Activities of Jean-Marie CAVADA related to 2010/2276(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (8)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A (new)
Recital A (new)
A. whereas the exclusion of Roma children from the education system has an adverse impact on the other rights of the members of the Roma community, in particular the right to work, and whereas this exacerbates their marginalisation,
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital B (new)
Recital B (new)
B. whereas the communities that wish to maintain their traditional nomadic lifestyle within Europe are those most affected by illiteracy, and whereas there are therefore cultural barriers to the schooling of their children,
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital C (new)
Recital C (new)
C. whereas the material conditions required for the schooling of Roma children must be provided, and whereas this must include the appointment of school mediators,
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that Roma children must, like other children, enjoy their fundamental right to an education, guaranteeing them a future as adults in the world of work;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to combat every form of social and educational exclusion of the Roma and to encourage all programmes that invest in education for Roma people;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set themselves genuine, concrete objectives in terms of finding solutions to the problem of begging by Roma children, and to support all initiatives that vigorously combat trafficking in human beings;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that it must be made possible for different approaches to be adopted to the children of Roma families who wish to settle in one place and those who wish to continue their nomadic way of life: - in the case of the first, a consistent approach should be taken to structures monitoring children’s regular school attendance, as well as systematic steps to remove the cultural and linguistic obstacles which may be the root causes of ‘dropping out’ from school; - in the case of the second, encouragement should be given, in collaboration with education ministries and educational associations in the Member States, to ‘school buses’, which would go to camps so that Roma children could be given special lessons on the rights and obligations associated with the European Union, which would at the same time be tailored to their needs and history and enable language barriers to be removed, thus strengthening the links between school and family;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)