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 …
An essay by Michal Mižigar on the origins and myths of April 8th.
After years of struggle led by victims of illegal sterilizations, the Czech Senate approved, in July 2021, a bill aimed at compensating the thousands of Roma women who were illegally sterilized by the Czechoslovak, then Czech, authorities. between 1966 and 2012.
A summary of the history and struggle.
The funeral of Pavlína Radlová, the founder of the R-mosty organisation was held in Prague last Friday.
May she rest in peace.
An article on Roma refugees from the Ukraine that were welcomed by Roma in the Moravian region of the Czech republic.
A reportage on the fate of Roma refugees from the Ukraine. And of course, discriminations exist.
The Romani writer Elena Lacková was born 101 years ago on March 22.
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.
No words …
Another article with more details about the roughly 500 Roma refugees from the Ukraine who made it to the Czech Republic.
A bus driver from the Czech Republic refused to take a Romni and child stuck at the Slovak border.
Roma are joining the movement helping refugees from the Ukraine.
Good!
One region in the Czech Republic is re-instating caretakers in Roma communities after a 5 year hiatus.
The Prague publishing house Kher publishes exclusively Romani literature. Recently, two extensive anthologies have been published: the first (Velvet blues) looks back on the 1990s, the second (Beauty is Everywhere) on the 20th century. One of the key figures in today’s Kher is the Romani filmmaker Karolína Ryvolová (1977).
According to the Czech Ombudsman, the bad situation in the Roma settlements is due to the Roma themselves.
He needs to be kicked out.
They not only face discrimination from the society at large, but also from their own families.
A literary contest in the Czech Republic.
On the commemoration of the Holocaust Remembrance in the Czech Republic, a region which basically eradicated all Roma during World War Two.
An activist fined for hanging a Czech Flag blended with a Roma one. What is going on?
A discussion with Karolína Ryvolová, romologue, translator. She did Romani Studies at the university, learnt Romanes, and became a translator and editor in the publisher “Kher”. She just published a book called “O mulo! Stories about the spirit of the dead”.
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