The cold weather and rainfall did not prevent members of the Roma Women 's Association "Bolja buducnost“from Tuzla to hold street action and send a message on December 10th the International Human Rights Day that they are among the most vulnerable categories of our society.
By symbolically organizing this event on Human Rights Day, we wanted to draw public attention to the position of Roma women in B&H. Roma women, like all other women in BH society, find themselves in a more difficult position than men in terms of employment, education, political participation; However, in addition to all of the above, Roma women face widespread discrimination and stereotypes that place them at the very margins of society.
International Human Rights Day is marking on the day when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948, and for the first time in human history, the right of all people to "life, liberty and security ... without distinction" is recognized.
The street action was implemented as a final activity as part of a global campaign of 16 days of activism, and as part of the regional project "For active inclusion and rights of Roma women in the Western Balkans III", supported by the Austrian Development Agency and the Czech Development Cooperation through CARE International, Balkans.