Romani CRISS (full name: Romani Center for Social Intervention and Studies, or Centrul Romilor pentru Intervenție Socială și Studii in Romania) is a Romanian non-government organisation which seeks to protect the rights of the country's Romani minority and to prevent discrimination against the Roma, who officially make up 3.3% of the country's population as of 2011,[1] with an unofficial 2002 estimate of between 1.5 and 2 million, representing at least 8-9% of the population.[2] It also conducts a series of projects in order to improve the situation of the Roma in education and health care. Romani CRISS was founded on April 4, 1993, and its executive director 2005-2012 was Margareta Matache.[3] Its current executive director is Marian Mandache.[4]
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See also
edit- Aven Amentza (another Romani NGO based in Romania)
- National Agency for the Roma
References
edit- ^ "CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING OF 2011". Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "Roma Decade 24th International Steering Committee Meeting". EURoma. 2013-06-19. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "Romani CRISS". www.romanicriss.org. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "Romani CRISS". www.romanicriss.org. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
External links
edit- (in English) Romani CRISS
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