Monthly Archives: January 2022

In socially excluded Roma groups in Slovakia, the number of deaths in earlier waves of coronavirus infection grew twice as fast as in the majority population. At the same time, the Covid-19 epidemic has halted the increasing employment of Roma, and the negative effects of the coronavirus crisis may be more pronounced for this group of Roma, as up to four-fifths of them were already at risk of poverty before the pandemic.

• Zomieralo viac Rómov. Vylúčené komunity čelili počas epidémie vyššiemu prírastku úmrtí. In: TA3. 30.01.2022. https://www.ta3.com/clanok/225391/zomieralo-viac-romov-vylucene-komunity-celili-pocas-epidemie-vyssiemu-prirastku-umrti

Representatives of the civic association eduRoma claim in an open letter that the Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic Igor Matovič (OĽaNO) is building rough walls between the current government of the Slovak Republic and the civic sector.

The controversy follows the allocation of 330’000 EUR to the Conference of  Bishops of Slovakia to support missionary pastoral work in Roma communities and ignoring the work of other NGOs and churches.

• Organizácie na podporu Rómov kritizovali Matoviča za účelové financovanie. In: SME. 28.01.2022. https://domov.sme.sk/c/22829873/organizacie-na-podporu-romov-kritizovali-matovica-za-ucelove-financovanie.html

Where are the Roma in the Census? There is a lot of excitement, even outrage at the fact that Roma in their large majority, did not declare themselves as Roma in the latest Slovak census, but rather as Slovak or in quite a few cases as Hungarians.

Well, first, they are Slovaks… Whether the majority population likes it or not. Second, asking for ethnicity is fraught with problems. Third, the main reason people will not declare themselves as a minority is simple: Racism and discrimination. That question is absent from the articles on the topic.

Sad.

• Nie som Róm, ale Slovák. Podľa sčítania zmizla vyše polovica Rómov na východe. In: Korzar. 26.01.2022. https://korzar.sme.sk/c/22828094/nie-som-rom-ale-slovak-podla-scitania-zmizla-vyse-polovica-romov-na-vychode.html