Romani CRISS
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Romani CRISSRomani CRISS (full name: Romani Center for Social Intervention and Studies, or Centrul Romilor pentru Intervenţie Socială şi Studii in Romania
) is a Romania
n non-government organisation which seeks to protect the rights of the country's Romani minority and to prevent discrimination against the Roma. It also conducts a series of projects in order to improve the situation of the Roma in education and health care.
The Roma, which make up 2.5% of Romania's population, are the country's most disadvantaged ethnic group. Romani CRISS was founded on April 4, 1993. The current executive director of Romani CRISS is Margareta Matache.
Romanian language
Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
) is a Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
n non-government organisation which seeks to protect the rights of the country's Romani minority and to prevent discrimination against the Roma. It also conducts a series of projects in order to improve the situation of the Roma in education and health care.
The Roma, which make up 2.5% of Romania's population, are the country's most disadvantaged ethnic group. Romani CRISS was founded on April 4, 1993. The current executive director of Romani CRISS is Margareta Matache.
See also
- Aven AmentzaAven AmentzaAven Amentza is a Romanian non-government organisation, established in 1997, that seeks to improve the social position of the country's Roma minority, while also enhacing Roma rights and combating anti-Roma discrimination. It is also involved in research activities that analyse the situation of the...
(another Romani NGO based in Romania) - National Agency for the RomaNational Agency for the RomaThe National Agency for the Roma is an agency of the Romanian government which seeks to improve the social and economic situation of Romania's Roma minority, which make up 2.5% of the population and are the country's most disadvantaged minority.A government agency for Roma affairs was...