December 5, 2024 - rroma.org

Manchester Protests

December 5, 2024 Published by: Roma Foundation

A TV Reality Star, who was featured in “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” has been protesting the heavy handed intervention of the Manchester police who forcefully removed Roma from a Christmas market and put them in a train which left them stranded out of the city.

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty to lead protest after children ‘blocked from Manchester Christmas Market like Nazi Germany’. In: National World. 04.12.2024. https://www.nationalworld.com/news/uk/paddy-doherty-to-lead-protest-after-children-blocked-from-manchester-christmas-market-like-nazi-germany-4894631

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Germany: Prosecution

December 5, 2024 Published by: Roma Foundation

A hundred years old former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp will finally have to face prosecution for his crimes after a court overturned the decision of a lower court that he is unfit for trial.

A Frankfurt court has overturned a decision not to prosecute a former Nazi guard. In: Aurora Israel. 04.12.2024. https://aurora-israel.co.il/en/A-Frankfurt-court-has-overturned-a-decision-not-to-prosecute-a-former-Nazi-guard/
100-Jähriger kann als Nazi-Verbrecher angeklagt. In: Tachles. 05.12.2024. https://www.tachles.ch/artikel/news/100-jaehriger-kann-als-nazi-verbrecher-angeklagt-werden

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Research Grant

December 5, 2024 Published by: Roma Foundation

Ethnographer Martin Fotta from the Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic has received a prestigious grant from the European Research Council (ERC). His project, entitled “Roma Family in the Period of War” (RAW), received financial support of 2 million euros, or approximately 51 million crowns. The aim of the research is to understand how war conflicts and their consequences affected Roma kinship ties, family structures and community cohesion in different parts of Europe and the Middle East.

Jak války mění romské rodiny? Jak Romové v případě ohrožení mobilizují příbuzenské sítě? Český vědec získal prestižní grant na unikátní project. In: Romea. 03.07.2024. https://romea.cz/cz/domaci/jak-valky-meni-romske-rodiny-jak-romove-v-pripade-ohrozeni-mobilizuji-pribuzenske-site-cesky-vedec-ziskal-prestizni-grant-na-unikatni-projekt