Guest blogger: Irina Niţă, Director, ACCEPT Association Several years ago I overheard someone talking during a coffee break, at a NGOs conference: ‘ACCEPT makes so much fuss, for what? For the less than 50 gay people who live in Romania!?’ Today there are still journalists who write about ‘hundreds of homosexuals’ living in Romania. Psychologists and psychiatrists ignore current scientific reality, and 40 years after homosexuality was removed from … Read more »See you on the 4th of June!
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Guest blogger: The other side of Roma integration
Every now and then something happens and the debate about integration of the Roma minority in Romania is reignited. In 2010 it was the repatriation of several hundred Romanian Roma from France. Last year the attention of media, civil society, other Member States and the European Commission has turned once more to this subject. So when I took over the dossier in the Embassy the momentum was right and I … Read more »Guest blogger: The other side of Roma integration
Guest blogger about human rights in Romania: Empowering young patients to fight for their future
The Little People Association has been working for the past decade with children who are battling cancer in Romania. The work initially started in one oncology centre in the North of Romania. Our daily activities provided an escape from the treatment procedures that a young child or teenager had to endure – board games, movie evenings, painting, parties, playing and friendship – anything that would give the children a resemblance … Read more »Guest blogger about human rights in Romania: Empowering young patients to fight for their future
