UN urges EU to help Roma children

According to a Unicef report, about 1 million Roma children in Southeast Europe remain without documents or decent healthcare.

For those who don't know of the Roma, they are the people commonly misreferred to as "Gypsies". A few years ago the Roma were given status as an indigenous people of Europe. The Roma have long been discriminated against, particularly in country like Romania and Bulgaria. In those two countries, which are fairly new member states of the European Union, up to 1/3 of Roma children were not in school. The number is even worse in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where 80% of Roma children do not attend school. Due to rampant poverty throughout areas of Southeast Europe, around 50,000 Roma children live in Germany as refugees. This, of course, predicates a vicious cycle: when these children go up, they will not be able to provide documents, schooling, or healthcare for their children, and so on.