A plaque commemorating the 600th anniversary of the first testimony of the arrival of Roma in Bologna and Italy was unveiled.
Two camping sites for travellers are planned on the left bank of the lake of Zurich. Needless to say, the communes are against it.
Bajram Haliti, a Roma-Serbian politician, journalist, publicist and writer passed away. He was born in Gnjilan, Kosovo, in 1955. He was a prolific writer and journalist.
May he rest in peace.
Radoslav Ganev came to Germany with his mother at the age of 9. They are Roma. But nobody should know it and it stayed that way for a long time. As a native Bulgarian and naturalized German, Radoslav Ganev finishes his high school diploma in Trier, studied political science in Bamberg and now works in the social sector in Munich. At the age of thirty, he decided to no longer hide his ethnic origins.
Fred Taikon has devoted his entire life to improving the situation of the Roma in Sweden and the world. For his work he has received a medal from the government and has now been nominated for the Raoul Wallenberg Prize.
The situation of Roma students in Hungarian schools is critical: segregation is not decreasing, and only half a percent of them go to university. The Romaversitas foundation helps them progress from the 9th grade all the way to graduation. But fewer and fewer people apply to them. They try to equip their students with an activist approach and “talk them out” so that an intellectual Roma stratum with a strong ability to assert their interests can be formed.
Another Slovak article about the visit of EU MPs in Slovakia where they were shocked by how neglected some Roma communities are in the east of Slovakia. They stated: “It is absolutely scandalous that European citizens still do not have access to drinking water in the 21st century. It is a shame for Slovakia and a shame for Europe that some Roma live in medieval conditions.”
A testimony of Roma parents faced with racism against their children and faced with the outright discrimination from teachers.
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Plovdiv (Bulgaria) Residents of neighbourhoods bordering the Stolipinovo Mahala (Roma neighbourhood) are complaining about the noise resulting from weddings in the Mahala.
A delegation of EU parliamentarians visited Slovakia to see how EU funds were used by the country. They found the situation in Roma settlements “scandalous” and were shocked by the lack of amenities and services in these settlements. This could cost Slovakia quite a bit of EU funds.
A video on one of the most polluted Roma settlements in Romania.
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An interview and discussion with Romani Rose, the chairman of the German Council of Sinti and Roma.
According to the chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee for Regional Development, Younous Omarjee, the situation in the Roma settlements in Slovakia is an absolute scandal and a shame for the European Union and Slovakia. He stated this after visiting a Roma settlement in the village of Petrovce nad Laborcom (Michalovce district) on Thursday.
Commemoration of the 78th anniversary of the liquidation by the Germans of the so-called of the Gypsy camp will be held on August 2 at the former KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the Association of the Roma in Poland announced on Wednesday. August 2 is the Day of Remembrance for the Genocide of the Roma. During World War II, the Germans killed about 500,000. Roma and Sinti.
A special exhibition on the Nazi genocide of Sinti and Roma can currently be visited in Frankfurt. It shows video interviews by survivors where they say “things they’ve never said before.”
The demolition of the pig fram on the site of the former Roma concentration camp of Lety can begin. It took time.
A local action of a Roma association painted an ugly wall in a Roma settlement in Nitra. The association is helping keep the place clean and safe.
An article about a football legend in Yugoslavia, Jože Horvat who grew up in Slovenia in a Roma settlement.
The Serbian folk singer Nadica Ademov who here admits playing at Roma wedding and states that a large part of her revenues come from those sometimes lavish events.
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