Monthly Archives: April 2022

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Hero

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Better housing, employment and better living conditions are to be brought by the HERO – Housing and Empowerment for Roma project, funded by the European Parliament to members of marginalized Roma communities. If the aid model implemented in five Slovak municipalities and others in Bulgaria and Romania proves successful, it is to be applied throughout Europe, as per Ingrid udviková from the Press Office of the European Commission (EC) in Slovakia.

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Venice Biennale

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A project by the Polish-Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas was inaugurated in the Polish pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. For the first time in the over 120-year history of the Biennale, the national pavilion is represented by a Roma artist. The pavilion opening ceremony was attended by: Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Wanda Zwinogrodzka, director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute Barbara Schabowska and director of Zachęta Janusz Janowski.

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Venice Biennale

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The art of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is an attempt or a tool to unlearn thinking that lead to the current war, say Joanna Warsza and Wojciech Szymański, curators of the exhibition “Przeczarowanie świat”, which will be shown at the Polish Pavilion in Venice as part of the Art Biennale 2022.

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Slovenia and Roma

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Jožek Horvat-Muc, president of the Roma Association of Slovenia (ZRS) was interviewed on the situation of Roma in Slovenia and on what still needs to be done. Horvat notes that each government has done something, but none has done enough.

Still a long way to go for this rather small minority.

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Czech Republic and Roma Refugees

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Simply they don’t want them.

The editor-in-chief of the Info.cz server, Michal Půr, went to the assistance centre for refugees, where Ukrainians are registered, and he was unpleasantly surprised by what he witnessed. He described on Twitter how he was shocked by the Roma camp and what would need to be improved within the organization without delay.

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Poland and Roma Refugees

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There is a bitter saying about the hospitality that the Polish government boasts in the world: everyone helps the Ukrainians, and the Roma help the Roma.

In brief, the Poles do not want them. At the end of March, when the war was already a month old, one of the volunteers said she called the voivode’s helpline to place a group of Ukrainian Roma in a refugee centre. She heard: “Gypsies have lice and we don’t take them.”

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Czech Republic, Roma Refugees and Hungarians

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There is more and more talk about refugees from Ukraine who have Hungarian passports in addition to Ukrainian citizenship. Politicians talk about these refugees mainly in connection with the Roma fleeing the Russian aggression in Ukraine. The South Moravian Governor Jan Grolich from KDU-ČSL was the first to mention “Hungarian Ukrainians” without any knowledge and context and to to accuse them to abuse social benefits in the Czech Republic. The mayor of the capital city of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, also justifies the Hungarian citizenship not to register them.

As said, the Orban government granted many residents of Transcarpathian Ukraine the Hungarian cisitzenship.

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Roma in Hungary

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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.

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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”.

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Romania and Roma

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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.

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Czech Republic and Roma Refugees

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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.

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Roma, Ukraine, and Covid

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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.

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Poland: Roma Settlement

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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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Ukrainian Refugees in the Czech Republic

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Ukrainian Roma who also hold a Hungarian passport, of which there are quite a few as Orban gave the citizenship to anyone speaking Hungarian in the Ukraine, face difficulties in the Czech Republic: They are denied help and being told to go to Hungary.

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EU Human Right Commissioner

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Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe Human Right commissioner stated “… my thoughts are with Ukrainian Roma who not only suffer from the consequences of the horrific war in Ukraine but also often face discrimination and prejudices in Europe when fleeing Ukraine.”

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Roma Refugees in the Czech Republic

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In an interview with Právo, the director of the non-profit organization Khamoro, which focuses on helping the Roma minority, explained why it is a problem for Roma refugees from Ukraine to find accommodation. It is called racism …

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