"Dosta", le nom de la campagne du Conseil de l’Europe pour les droits des Roms, signifie « assez ! » en Romani
est aussi le titre d’une campagne de sensibilisation qui vise à rapprocher les citoyens non roms des Roms.

En disant Dosta ! , nous affirmons notre volonté de mettre fin aux préjugés et aux stéréotypes. Il ne suffit pas de les dénoncer. Il faut les abattre en montrant qui sont vraiment les Roms. Ils ne sont pas parfaits bien sûr, mais qui l’est ?

Education campaigns of the Council of Europe: Dosta! Go Beyond prejudices, discover the Roma and Speak out against discrimination, have encouraged the creation of youth documentary film about "richness of diversity " recording of which started with 2010. Video project coincides with the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion 2010. 

It is a youth video production in a manner of realistic images of discriminatory acts in history, personal confession and testimonies of individuals who, for various reasons, face discrimination and interesting stories and interviews, both from secular and professional circles. The documentary involves members of different ethnic, religious, ethnic and cultural minorities, including some well-known media and political personalities and profession. Their cooperation, among the others. confirmed the President of the Republic of Slovenia dr. Danilo Türk, and Mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Janković.

Bertrand Delanoë, le maire de Paris, et Daniel Vaillant, celui de l’arrondissement,  ont inauguré, jeudi 22 janvier 2010, en présence du ministre de la Culture, Frédéric Mitterrand, la place Django Reinhardt, située entre la porte de Clignancourt et les Puces de Saint-Ouen. Manière de rendre hommage au guitariste gitan, citoyen du 18e arrondissement de Paris, qui aurait eu 100 ans aujourd’hui.

Athènes, 12.01.2010 – La Conférence de deux jours organisée par les femmes roms à Athènes et qui a pris fin aujourd'hui portait sur l'augmentation alarmante des atteintes aux droits de l'homme dont sont victimes les femmes roms et sur les moyens permettant de leur garantir la pleine jouissance de leurs droits.

Dans une déclaration adoptée au terme de la conférence, les participants ont invité à l'unanimité les gouvernements européens à respecter leurs obligations et à veiller à ce que les femmes roms jouissent de leurs droits fondamentaux, à mettre un terme au climat d'impunité dans lequel sont commises d'épouvantables atteintes à leurs droits et à prendre des mesures sans équivoque pour en sanctionner les auteurs et indemniser les femmes roms qui en sont victimes.

Violence, poverty, inequality and widespread discrimination have made Roma communities the “punchbags” of Europe and victims of an “undeclared Apartheid” system.

These were among the conclusions reached by a panel of experts which assembled for the Council of Europe’s ‘Viewpoint’ human rights talk show, to be broadcast in early January 2010.

Voici, en gros, ce que dit un jugement rendu cette semaine par le tribunal de Grande Instance de Lyon, saisi par le conseil général du Rhône pour faire expulser un campement de Roms dans le 3è arrondissement de Lyon.

 13/11/2009 - Wiener Zeitung / Österreich  

 "Racism Against Romany Becoming 'Worse and Worse'"

Vienna - At an international conference in the Vienna Hofburg, harsh criticism was voiced about the treatment of Romany within the EU states. Representatives of the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the EU Agency for Basic Right (FRA) made many demands of the governments of member states to stop the discrimination, segregation and racism against the Romany.

"We have a real problem with racism - and it is getting worse and worse," warned Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe's human rights commissioner. It was tolerated that the Romany became "the doormats of our society" and that racist remarks by politicians are simply accepted as such. "The heads of government must finally take this problem seriously. Romany are being discriminated, although they are also EU citizens."

Worsening anti-gypsy discrimination will come under the microscope next month in a television debate organised by the Council of Europe.

VIENNA (AP) - Roma face widespread discrimination when they migrate throughout Europe in search of a better life and governments are failing to address the problem, human rights experts said Monday, 9 Nov 2009.

Often referred to as Gypsies, Roma are an ethnic group that has traditionally lived mostly in southern and eastern Europe. Besides a lack of access to housing, social services and education, they often do not have the identity papers needed to get decent jobs and are seen as criminals.

"We have allowed the Roma population to be scapegoats in our own societies -- an underclass," said Thomas Hammarberg, commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe. "The leaders of governments must begin to take this problem seriously because this is hypocrisy when it comes to human rights."

Hammarberg and other experts spoke to reporters on the sidelines of a conference in the Austrian capital about Roma migration and freedom of movement.