Roma children segregation in a Romanian hospital claimed before the equality body

Alert DateDecember 21, 2011 Country: Romania Address: Bucharest General Type: Discrimination Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-roma/ romaphobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Roma & Travelers Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Health and social protection
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In December 2011, Romani CRISS and Euroregional Center for Public Initiatives filed a complaint with the National Council for Combating Discrimination (NCCD) for children segregation in the wards of Hospital Marie Sklodowska Curie from Bucharest asking for a sanctioning under the aggravated form of “segregation”. The NGOs claimed a delay in implementing anti-discrimination regulations in the health system and maintained that a Ministry of Health and local authorities’ control over whether hospitals ban ethnic segregation and implement this ban should happen. The case before the NCCD is pending.

 

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Romani CRISS and Euroregional Center for Public Initiatives, Press Release. Roma children segregation in hospitals – contested in Romania for the first time, 21.12.2011 available at: http://www.romanicriss.org/PDF/Press%20release%20children%20segregation%20in%20hospital%20Marie%20Curie%20dec%202011.pdf (Accessed on 03.03.2012)