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Recommendation on Racial Discrimination against Roma It called upon States parties to adopt and implement national strategies and programmes and to express determined political will and moral leadership, with a view to improving the situation of Roma and protecting them against discrimination by State bodies or persons and organizations. The Committee also recommended, among other things, that measures be taken to acknowledge "wrongs" done during the Second World War to Roma communities by deportation and extermination, and to consider ways of compensating them. Further, the Committee urged that States parties
review and enact or amend legislation in order to eliminate all
forms of racial discrimination against Roma, as against other persons
or groups, in accordance with the Convention; that national strategies
and programmes be implemented and that determined political will
and moral leadership be expressed with a view to improving the situation
of Roma and their protection against discrimination by State bodies,
as well as by any person or organization; and that the wishes of
Roma as to the designation they wanted to be given and the group
to which they wanted to belong be respected. |
