Dokument #1161792
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
The national office of the Roma Minority Self-Government (Orszagos Cigany Onkormanyzat, OCO) is located at 76 Dohány Street in Budapest (Hungary 2 May 2003; Romano Vod'i 13 July 2003).
A table provided by the Hungarian Office for National and Ethnic Minorities (Nemzeti és Etnikai Kisebbségi Hivatalnál, NEKH) lists 753 local Roma self-government offices in Hungary in 1999 (Hungary 12 Oct. 1999). By June 2000, the number of offices had decreased to 738 (ibid. 30 June 2000). The following list indicates the number of local Roma minority self-government offices existing at the end of June 2000 per Hungarian district (listed alphabetically):
Similar data for the years between 2001 and
2003 was not available in NEKH's document archive, and was not
found among the sources consulted for this Response.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
References
Hungary. 2 May 2003. Office for
National and Ethnic Minorities. Judit Solymosi. "List of Addresses
of the National Minority Self-Governments of Hungary." (MINELRES
List Service) http://lists.delfi.lv/pipermail/minelres/2003-May/002700.html
[Accessed 14 July 2003]
_____. 30 June 2000. Office for National
and Ethnic Minorities. "The Number of Local Minority
Self-Governments in Hungary at 30 June 2000 Per Minorities,
Counties and Capital's Districts." http://www.meh.hu/nekh/Angol/data2_2000.htm
[Accessed 14 July 2003]
_____. 12 October 1999. Office for
National and Ethnic Minorities. "The Number of Local Minority
Self-Governments in Hungary at 12 October 1999 Per Minorities,
Counties and Capital's Districts." http://www.meh.hu/nekh/Angol/9_1012diagr.htm
[Accessed 14 July 2003]
Romano Vod'i [Prague]. 13 June
2003. Judit Solymosi. "National Minority Self-Governments
Established." http://www.romea.cz/English/index.php?id=servis/z_en_2003_0003
[Accessed 14 July 2003]
Additional Sources Consulted
Internet sites, including:
Balkan Academic News (Yahoo News
Group)
European Roma Rights Center
Hungarian government home page
Hungarian Quarterly
Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority
Issues in Europe
Minority Electronic Resources
Information Network (MINELRES)
RomaNation
Location of the National and Local Roma Self Government offices [HUN41726.E] (Anfragebeantwortung, Französisch)