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Living-space availability – The results of the report show considerable differences between the Roma population and the general population. However, compared with the survey of Roma in 2011, all countries have improved their indicator of „living-space availability”. In this respect, Romania is mentioned as the country where the best improvement can be seen.

Quality of housing and environment – Romania is the only country where the share of Roma living in a polluted environment is less that of the general population.

Overall prevalence of discrimination – in comparison with the results of the survey for Roma in 2011, a decrease marked in this specific area can be observed only for Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania.

Country report of the European Commission 20172 Page 22-23 of the document:

„Poverty and social exclusion are particularly large among Roma. The risk of poverty for Roma is nearly three times higher compared to the general population. This is high compared with other Member State with a significant Roma minority (BG, CZ, HU, SK including RO), where the rate of poverty of the Roma is estimated to be between three to more than six times higher in relation to the rest of the population. Roma are concentrated in marginalized communities and approximately two-thirds live in houses lacking basic sanitation conditions. Increased use of dissuasive penalties, such as fines from the National Council for Combating is a promising evolution for the efficient strengthening of anti-discrimination norms”.

Amnesty International 2016/173 In the Amnesty International’s report on the situation of Human Rights in Romania, the Roma ethnics continue to be aimed by discrimination acts in Romania. The report notes that „in the report of April 2016, the UN special rapporteur on combating extreme poverty and for human rights, urged the authorities of Romania to admit the severe discrimination acts against the Roma, to implement the Strategy for Roma inclusion 2015-2020 and to take punctual measures in the areas of education, medical services and integration in the labour market, including by introducing safeguards to avoid forced evacuations and the improve- ment of access to social houses”.

Thus, “Roma continue to face systematic discrimination, forced evictions and other violations of human rights”, and with respect to violence against women, is underlined the existence of domestic violence cases and specified the entry into force in September 2016 of the Con- vention of Europe Council on the prevention and combating of violence against women and the violence.

As regards the monitoring mechanism required by the UN Convention on the rights of dis-

     2       https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/2017-european-semester-country-reports_en
     3       https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2017/02/amnesty-international-annual-
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