7^th INTERNATIONAL ROMA WOMEN’S CONFERENCE

Roma and Traveller Women’s access to justice and rights

Tuesday, 26 March 2019 

Hashtags: #IRWConference and #FinlandCoE and #WeSupportHumanRights

Roma and Traveller Women’s access to justice and rights

Wednesday, 27 March 2019

Plenary session 3: New technologies, digitalisation potential equalizers or threats to Roma and Travellers

Moderator: Ms Henna Huttu, Ministerial Adviser, Advisory Board on Roma Affairs, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland

09.00-9.45   Ms Ursula Till-Tentschert, Deputy Head of Unit, Technical Assistance & Capacity Building Unit, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) Big Data: Discrimination in data-supported decision making

Ms Carmen Santiago Reyes, Spain

SOS Kamira smartphone application lowering the threshold for reporting discrimination cases

Ms Yvonne MacNamara, Chief Officer, Ms Jenni Berlin, The Traveller Movement, United Kingdom

#Operationreporthate Campaign

Ms Jenita Rauta, POLAMK: Digital database research on hate crime against Roma in Finland, HERTGATE smartphone application

9.45 – 10.30                        Visual interlude

                                            Ms Carmen Baltzar, documentarist:

Public Images of Roma and Traveller Women in Media - reflection on unbalanced and distorted representations

                                            Ms Katriina Haikala, Visual Artist

Artist as a facilitator – Introduction to Lupta Femeilor- Women’s Fight art project executed together with Roma women in Finland

Ms Timea Junghaus, Executive Director / Anna Mirga-Kruszelnica, Deputy Director, The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC),

ERIAC and organisation’s support to Roma women artists and Roma women

Discussion

10.30-11.00                        BREAK

11.00-11.30                        Contribution of the 7^th International Roma Women Conference to the CoE-Finnish CM Presidency Conference on “Gender stereotypes and sexism”                   on 28-29 March 2019

Ms Mabera Kamberi, CAHROM member in respect of North Macedonia and Gender Equality Rapporteur

Plenary session 4: Conclusions, Recommendations and closing remarks

Moderator: Ms Valerie Poppe-Muess, Project Manager, Roma and Travellers Team, Council of Europe

11.30-13.00                Ms Gwendolyn Albert, General Rapporteur

Conclusions and recommendations

Ms Christina Chalilopoulou, Senior Adviser in Human Rights, KEDE Central Union of Municipalities of Greece

The perspective of Roma and Traveller women

                                                                 Concluding statements

Mr Thorsten Afflerbach, Head of Division, Roma and Travellers Team, Council of Europe

Ms Henna Huttu, Ministerial Adviser, Advisory Board on Roma Affairs, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland

13.00                                                         End of the Conference