The report says that teachers' negative stereotypes lead to low expectations from Roma children and to other discriminatory relations, although cases of Roma-only classes are becoming rare.
Nearly 100 per cent of Roma children aged 8 to 12 attend school, but this percentage drops as children become older. The report says that in the end only 27 per cent of Roma children complete their primary education.
Amnesty International therefore recommended that the Croatian authorities take the necessary steps to include Roma culture, history and tradition in school curricula and to include Roma children in pre-school education programmes.
It also recommended employing Roma education advisors in all schools and pre-school institutions with a considerable number of Roma children.
The report focuses on the state of human rights of the Roma community in Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It says that the discrimination of Roma begins in primary school.
Extreme poverty, discrimination in school, lack of real inclusion of Roma children and multicultural school curricula prevent Roma children in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia from exercising their right to education, the report says.