Romani CRISS

Romani CRISS

Romani CRISS (full name: "Roma Center for Social Intervention and Studies", or "Centrul Romilor pentru Intervenţie Socială şi Studii" in Romania) is a Romanian non-government organisation which seeks to protect the rights of the country's Roma minority and to prevent discrimination against the Roma. It also conducts a series of projects in order to improve the situation of the Roma in education and health care.

The Roma, which make up 2.5% of Romania's population, are the country's most disadvantaged ethnic groupFact|date=June 2007. Romani CRISS was founded on April 4, 1993. The current executive director of Romani CRISS is Margareta Matache.

External links

*en icon [http://www.romanicriss.org/index.php?lang=en Romani CRISS]

ee also

*Aven Amentza (another Romani NGO based in Romania)
*National Agency for the Roma


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