SLOVAKIA-POVERTY-ROMA

27 września 2011, | Kategorie: | Brak komentarzy

TO GO WITH AFP STORY IN FRENCH BY SOPHIE PONS
Slovak-Roma students ride a carousel at a Roma Community Center on 11 March, 2008 in the village of Lipany, one of the many Roma ghettos in eastern Slovakia. The dropout rate of Roma children of primary schools is over 60 percent with only 3 percent reaching high school and only 0.3 percent obtaining a university degree, according to a recent Amnesty international report. After decades marked by genocide, severe discrimination and forced integration, the community’s situation has worsened since the fall of communism. According to social workers, reforms implemented by the previous rightist governement have deepened poverty without reducing unemployement which is still close to 100 percent in the Roma community. AFP PHOTO/JOE KLAMAR



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