Personal documentation - first step toward equality - NVO Mladi Romi

Personal documentation - first step toward equality

Details: Saturday, 04 January 2014 08:03

Lack of personal documents hinders the achievement of a number of rights in the field of social protection for the domicile and displaced Roma and Egyptians. Aware of the importance of this issue, Young Roma started with the implementation of activities aimed at addressing the issue of Roma and Egyptians settled in the Boka Bay back in 2008.

This project, supported by UNDP in Montenegro, the third in a series that focused on Roma and Egyptians who have their legal status unresolved, and who have inhabites the area of Pljevlja and Bijelo Polje. Special activity in this project was a thorough field research in, which showed that only a small number of people applied for resolving the legal status, and that their requests are still in the process. Further, in accordance with the recent amendments to the Law on Social Protection, some of the families from the Roma and Egyptian communities have lost their right to social assistance. The particular value of this project is the application of proven model for obtaining the documents, whose application contributes not only to resolve the legal status of RE people in these municipalities, but also ensures that all identified individuals continue to be entitled to family allowance. The aim of this project is to contribute to resolving the legal status of the 50 domicile Roma and 50 internally displaced persons. This 12-month project is being implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the relevant local authorities and Roma civil society.

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