Monthly Archives: March 2022

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German Trains and Roma

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Romani Rose, chairman of the Council of German Sinti and Roma denounces the racism shown by personnel from the Deutsche Bahn against Roma refugees from the Ukraine.

Especially the German train company should be somewhat cautious in this matter…

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Manheim and Ukrainian Roma

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A description of the racist incident in the Manheim train station.

Europe

Roma Movement

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The traumatic events that Sinti and Roma have been confronted with in the past few decades have led to a special emphasis on self-empowerment. They still have to deal with stereotypes on a daily basis, and only a few manage – against all odds – to build a balanced life for themselves. This led to a shift in focus – away from seeking validation in society and towards self-empowerment and healing. This new basis of the Roma movement aims to regain authority over its own representation and knowledge production.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia and Roma

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Slovakia has a big problem with discrimination against the Roma. Amnesty International, the world’s largest human rights NGO, has published its annual report on the state of human rights in the world in 2021 and the report highlights the problems with discrimination against Roma in the country.

News Eastern Europe Ukraine

Interview

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A group of Roma soldiers has been serving on the war front line in Ukraine for two weeks now. They are all from one city, but now, like other Roma in Ukraine, they have volunteered to defend their homeland from a barbaric attack by the Russian army. “We get up at four or five in the morning, as needed. There are days when we don’t sleep at all,” says a Romani soldier from the Ukrainian army in an exclusive interview with ROMEA TV.

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Hungarian Elections

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A campaign is underway in Hungary to prevent vote buying among Roma, a practice that is quite common unfortunately. The Clean Vote campaign is trying to draw attention to electoral abuses, mostly in poor Roma settlements. “Unfortunately, thousands of people in Hungary are influenced in the exercise of their voting rights. This endangers the cleanliness of the elections, thus the democratic system of Hungary, ” they write on their website.

Their advice: “Even if you accept 5-10 thousand forints, no one can enter the booth with you” …

France News Western Europe

French Chronicle …

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Near a Roma camp in the north of France, there are pestilential odours, which according to Roma activists have nothing to do with the Roma and the camp. Two camps evacuated near Paris, one in Argenteuil, one in Compans, the later with a huge amount of garbage.

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Slovenia and Roma

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The Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša stated in the National Assembly that they had dealt a lot with Roma issues during this term, especially within a special working group, and that the number of crimes committed by members of the Roma community had decreased.

The fact that he only referenced Roma crimes tells you how people in that country consider Roma.
Bad.

News Eastern Europe Ukraine

Uzhhorod and Roma Refugees

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A reportage in the Western Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod, near the Slovak and Hungarian borders, a city with a large Roma minority which now takes care of many additional Roma refugees from other places in the Ukraine.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe Ukraine

Czechia and Roma refugees

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An article about Roma refugees from the Ukraine in the Czech Republic. The article cites roughly 500 Roma, mostly women with small children, and mostly from Western Ukraine – the region around Uzhgorod.

Main problem, the language barrier.

News Eastern Europe Serbia

Serbian Elections

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Roma in Serbia are being courted by all parties, as usual, and being promised a lot or bought outright. The electoral list “Roma Patria – Srdjan Šajn” called on the citizens today to take whatever is being offered to in exchange for votes, but to vote according to their conscience, noting that “buying votes is a collapse of democracy”.

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