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Jonathan Mack (born 10 January 1984 in
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, Germany) is a German human rights activist, educator and scholar. Mack has a diploma in political sciences of the
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, and currently works as political advisor at the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma. Since 2006 he supported various local, national and international Roma youth organizations to develop youth strategies and programs for the empowerment and active citizenship of Roma youth, and to combat Antigypsyism. Mack established with various Roma youth organizations the ternYpe International Roma Youth Network in 2009, and developed the Roma Genocide Remembrance Initiative to commemorate and lobby for the political recognition of the
porajmos The Romani Holocaust was the genocide of European Roma and Sinti people during World War II. Beginning in 1933, Nazi Germany systematically persecuted the European Roma, Sinti and other peoples pejoratively labeled 'Gypsy' through forcible ...
. From 2012 until 2015 he worked as the managing director of the Phiren Amenca International Network, based in Budapest. Jonathan Mack worked as freelance trainer and facilitator on issues of Antigypsyism, human rights, remembrance and Holocaust education with the
Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; , CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it is Europe's oldest intergovernmental organisation, represe ...
, and various international youth organizations. He has a long time experience regarding youth policies and programs on UN, EU and German federal level.


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