16.
To promote action in post-conflict areas, by States parties and from other
responsible States or authorities in order to prevent violence against and forced
displacement of members of the Roma communities.
3. Measures in the field of education
17.
To support the inclusion in the school system of all children of Roma origin
and to act to reduce drop-out rates, in particular among Roma girls, and, for these
purposes, to cooperate actively with Roma parents, associations and local
communities.
18.
To prevent and avoid as much as possible the segregation of Roma students,
while keeping open the possibility for bilingual or mother-tongue tuition; to this end,
to endeavour to raise the quality of education in all schools and the level of
achievement in schools by the minority community, to recruit school personnel from
among members of Roma communities and to promote intercultural education.
19.
To consider adopting measures in favour of Roma children, in cooperation
with their parents, in the field of education.
20.
To act with determination to eliminate any discrimination or racial harassment
of Roma students.
21.
To take the necessary measures to ensure a process of basic education for
Roma children of travelling communities, including by admitting them temporarily to
local schools, by temporary classes in their places of encampment, or by using new
technologies for distance education.
22.
To ensure that their programmes, projects and campaigns in the field of
education take into account the disadvantaged situation of Roma girls and women.
23.
To take urgent and sustained measures in training teachers, educators and
assistants from among Roma students.
24.
To act to improve dialogue and communication between the teaching
personnel and Roma children, Roma communities and parents, using more often
assistants chosen from among the Roma.
25.
To ensure adequate forms and schemes of education for members of Roma
communities beyond school age, in order to improve adult literacy among them.
26.
To include in textbooks, at all appropriate levels, chapters about the history
and culture of Roma, and encourage and support the publication and distribution of
books and other print materials as well as the broadcasting of television and radio
programmes, as appropriate, about their history and culture, including in languages
spoken by them.