Restrictive legislation and threats to the civil sector were among the main issues that representatives of Center Amalipe raised at the European Roma Platform and the Conference on Human Dimensions of the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe. They also touched upon important issues related to the Roma community – the lack of political support […]
Reading the words of Deyan Kolev, which I will introduce to you below, my mind naturally drifted to a dark, magical, yet fictional world—the fantasy universe of Harry Potter, with which I grew up. Fans will likely remember how, in the fifth book, the “Grand Inquisitor” Dolores Umbridge, appointed by the “Ministry of Magic,” which […]
As a student, I was enthusiastic about studying philosophy from Plato’s dialogues. I was particularly influenced by the dialogues Phaedo, Phaedrus, and Symposium, in which Plato (through the voice of his teacher Socrates) argues for the immortality of the soul and discusses love. It’s normal—many teenagers wonder whether our souls are immortal, and everyone is […]
Amalipe Center continues its initiative with the next episode of the podcast “Success Stories and Friendship in Action”. Within the podcast, we will meet you with people who motivate, inspire and make the world a better place. We will talk about dreams, the path to success, tolerance, discrimination and education. We will also discuss the […]
Representatives of OSCE – ODIHR and other OSCE institutions, delegations of several member states and NGOs took part in the launching event of the Forth Status Report Implementation of the Action Plan on Improving the Situation of Roma and Sinti within the OSCE Area. The event took place in Vienna on December 8th. Center Amalipe […]
The 16th edition of the European Roma Platform took place on November 30th in Madrid, Spain. The event was attended by European Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli, Spanish Minister of Social Affairs Pablo Bustindui, Members of the European Parliament, representatives of National Contact Points, European and national institutions, and non-governmental organizations. The main topic […]
European Commissioners Helena Dali (Equality) and Vera Jourova (Values and Transparency) discussed the implementation of policies for equality, inclusion and participation of the Roma, as well as the difficulties facing the use of European funds with non-governmental organizations from the “Roma Civil Monitoring” consortium in Bulgaria. The meeting was held online on February 22. Along […]
A sincere conversation about the range of educational segregation, the ways to overcome it and the overall development of school education in the coming months and years, took place during the National Conference “State of Educational Integration: From Segregation to an Ethnically Mixed Environment”. The first panel of the Conference was attended by the Minister […]
The COVID 19 crazies makes evident and sharpens the social inequalities in all the fields. Roma minority that is object of multiple discrimination and faces multiple inequalities is on the “First Line” in this regard throughout Europe. Four main challenges form everyday reality for Bulgarian Roma in the crisis: 1.Extreme poverty leads to hunger problem […]