Three small children play in front of their mud house in Svinia in
Slovakia, 400km east of the capital Bratislava August 16, 2001. The
Roma issue will be a key point at the United Nations conference againt
racism in Durban, South Africa, which starts August 31. Dimintrina
Petrova, the director of the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) in
Budapest said for the first time, Roma will ask the world to recognize
the discrimination they face in Europe.

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