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“We must change mentality to change reality ” Statement by Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe on the International Day of Tolerance

/noticias.info/ Strasbourg, 15.11.2006 - Sixty years ago, millions of people – Roma, Jews, Gay and Lesbian people - were murdered in Nazi death camps. Only a few neo-Nazis try to defend this atrocity, but the hard truth is that this experience changed little in the thinking of large numbers of their neighbours or the way minorities are treated in Europe. Even today, on the International Day of Tolerance, the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammerberg is in Slovenia as a result of reports that a Roma family has been moved from their home in order to protect them against their neighbours.

And Roma are not the only group in Europe suffering from prejudice and discrimination.

“All Different All Equal” is the slogan of a Council of Europe campaign against prejudice and discrimination. It is run by young people for young people. It is not enough to proclaim “never again”. Words must be translated into reality, and we must change mentality if we want to change reality.

For more info, see http://alldifferent-allequal.info/ or www.dosta.org

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