Govt. failing to address problem of "legally invisible"

The League for the Roma Decade wants the authorities to address the problem of “legally invisible people“, whose names are missing from electoral registers.

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Thursday, 12.02.2009.

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The League for the Roma Decade wants the authorities to address the problem of “legally invisible people“, whose names are missing from electoral registers. To begin with, it is necessary to adopt a law on recognition procedures for legal subjectivity. Govt. failing to address problem of "legally invisible" “It’s estimated that there are around 10,000 ’legally invisible people’, the majority of whom are members of the Roma community, which is on the very margins of society,“ says League coordinator Osman Balic. By protracting the problem of legal subjectivity, Roma are driven even further into social isolation and are thus prevented from exercising their basic rights and freedoms, such as the right to health and social welfare, education and the right to vote, explained Balic. “It’s unacceptable that Serbia has entered the fourth year of the Roma Decade and that no progress has been registered in systematically resolving the problem of the most at-risk, excluded category of people among the Roma population,“ he said. Balic pointed out that the full legal integration of these people required not only adoption of a law governing retrospective registration, but also changes to laws governing citizenship, personal ID numbers, and regular registration procedures for electoral and residential registers. Serbia is chairing the Roma Decade this year, which runs from 2005 until 2015.

Govt. failing to address problem of "legally invisible"

“It’s estimated that there are around 10,000 ’legally invisible people’, the majority of whom are members of the Roma community, which is on the very margins of society,“ says League coordinator Osman Balić.

By protracting the problem of legal subjectivity, Roma are driven even further into social isolation and are thus prevented from exercising their basic rights and freedoms, such as the right to health and social welfare, education and the right to vote, explained Balić.

“It’s unacceptable that Serbia has entered the fourth year of the Roma Decade and that no progress has been registered in systematically resolving the problem of the most at-risk, excluded category of people among the Roma population,“ he said.

Balić pointed out that the full legal integration of these people required not only adoption of a law governing retrospective registration, but also changes to laws governing citizenship, personal ID numbers, and regular registration procedures for electoral and residential registers.

Serbia is chairing the Roma Decade this year, which runs from 2005 until 2015.

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