We are pleased to send you for adoption EWL Position Paper on Romani and Traveller Women in the European Union. As some of you might remember, the drafting of this position paper was one of the recommendation of the issue group on Romani women that took place at EWL GA in Brussels in 2009. The position paper is based on: EWL board seminar on Romani Women, January 2011; EWL-HWL public conference on Romani women, April 2011, Budapest; Discussion on the draft position paper at the EWL Board, 20.10.2012; Amendments by EWL members on the draft position paper by 11.11.2012 and the contribution of many Romani and Traveller women experts that we would like to thank.
We are pleased to let you know that this position paper will be of great use soon as we have learnt that there will be an own-initiative report in 2013 of the FEMM Committee of the European Parliament on the gender aspect of the Roma strategies with a hearing and a 3 (Slovakia, Hungary, Romania) country visit!
Please indicate by Monday 10 December if you have any objection to the adoption of the position paper by sending an email to: bach@womenlobby.org