The fight against discrimination has been forgotten on a piece if paper after the EU integration. Elsewhere in the news, the mutant potato was refused by Romania. Last but not least, Romanian police have discovered tens of people arrested in several farms from Constanta county, where they have allegedly been forced to work in terrible conditions.
The fight against discrimination has been forgotten on a piece if paper after the EU integration, Evenimentul Zilei reads. The Romanian authorities don't show much interest in helping those Romanians faced with discrimination, a Juridical Resources Centre (CRJ) analysis indicated. The equality of chances is just a principle written on a paper for Romania to join the EU, the publication goes on. The authorities don't find it necessary to record and solve discrimination cases.
According to the CRJ report published yesterday, "applying the gender and chances equality principle at a national level remains at a declarative level, despite a satisfactory legislation. The most discriminated against category are the physically impaired, followed by the homeless, HIV positive, drug addicts and the Roma people. Only 15.7% of the local administration reps believe that these vulnerable groups are protected, while half claim it does not happen "too often".
Over 60% of the local leaders admit that they don't even record information regarding discrimination acts. Only 5% said they set up a data base for the matter. Government councillor Csaba Astalosz blamed the lack of information which makes people unable to realise when they are faced with discrimination.
The European law was supposed to be implemented. But to this day, not even the public institutions have made sure that the physically impaired person can use access systems. Plus, people infected with HIV face difficulties in hospitals and
