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Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Without Documents, Education and Employment - Danas

Ivana Stankovic from non-governmental organization Praxis, says in the interview for Daily Danas that impediments faced by "legally invisible" persons are numerous.

The first step they need to make is to subsequently register the fact of their birth in birth registries. However, they often cannot meet the necessary requirements prescribed by the law. In order to register in birth registries, they need to provide the data about their birth and origin, their parents' documents, etc. Moreover, there are many Roma families whose members do not have personal documents through generations, and who do not have basic data necessary for the registration in birth registries. At the same time, the parents who have no personal documents and who fail to subsequently register the fact of their birth, cannot register their children in birth registries either, which makes a vicious circle of "legally invisible" persons, says Ivana Stankovic.

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