Through the "Youth Video Project ", organised within the framework of the Dosta! campaign,  young people who have spent a significant part of their lives in an IDP in Plementina camp have produced documentary on Roma history in the camp, their roots, their identity.

The project encourages young people to be active, whilst giving them an opportunity to express themselves. Young people in the camps don’t have access to university or school and they face many social problems. This project teaches them to work together as a team; the participants also gain film-making and basic journalistic skills. Through the 3 months training and working experience that participants re-ceived, they will are now able to develop new documentary film projects of their own in the future. 

On Monday the 12th of November the result of their work will be shown in ODA THEATRE. A photo and painting exhibitions are also organised as well as live Roma music, everything Made in Plementina!

Esma Redzepova, the so-called « Queen of the Gypsies » is one of the amazing artists who co-operate with the Dosta! campaign for promoting a better understanding of Roma culture and the recognition of Roma as European citizens. Nominated for Nobel Prize for Peace in 2003, Esma was also the first Yugoslavian artist to act in Paris’ Olympia. Proud of her origins, Esma started singing when she was 13. Her marriage with a « gadjo », Mr. Stevo Teodosievski, was a scandal before becoming the symbol of the dialogue between the Roma community and the majority society. We met her in Freiburg, during the recording of the Dosta! campaign CD: "Music Beyond Prejudice: Romani variations on the European Anthem".

Interview with Mrs Esma Redzepova

Interview with Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights: Q&A: ''Where Europe Has Failed These Europeans'' 17/10/2007 - IPS / Italy and USA Thomas Hammerberg was elected Commissioner of Human Rights of the Council of Europe in October 2005. He plays a crucial role in promoting implementation of the recommendations of the human rights system of the Council. The Council of Europe has 47 member states in the Europe region, and is the oldest organisation working for European integration. It is separate from the European Union (EU), and therefore from the European Council of the EU. Thomas Hammerberg was elected by the parliamentary assembly of the council, which comprises members from national parliaments. Apostolis Fotiadis from IPS discussed with him the key problems that Roma, one of the most discriminated against groups in the EU face today.  

 Strasbourg, 16.10.2007- Five schools and three NGOs from the Western Balkans became winners of the Council of Europe “Schools and Civil Society Awards” today for their work to promote intercultural dialogue and better understanding of Roma culture.

The prizes have been awarded as part of a joint Council of Europe and European Commission awareness raising campaign: “DOSTA! Go Beyond prejudice, discover the Roma”.

Launched in April 2007, the competition was open to schools and NGOs from the Dosta! campaign participating countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the Republic of Serbia, and "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia".

The winners of the 2007 Schools and Civil Society Awards are:

Civil Society Award

1st Prize (a diploma and 3,000 euros): Albanian Young Women Christian Association (Albania)

2nd Prize (a diploma and 2,500 euros): Roma Community Centre DROM (“the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”)

3rd Prize (a diploma and 1,500 euros): NGO ALFA (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

 FERYP - the Forum of European Roma Young People is the organiser of the "All Different, all equal - Summer Camp and Roma Youth Festival, which took place on 20-26 August 2006, in Ohrid, “the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”.

This project took place within the framework of the European Youth Campaign “All different, all equal” and in co-operation with the “DOSTA!” Campaign, under the patronage of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights.

The project is a follow-up of the study session in 2005 “Roma Youth – Situation and Perspectives 10 years after the RAXI Campaign” and the Conference “Romaphobia and Anti-Gypsyism – old phenomenon and new challenges in Europe” and of the study session “Campaigning for Roma Rights and Equality of Opportunities”.

The Dosta! campaign, in cooperation with the Urban Gypsy Beats band "Kal", will be present at the  “Ex-Yu Rocks” Festival, which will take place in Banja Luka on 27-28 July 2007. 

EX-YU Rocks is an international music festival which promotes since 12 years the values of peace and tolerance in former Yugoslavia region; this year Kal will be the testimonail of the Dosta! campaign by promoting the respect of  the rights of Roma citizens through their music.

For more information on the Festival visit: http://www.exyurocks.info/

For listening Kal's music: http://www.myspace.com/romakal

The festival in the press: http://www.exyurocks.info/images/Press/velike/10.gif

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The Dosta! Campaign TV spot in Macedonian language is broadcasted in May by  MTV (Macedonian National television), every Tuesday at 15:00 hours, every Thursday at 14:30 and on Saturday at 15:00 hours.  Thanks to our Media Partners!

More about the broadcasting of the TV and Radio spot

The UNICEF Belgrade Office, the Secretariat for Implementation of the National Strategy for Roma and  the Council of Europe will launch in Belgrade UNICEF’s report "Breaking the Cycle of Exclusion: Roma Children in South East Europe" and promote the Council of Europe/European Commission’s “Dosta!” campaign during a special event which will be held on 16 May, 2007 at the Media Centre, Sava Centre, Milentija Popovica Street no. 9, Belgrade. 

Breaking the Cycle of Exclusion: Roma Children in South East Europe report calls for immediate action on social exclusion of children in middle income countries. It focuses especially on Roma children and covers eight middle income states/entities in South East Europe which share similar characteristics: Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia.

The regional Festival “Art against stereotypes”  was organised by the Council of Europe in cooperation with the European Commission and the Minister of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports of Albania within the framework of the the Dosta! campaign and in occasion of the International Roma Day, the  8 April. 

The Festival took place in Tirana (Albania) at the International Centre of Culture, on 5-7 April 2007.