Welcome to Dosta!
Submitted by ivana on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 08:49.Welcome to DOSTA! campaign internet site! Through this website, we would like to collect your expectations in order to make this campaign the project of all those who would like to join it and to give their contribution to its implementation.
If you wish to join the campaign, or to contribute to any of the campaign activities just log in and post your comments, or visit the calendar of activities and the "how to join" section!

(Official photos of the campaign by Sandro Weltin/Council of Europe).
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Dosta! Campaign
Submitted by ivana on Thu, 04/06/2006 - 13:03.
"Dosta", a Romani word meaning "enough", is an awareness raising campaign which aims at bringing non-Roma closer to Roma citizens.
"Dosta" means that we want to stop prejudices and stereotypes not by denouncing them but by breaking them, showing who the Roma really are. They are not perfect, of course, but "who is?". What is sure is that Roma are European citizens: they form a group of about 10 million people and can be found in almost all Council of Europe member states; in some Central and Eastern European countries, they represent over 5% of the population.
Being European citizens means that Roma have not only duties but also rights and aspirations like everybody else, and therefore their citizenship and human rights must be recognized. Furthermore, Roma culture is a rightful part of Europe’s cultural heritage: it has always contributed to the enrichment of European societies. It is now time to recognize this contribution.
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Michto Festival in Strasbourg and Dosta
Submitted by Ljiljana on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 09:45.The association “Lupovino” from Strasbourg has organized the “Michto Festival” in “Parc de la Citadelle” in Strasbourg from 2 to 4 July 2010. Lupovino has been working for more than 15 years for the improvement of the living conditions of French Manush (Sinti), Gitans (Kalé) and Roma, collectively called in France as “Gens du voyage”, and is organising regularly cultural and educational activities for the promotion of their culture and tradition.
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Barvale exhibition on successful Roma in Skopje's Chifte Amam gallery
Submitted by Ljiljana on Thu, 06/24/2010 - 16:22.
Dusko Miljanic’s Barvale exhibition, as a part of Dosta! campain activities, had its grand opening on 14th of June in Macedonian Chifte Amam gallery. Being organized and financed by Council of Europe thirty two works created during this project and presenting successful Roma people were exhibited.
Exhibition was opened by Mr. Thomas Hammarberg, a High Commisioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe, in the presence of many representatives of United Nations, Council of Europe and diplomatic corps. On this occasion Mr. Hammarberg was not hiding his satisfaction with the Barvale and he said that exhibition will travel to Strasbourg. However Barvale list of fans was growing rapidly and famous Maceodonian curator Mrs. Suzana Milevska, after seeing the exhibition, announced inivitation for Venetian biennale.
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Fanny Ardant on Europe's treatment of the Roma people at the press conference of the Council of Europe
Submitted by Ljiljana on Thu, 06/24/2010 - 15:21.
On 22 June 2010 in Strasbourg, the Council of Europe organised a Press conference with Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Council of Europe Deputy Secretary General, Ms Fanny Ardant, a CoE Dosta! campaign Ambassador and the PACE rapporteur Mr Boriss Cilevičs on the occasion of the adoption of Mr Berényi's report and passing the Resolution on The situation of Roma in Europe and relevant activities of the Council of Europe by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Ms Fanny Ardant addressed the Assembly to discuss the prejudice and stereotypes towards Roma.
French actress Fanny Ardant responds to Afua Hirsch's questions, a journalist from Guardian, at the launch of the Council of Europe's Dosta! campaign to highlight discrimination against Roma.
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Fanny Ardant parle de son film "Chimères absentes" et les Roms en Europe
Submitted by Ljiljana on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 14:56.
« LES TSIGANES sont une chance pour nous. Nous voulons mettre le monde dans une boîte, et, eux, ils nous donnent l’imagination et la liberté. ".
« Le problème des Tsiganes qui vivent en Europe occidentale m’a toujours intéressée. Je les aime profondément depuis toujours et, depuis toujours, l’injustice me scandalise surtout quand elle est institutionnalisée. »
« Nos communautés occidentales, en Italie et en France, mais aussi en général dans toute l’Europe, sont conformistes et parlent de tolérance. Je déteste le mot « tolérance ». Au fond, c’est un terme péjoratif si on pense : « Nous acceptons ta présence mais à condition que tu te taises ».
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2nd Festival of Roma Culture Romano Chon in Slovenia
Submitted by Ljiljana on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 16:06.
In April 2010, the 2nd Festival of Roma Culture Romano Chon/the Month of the Roma Culture, organised by the Roma Academic Club, the Association of creative people in culture and the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, took place in Murska Sobota, Novo Mesto, Ljubljana and Maribor thus becoming truly pan-Slovenian.
This year, it was organised in the context of the “European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion«, the »Roma Decade« and the »Dosta!« campaign seeking to overcome the prejudice and stereotypes regarding Roma people. At the same time, the Festival now features on the map of the “European Routes of Roma Culture and Heritage«, hosting a series of cultural events across Europe.
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Actress and director Fanny Ardant to partner the Dosta! campaign on Roma
Submitted by Ljiljana on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 15:29.
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Roma fashion show in Bulgaria - a positive and tolerant multi-cultural environment
Submitted by Ljiljana on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 13:14.
Roma Fashion Foundation is an initiative of young professionals intending to use their creativity for the establishment of a positive and tolerant multi-cultural environment in
On 9th of May 2010 an event entitled "The World is Colorful" will present a collection of authentic Roma women's clothes from all over the world, as well as contemporary designer interpretations, accompanied by international Roma music.
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The European Library launched a new virtual exhibition called “A Roma Journey”.
Submitted by Ljiljana on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 12:37.The European Library is a free service that offers access to the resources of the 48 national libraries of
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