- setting up a reporting and evaluation mechanism for measures and activities aimed at providing
Roma with identification documents and birth registration.
D. Outreach, awareness-raising and information campaigns
The Ukrainian authorities should also initiate a nationwide awareness-raising and information
campaign on the importance of obtaining identification and civil registration documents, and
especially registration at birth.
This campaign should be:
- developed in close co-operation with Roma community representatives and civil society
organizations;
- target both the Roma and the non-Roma community, as well as public officials, civil servants
and judges;
- particularly target the vulnerable populations among the Roma community (Roma women,
displaced Roma, stateless Roma, etc.);
- target patterns of discrimination and prejudice against the Roma community and promote
positive examples and success stories about Roma access to identification documents and birth
registration.
In addition to the awareness-raising and information campaigns, the Ukrainian authorities should
also introduce a nationwide system of trainings and capacity building activities for civil servants
and the judiciary.
Ukrainian authorities should also pay particular attention to recent developments that may affect
Roma access to personal documents, such as:
- the ongoing reform of the identification management system;
- the specific situation of Roma displaced persons from Eastern Ukraine and Crimea and the
challenges they face in obtaining or restoring their documents and accessing basic economic and
social rights and services;
- the particular issues Roma women and girls face related to access to identification documents
and birth registration, such as early and child marriages, home births and the lack of medical
assistance and birth registration in such cases; and
- other relevant cross-cutting issues, such as discrimination and prejudice towards Roma in
Ukraine and the social exclusion and deep poverty that Roma without personal documents in
Ukraine experience.
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