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Interference and influence on the final declaration!

Submitted by Ali Hamidian on Wed, 2005-11-30 14:02.

We, young anti-racist participants of the conference "European Youth in Action for Diversity and Tolerance" held on November 2005 in Berlin, would like to express our great dissatisfaction with the interference and influence by adult representatives from an outsider organization and some organizers of the conference on the final declaration and action plan that was handed over to European politicians and representatives of European institutions. Although we are satisfied with the conference in general, we believe that it is important to be honest to the young anti-racist participants and let them know about the fact that the editorial board was put under pressure under certain moments during the editing process. It is our strong belief that this honesty will reduce the critical voices and create faith in the conference and its organizers. Therefore, we kindly ask you to take necessary actions in order to prevent similar incidents of this nature taking place at future conferences by publishing and commenting on this statement on the conference homepage. We hope that our constructive criticism will help to improve future conferences further.


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