Hungary did commemorate the Rroma Holocaust Remembrance day and even unveiled a memorial to it. Frankly said, they should rather ponder about their history (after all, they deported pretty much all Jews and some Rroma by themselves without assistance), and about the future, namely the extreme racism against Rroma in that country.
An interview of the 17 years old Gilda Lakatos who is set to be deported next week back to Hungary.
A humanitarian application has been deposed for the Lakatos family who is due to be deported on August 11. Advocacy groups are urging the government to consider this application prior to this date.
Several hundred people, about half of which are Rroma are facing eviction in Szekesfehervar, a small city near Budapest. The leases are simply not renewed and people are evicted. Some Rroma reported being told that “the borders are open” …
BAD, and a pattern in Hungary.
Interesting interview and overview of Hungary’s current state. Read the part on Rroma too.
The Lakatos family who had a reprieve two weeks ago has now been definitively ordered to leave Canada by August 11th. They have no possibilities left to appeal. This decision prompted protests in solidarity with the family.
The Rroma Family from Hungary has been granted a reprieve. For how long, this is not clear.
As we write, the Lakatos family will probably have returned to Hungary. Their permit expired yesterday, and bar a miracle, they will have had to leave.
An article which summarises the interview from Viktor Orban in the Frankfurter Allgemeine. To quote him: “in Hungary we must integrate hundreds of thousands of our Roma compatriots into the labour market.” This is a good excuse for a lot of things. An in terms of work integration, they have come up with the mandatory Közmunka, a source of cheap labour…
Yet another family of Hungarian Rroma refugees in Canada is facing potential deportation back to Hungary.
Bad …
What a joke … According to Mr. Zoltan Balog, the Hungarian minister for Human Resources, the situation of Rroma improved over the last two years in Hungary. Specifically, 50’000 Rroma have found new jobs. What he forgets to say is that these jobs are in the so-called Közmunka – or mandatory work scheme that replaced social care.
This is total BS…
Hungary is fast approaching the deadline of its response to the European Commission letter on the segregation of Rroma in schools. The government is procrastinating… Janos Lazar, a prominent member of the government went as far as saying he has “no idea how the European Commission knows who is and isn’t a gypsy”. Well, if he ever set his foot in a village, and went to a school, he’d know.
The EU is saying that Rroma children are still being segregated in schools in the EU. Although the article doesn’t mention it, Hungary is at the forefront of this segregation, flowed by other ex-Austro Hungarian monarchy countries.
SHAME!
A Rroma refugee family from Hungary who was deported in 2014 was allowed to return to Canada!
An article about the far right movements, especially in Slovakia and Hungary, who, before they demonised Moslems and Migrants in general, were extensively anti-Rroma, and also anti-Jewish.
The EU started a procedure against the segregation of schooling for Rroma in Hungary. This is good, but let’s not forget that the government openly suggests this segregation is for the good of the Rroma.
An article about Rroma and higher education. However, saying that Hungary “leads the way” is truly misleading.
An article about the Hungarian collective “Most”, engaging itself for Migrants and Rroma.
Well done!
The EU warned Hungary about the discrimination of Rroma in the country’s school system. De facto, schools are segregated and Rroma are not give a chance to Rroma. This segregation is encouraged at top level, for example by the Minister of Human Resources, Zoltan Balog.
Timea Junghaus, a Rromni artist on Art as a mean of resistance in Viktor Orban’s Hungary.
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