E/CN.4/2000/16/Add.1 page 14 Roma children. In 1997, the R-Mosty civic association initiated a campaign in Prague schools on the subject of “Education for tolerance and against racism”. Many talks on the subject have been given in schools. 55. The Prague Human Rights Documentation Centre keeps watch over the activities of extreme right-wing movements, records racist crimes and informs the police. The European Roma Centre, a regional non-governmental organization, has been conducting in-depth studies of the various manifestations of racism and racial discrimination in the country and furnishes legal aid to victims. The Centre has led an unremitting national and international campaign against the building of the Ústi nad Labem wall and in November 1999 filed a complaint on behalf of the inhabitants of Maticni Street against the town authorities. 56. In June 1999, the Centre also filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court against the municipality of the town of Ostrava and the Ministry of Education for segregating Roma children in special schools for the mentally handicapped. II. CONSULTATIONS IN ROMANIA 57. The Special Rapporteur visited Romania from 23 to 26 September 1999. In Bucharest he had conversations with senior officials and civil servants, including Mr. Péter Eckstein-Kovacs, Minister for national minorities, Prime Minister’s Office, Mr. Jósef Kötó, Secretary of State, Ministry of Education, Mr. Cristian Diaconescu, Director of Legal and Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Romanita Vrinceanu, magistrate, Deputy General Secretary, Ministry of Justice, General Lazar Carjan, Chief, General Police Inspectorate, Ministry of the Interior, and Mr. Vasile-Gabriel Nita, Director, Police Research Institute on delinquency and prevention. The Special Rapporteur also met representatives of national human rights institutions, including Mr. Martian Dan, President of the Parliamentary Commission on Human Rights, Religious Denominations and National Minority Groups of the Romanian Parliament, and Mr. Mircea Moldovan and Ms. Ruxandra Sabareanu, deputies of the Ombudsman. He had working meetings with Mr. Winston Temple, Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme and Mr. Ushiro Tsuchida, representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In Bucharest the Special Rapporteur met the representatives of several Roma community associations and non-governmental organizations. He also visited Mr. Florin Cioaba, King of all Roma, in his residence of Sibiu in central Romania. The Rapporteur also spoke to representatives of Roma community associations and organizations for the defence of human rights or the rights of the Roma in particular. He visited the Romanian Institute for Human Rights where he talked to the director, Ms. Irina Moroianu Zlatescu and her team. A list of the main persons whom the Special Rapporteur met is given in the annex to this report. 58. The Special Rapporteur thanks the Romanian Government for its welcome and the cooperation it furnished during his visit to Romania. He is also grateful to the representatives of UNDP and UNHCR for their logistical support and the information they provided. He thanks the representatives of national human rights institutions and the representatives of Roma community associations and non-governmental organizations who were kind enough to meet him and supply information.