledge and exchange good practices and lessons learnt.
Each Roma Decade country is expected to be represented by five representatives including the Roma Decade national coordinators, senior Ministry of Education officals, education experts and practitioners, and relevant Roma NGO representatives. Invitations are being extended to delegates of Roma civil society, academics and researchers, international organizations, agencies concerned with social issues, and donors.
An outcome document, drafted prior to the conference, will be discussed, enriched by working group deliberations and adopted by the participants. The conference will include plenary sessions, thematic panels and parallel working groups.
The official conference languages will be English, Serbian, and Romanes with simultaneous interpretation provided. The organizers will cover the costs for the participants, i.e., accommodation and transportation.
More details on conference proceedings including the final conference agenda, list of participants, speakers and panelists and logistic information will be available shortly.
The event is sponsored by the Serbian ministries of human and minority rights and education, Fund for an Open Society-Serbia, Roma Education Fund, World Bank, and UNICEF.
