ALL DIFFERENT, ALL EQUAL:
ECRI
10 years of combating racism

Palais de l’Europe, Room 1
Strasbourg, Thursday 18 March 2004

PROGRAMME

Chair: Mr Michael HEAD, Chair of ECRI

9:30	Opening
	Address by Mr Walter SCHWIMMER, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Address by Ms Rita VERDONK, Minister for Immigration and Integration of the Netherlands, on behalf of the Chair of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe Address by Mr Peter SCHIEDER, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Address by Mr Alvaro GIL-ROBLES, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
10:00 – 10:25	Presentation of ECRI’s “State of Play” by Mr Mark KELLY, Human Rights Consultants and Ms Isil GACHET, Executive Secretary to ECRI
10:25 – 10:55	Witnesses to ECRI’s action
	Ms Dimitrina PETROVA, Director of the European Roma Rights Centre
	Professor Jenny GOLDSCHMIDT, former Chair of the Dutch Equal Treatment Commission
	Ms Fatima ELHASSOUNI, Young Women from Minorities
10:55 – 11:30	Questions and comments from the floor
11:30 – 11:45	Coffee Break

Chair: Mr Frank ORTON, former Chair of ECRI


11:45 – 12:15	Insecurity and Fear of the Stranger in liquid-modern times by Professor Zygmunt BAUMAN, Philosopher and Sociologist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds
12:15 – 12:45	Discussions

12:45 – 14:15	Lunch Break
14:15 – 16:00	WORKSHOPS
Workshop I: “Combating racism while fighting terrorism”
	Chair: Professor Gün KUT, ECRI member Speaker: Mr Aaron RHODES, Executive Director of the International Helsinki Federation Rapporteur: Ms Claudia SCIOTTI, ECRI Secretariat
Workshop II: “Combating racism in the context of migration in Europe”
	Chair: Mr Fernando FERREIRA RAMOS, ECRI member Speaker : Ms Isabelle CHOPIN, Migration Policy Group Rapporteur: Mr Giancarlo CARDINALE, ECRI Secretariat
Workshop III: “Racism: a “mutating bacillus” – islamophobia, antisemitism and “cultural” racism as new challenges in our societies”
	Chair: Ms Winnie SORGDRAGER, ECRI member Speaker : Dr Neil MACMASTER, School of Economic and Social Studies, University of East Anglia Rapporteur: Ms Lanna HOLLO, ECRI Secretariat
16:00 – 16:15	Coffee Break

Chair: Mr Nikos FRANGAKIS, former Chair of ECRI

16:15 –16:45	Presentation of the findings of the Workshops by the Rapporteurs of the Workshops
16:45 –17:15	Discussions
17:15 – 17:45	ECRI and the Fight against Racism and Intolerance - THE WAY AHEAD by Ms Catherine LALUMIÈRE, Vice-President of the European Parliament, former Secretary General of the Council of Europe
17:45	Closing
17:45 – 19:00	Multicultural buffet and Jazz Manouche