A reportage in Nyiregyhaza, in Eastern Hungary, in a day care centre in a Roma settlement. What the reportage omits to say here, is that these schools and day-care centres are de-facto segregated, as no non-Roma ever goes there. De facto, this perpetuates the segregation.
A fire in a camp in Toulouse, one in Nantes, a Rom sentenced for having stabbed another one in Montpellier, and finally a movie “la jeunesse Rom”.
Gelu Duminică holds a PhD in Sociology and is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest. As a civic activist, he is the executive director of the Together Community Development Agency Foundation, which deals with the many issues facing the Roma ethnic group in Romania.
This interview tries to shed light on some of the difficulties faced by the Roma and the solutions offered by the Together Foundation.
The authorities in the Czech Republic are effectively refusing to register Roma refugees from the Ukraine and send them further to Hungary and to Germany. Officially, the reason is that many of these refugees also have a Hungarian passport, something that Orban granted to many resident of the Transcarpathian Ukraine.
Misinformation on the covid vaccination among Roma in the Ukraine is widespread and many if most Roma refused to be vaccinated. Here, 100 of them got their vaccination.
The bad conditions in the Roma housing estate in Maszkowice (Małopolskie Voivodeship) have not improved, the Commissioner for Citizens’ Rights is alerting. The residents of the estate have lived in terrible conditions for years. The commune has not done anything to improve the situation and the Human Rights Defender is intervening.
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