LA VOIX DES RROMS

Le Plan d'action a été adopté en 2003 par l'OSCE. La France s'est engagée, avec les autres pays participants de l'OSCE, à le mettre en oeuvre. Cependant, il est clair qu'elle est très loin de l'avoir fait. Une session de travail de la Conférence sur la Dimension Humaine de l'OSCE, tenue à Varsovie, était consacrée à faire un bilan et à envisager une méthodologie pour une mise en oeuvre réelle du Plan. "La voix des Rroms" a contribué avec le texte qui suit (pardon, il est en anglais):

1. Recognizing the Romani people according to its own identity, avoiding social stigmatisation, by modifying the paragraph 72 of the Action Plan as follows: “consider measures to ensure the respect, protection and promotion of the Romani language and its teaching, and of a Roma culture as an integral part of the Roma and Sinti cultural heritage as and integral part of the European cultural heritage”. This formulation was the one proposed by the Romani working group and reiterated in Cordoba conference on Anti-Semitism and other forms of Intolerance.
   


2. Associating, as a consequence, the working group on the Action Plan in the implementation, assessment and review. Mandating and budgeting ODIHR-CPRSI to set up the “Group 2018” drawing upon the experience and the expertise of the Romani working group on Action Plan.
   


3. Mainstreaming social problems faced by Roma and Sinti in all relevant OSCE activities.
   

1. Adopting mechanisms of participation drawing upon the recommendations of the Romani working group, and especially on the proximity principle
   


2. Adopting concrete measures to make full use of the existing human resources among Roma and Sinti, while financing educational programs to expand the Romani elite, able to act as a full partner in the implementation of the policies
   


3. Making reasonable use of specially targeting Roma and Sinti in social policies, so as to respond to specific problems faced by this population while avoiding raise of hostility among the majority population belonging to the same economically and socially excluded segment
   

1. Withdraw the provision of the Finance law year 2006, setting up a habitation tax for caravans, which is both contestable in its principle (the caravan is not recognized as a habitation in terms of social advantages) and exorbitant in its amount (it is 3 times higher than the tax applied to built habitations in the heart of Paris)
   


2. Recognizing the presence on French soil of Roma and Sinti population as a component of the French society diversity and national identity.
   


3. Taking a clear political position and concrete measures to stop useless police violence on Roma and Sinti, both French and foreign citizens
   


4. Reforming the functioning of the “Commission consultative des gens du voyage” so as to achieve effective participation and legitimacy of this body
   


5. Putting in place the necessary caravans' sites as provided for by the French law, taking into account the legitimate request of those concerned to have access to family sites.
   


6. Financing scholarships for French and foreign candidates to Romani studies in Paris, as a means of long-term solution to a series of problems recurrently identified in France and more largely in Europe
   


7. Ensure equality through a balanced financial support of the NGOs called “amis des tsiganes” and the Romani NGOs, based on expertise and potential of these organisations.