Council of Europe Recommendation: schools should include Roma and Traveller history in teaching curricula

The Council of Europe, international organization whose aim is to sustain democracy, human rights, European cultural identity and the searching for solutions to social problems, emanated a new recommendation to on the necessity to analyze and revise current school curricula, textbooks and other teaching or learning materials with a view to eliminating stereotyping related to Roma and/or Travellers and to promoting issues related to Roma and and/or Travellers History, with a particular focus on the "Porrajmos", and the active role that the latter played in the resistance movements against the Nineteenth Century totalitarian regimes and for the creation of Europe.

In the "Documentation" section of our website you can download and consult the full text of the Council of Europe recommendation.

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