CAHROM (2019)21
Strasbourg, 21 June 2019
AD HOC COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS ON ROMA AND TRAVELLER[1] ISSUES (CAHROM)
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CAHROM THEMATIC VISIT ON NATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF ROMA SELF-RELIABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS ANY OTHER CITIZEN (EDUCATION, LABOUR MARKET, SPORTS ETC.)
CAHROM thematic visit to Kharkiv, Ukraine, on 25-27 June 2019
PROGRAMME
Day 1 – Tuesday, 25 June 2019
Venue: Building Legal club«PRAVOKATOR»
Kharkiv, Nauky Avenue, 77
9:00 – 9:30 Registration of participants
9:30 – 10:00 Welcome speeches
CHAIR: Nataliia TKACHENKO, Head of the Division for International Cooperation for National, Minorities Issues Department for Religion Affairs and Nationalities, Ministry of Culture of Ukraine
Valerie POPPE-MUESS, Project manager, Roma and Travellers Team, Directorate of Democratic Governance and Anti-Discrimination, Council of Europe
Welcome speech and brief introduction about the context, aims and objectives of CAHROM thematic visits/reports
Ihor Isaenko, Representative of Kharkiv Regional State Administration
10:00 - 10:30 Features of the processes of social adaptation in various spheres of social life - Ukrainian experience
Andrii YURASH, Director, Department for Religious Affairs and Nationalities, Ministry of Culture of Ukraine
Nataliia VARTSABIUK, Deputy Head, Kharkiv Regional Centre of Social Services for Family, Children and Youth
Mykola BURLUTSKYI
Head of Spiritually Educational Organization «CHACHYMO», Governor's Advisor on National Issues
10:30 – 11:15 Basic aspects of ensuring the rights of the Roma minority
Vadym MATIUSHENKO, President of Kharkiv National-Cultural Society "Romen", Ukraine
Ivan MATIUSHENKO, Roma's Youth NGO «BAKHTALE BERSHA»
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 13:15 Best European practices to support participation of Roma in various spheres of civic, educational, professional, public and social life
CHAIR: Nataliia TKACHENKO, Head of the Division for International Cooperation for National, Minorities Issues Department for Religion Affairs and Nationalities, Ministry of Culture of Ukraine
Zora POPOVA, Senior analyst, European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)
Enisa RAMADANOVIC, appointed expert, the Netherlands
Elzbieta MIRGA-WOJTOWICZ, appointed expert, Art Foundation Jaw Dikh, Poland
Discussions / Questions and Answers, Comments
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch
Offered by the host country upon invitation
(in the same building)
14:30 – 15:50 Best European practices to support participation of Roma in various spheres of civic, educational, professional, public and social life
Georgia PANAGIOTOU, appointed expert, Greece
Special Secretariat of Roma Social Inclusion, Ministry of Labour, Social Security & Social Solidarity
Ján HERO, CAHROM Member, Slovak Republic
Mersiha USEIN, appointed expert, North Macedonia
15:50 – 16:20 Coffee break
16:20 – 17:00 Discussions / Questions and Answers, Comments
Day 2 – Wednesday, 26 June 2019
09 :00 Meeting of the participants
Kharkiv Hotel
09:00-09:45 Bus transfer to Merefyan
9:45 – 13:30 Visit of Roma communities in the Kharkiv Region
(Merefyan united territorial community)
Meeting with Mykola BURLUTSKYI, Head of Spiritually Educational Organization «CHACHYMO», Governor's Advisor on National Issues and members of the Roma community
13:30 – 14:15 Bus transfer to Pravokator Legal Club
14:15 Lunch (meal offered by the host country)
Venue: Building Legal club«PRAVOKATOR»
Kharkiv, Nauki Avenue, 77
15:00 – 18:00 Basic aspects of ensuring the rights of the Roma minority
CHAIR: Nataliia TKACHENKO, Head of the Division for International Cooperation for National, Minorities Issues Department for Religion Affairs and Nationalities, Ministry of Culture of Ukraine
15:00 – 16:45 Valerie POPPE-MUESS, Project manager, Roma and Travellers Team, Directorate of Democratic Governance and Anti-Discrimination, Council of Europe
Zemfira KONDUR
Deputy Head, Interministerial Working Group for the realization of the National Action Plan for the implementation of the Strategy on Protection and Integration of the Roma National Minority into the Ukrainian Society until 2020 and the National Action Plan
16:45 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00 SerhiiPONOMAROV, International Renaissance Foundation
Eleonora LOLA, Romani Early Years Network (REYN)
Discussions / Questions and Answers
20.00 -22.00 Dinner offered by the host country
Jord Restaurant, Trinklera, 2, 61000 Kharkiv
Entertainment Roma artistic groups
Day 3 – Thursday, 27 June 2019
Venue: Building Legal club«PRAVOKATOR»
Kharkiv, Nauki Avenue, 77
Discussion, adoption of recommendations on the results of the visit. Conclusions.
CHAIR: Valerie POPPE-MUESS, Project manager, Roma and Travellers Team, Directorate of Democratic Governance and Anti-Discrimination, Council of Europe
9:30 – 11:15 Debriefing session among experts of the thematic group
- Clarifications, lessons learnt, identification of good practices, conclusions and possible follow-up, structure of the thematic report, etc.
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:30 Conclusions
Valerie POPPE-MUESS, Project manager, Roma and Travellers Team, Directorate of Democratic Governance and Anti-Discrimination, Council of Europe
Andrii YURASH, Director, Department for Religious Affairs and Nationalities, Ministry of Culture of Ukraine
[1] The term “Roma and Travellers” is used at the Council of Europe to encompass the wide diversity of the groups covered by the work of the Council of Europe in this field: on the one hand a) Roma, Sinti/Manush, Calé, Kaale, Romanichals, Boyash/Rudari; b) Balkan Egyptians and Ashkali; c) Eastern groups (Dom/Garachi, Lom/Bosha and Abdal); and, on the other hand, groups such as Travellers, Yenish, and the populations designated under the administrative term “Gens du voyage”, as well as persons who identify themselves as Gypsies. The present is an explanatory footnote, not a definition of Roma and/or Travellers.