9.
To endeavour, by encouraging a genuine dialogue, consultations or other appropriate means,
to improve the relations between Roma communities and non-Roma communities, in particular at
local levels, with a view to promoting tolerance and overcoming prejudices and negative stereotypes
on both sides, to promoting efforts for adjustment and adaptation and to avoiding discrimination and
ensuring that all persons fully enjoy their human rights and freedoms.
10.
To acknowledge wrongs done during the Second World War to Roma communities by
deportation and extermination and consider ways of compensating for them.
11.
To take the necessary measures, in cooperation with civil society, and initiate projects to
develop the political culture and educate the population as a whole in a spirit of non-discrimination,
respect for others and tolerance, in particular concerning Roma.
2. Measures for protection against racial violence
12.
To ensure protection of the security and integrity of Roma, without any discrimination, by
adopting measures for preventing racially motivated acts of violence against them; to ensure prompt
action by the police, the prosecutors and the judiciary for investigating and punishing such acts; and to
ensure that perpetrators, be they public officials or other persons, do not enjoy any degree of impunity.
13.
To take measures to prevent the use of illegal force by the police against Roma, in particular
in connection with arrest and detention.
14.
To encourage appropriate arrangements for communication and dialogue between the police
and Roma communities and associations, with a view to preventing conflicts based on racial prejudice
and combating acts of racially motivated violence against members of these communities, as well as
against other persons.
15.
To encourage recruitment of members of Roma communities into the police and other law
enforcement agencies.
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.
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