Pull the Brake Against Roma Discrimination

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2015

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Diversity, Hate Speech, Roma, Technology

Medium

Awareness Campaign

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Pull the Brake Against Roma Discrimination was a large-scale awareness campaign fighting Antiziganism in Europe. The campaign deals with on- and offline methods and runs simultaneously in Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia.

It was conducted across 17 cities and is available in 13 different languages. The project partner was the civil society organization “Balkans, let’s get up!”. The Open Society Foundation was a partner on the Slovakian side of the project.

This project was made possible with the generous support of:

Balkans, let's get up!

Open Society Foundation

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