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25 09 2007 BIRN Serbia is to train eight Roma journalists from all over Serbia, September 27-29. The training will be followed by publication of a special edition dedicated to key political, economic, and social issues of importance to the Roma community in Serbia.
Since the
beginning of the inter-governmental “Decade of Roma Inclusion” programme in
2005, a number of measures have been taken to improve conditions for this
disadvantaged community. But there is
much more to be done before the current patterns are changed. Frequent attacks
on Roma people and their settlements, exclusion from society, the huge
obstacles in the way of breaking the cycle of poverty and ways of overcoming cultural
barriers will be some of topics that we will tackle.
“Roma media are
important, because they influence the emancipation of the Roma, the development
of their culture and traditions. Roma media also play a very important role in the
development of inter-ethnic relations between Roma and other nations”, said
Orhan Galjus, journalist from Amsterdam
and activist at the “Media and minorities in SEE” conference.
Galjus will be a
guest trainer at the Belgrade
event.
The trainees’ reports will be published in English,
Serbian and Roma languages early November.
These training and publishing activities will be
implemented under the framework of the “Minority Media Training and Reporting
Project”, supported by the British Embassy in Belgrade and the OSCE mission in
Serbia.
At the beginning of 2010 BIRN network published Digging Deeper - A Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans, written in cooperation with Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and professor of professional practice at Columbia University, New York.
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