Summit examines Roma plight
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Representatives from eastern and central Europe meet in Bulgaria to discuss plans for Roma inclusion.
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Europe's Roma minority appealed  to the United Nations on Wednesday to be included in annual  Holocaust commemorations as recognized victims of Nazi Germany  who still suffer discrimination across the continent.
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ROME, Italy -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met here Friday with the interim president of Iraq, Ghazi Al-Yawar, amid mounting public pressure on his government and intense diplomatic efforts to free two women aid worker hostages.
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The Commission for Racial Equality launches a review of how local authorities treat gypsies and travelling communities.
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PRIME minister Ferenc Gyurcsany joined leaders from eastern and south-eastern Europe in Sofia on Wednesday (February 2) to launch a decade-long program to improve the conditions of the region's Roma population.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 18 (IPS) - European Union officials were this week branded  "slow" and "lazy" in addressing discrimination  faced by the Roma community, the continent's largest  transnational minority.
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Human rights defenders face arrest and  torture in China, and the European Union should raise the issue  at a summit with Beijing's leaders this week, Amnesty  International said in a new report Monday.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 7 (IPS) - The European Union must raise the issue of human  rights abuse in China when its leaders meet their Chinese  counterparts at a summit this week, say leading human rights  groups.
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More than 25 heads of state meet in Nigeria to try to resolve some of the Africa's most pressing problems.
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Ministers from 57 European and African countries gathered here for a major conference to seek ways to curb the growing problem of mass immigration to Europe, partly by improving conditions in their homeland.
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Romanies feel discriminated against in the Czech Republic as well as other EU countries, and individual cases of discrimination are mostly not solved but by court, Alan Anstead from the European Romany Rights ...
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DAR ES SALAAM : African leaders gathered for their latest summit on conflict in Burundi, held in the wake of a massacre of Tutsi refugees for which Burundi&#39;s last active Hutu rebel group claimed responsibility.
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In the Tirana Summit Declaration on Inter-Religious and Inter-Ethnic Dialogue in Southeast Europe, the participants 'reaffirm that mutual respect, rooted in open dialogue and nourished by multi-ethnicity, ...
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Description: European heads of state gather in Brussels for a summit to begin talks over Turkish membership in the European Union.
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The incoming European Commission president is to meet parliament heads to defuse the crisis over his proposed justice commissioner.
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A summit of African leaders in Libya seeks a solution to the crisis in the Sudanese region of Darfur.
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The incoming president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, is to meet party leaders in the European Parliament. This morning&#39;s meeting is a bid to avert a crisis over the nomination of Italian Rocco Buttiglione as Justice Commissioner.