Bucharest, November 5th, 2015. European Centre for The Rights of Children with Disabilities expresses its deep concern about the appointment as Interim Premier of Mr. Sorin CÂMPEANU, Minister of National Education.
Although we understand that it is an interim mandate, governed by law, we consider that this appointment represents a defiance to the hundreds of thousands of parents of children with disabilities in Romania, whose children have no access to education, are heavily discriminated and mostly isolated in special schools.
As noted repeatedly, in Romania, there are over 70,000 children with disabilities.
18.000 ARE NOT ENROLLED IN SCHOOLS
31.000 are isolated in special schools
In five years, only 39 children with disabilities were able to get out of special schools and enroll in mass schools in Bucharest.
The Ministry of Education spends annually more than 100 million euros for special schools. However, these money never reach the schools, for the children’s needs, but are being lost in the County Councils.
About all these questions, as well as numerous abuses, molestations and physical, emotional and verbal aggression of children with disabilities in schools, Mr. Sorin Campeanu was repeatedly informed by our organization, hundreds of parents, representatives of international bodies informed of the dramatic situation of children with disabilities in Romanian schools, by the media.
All these measures and requests went unanswered.
In this context, we urge the withdrawal of the mandate as Interim Premier of Mr. Sorin Campeanu and the avoidance of any possibility of renaming him in a similar position in the Romanian government.
Furthermore, we would like to emphasis the fact that the public policies and decisions made by Mr. Sorin Campeanu, as Minister of Education reiterated and deepened the massive violation of international regulations in force regarding the right to inclusive education of children/people with disabilities, being the tributary of the outdated and discriminatory mechanisms promoted by the Ministry of Education and Scientific Research.
Additional information about the violation of the rights of children with disabilities concerning education, the precariousness of the services offered, about isolation, abuses and discrimination against them under the direct coordination of the Minister of Education, can be found in international reports effected by representatives of the Council of Europe, United Nations etc.
Children with disabilities in Romania and their parents are Romanian citizens with equal rights, no longer willing to remain insignificant and invisible for the government. For the simple reason that this means the SOCIAL DEATH OF OUR CHILDREN.
In this context, the European Centre for the Rights of Children with Disabilities initiated a process of forming a coalition of parents of children with disabilities to ensure that the rights of our children will be respected.
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Mădălina Turza
Email: madalina.turza@cedcd.ro
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