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Ukraine and Roma
A help action organised for Romnja in the Ukraine.
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Slovak Police
A case of unlawful arrest and custody in Slovakia.
- ROMANI MAN WINS UNLAWFUL DETENTION CASE AGAINST SLOVAK POLICE. In: ERRC. 05.05.2022. http://www.errc.org/press-releases/romani-man-wins-unlawful-detention-case-against-slovak-police?fbclid=IwAR0AXuyb41txyKtcyg20LqmlMTnnk8iTNx4MaudkFkl5JeXxtTI16J4yRVo
Two more articles on the fact that Roma refugees from the Ukraine were offered housing in detention centres, and some refused.
Bad.
- Czech reporter: “Why are Romani refugees ending up in detention facilities? Because nobody else wants them!”. In: Romea. 03.05.2022. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-reporter-why-are-romani-refugees-ending-up-in-detention-facilities-because-nobody-else-wants-them
- Czech Republic’s second city sees Romani refugees from Ukraine sleeping in train station after refusing detention center accommodation. In: Romea. 03.05.2022. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-republic-apos-s-second-city-sees-romani-refugees-from-ukraine-sleeping-in-train-station-after-refusing-detention
Czech President
Well, what could you expect from him in any case …
- Czech President calls Romani refugees from Ukraine “economic migrants”. In: Romea. 02.05.2022. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-president-calls-romani-refugees-from-ukraine-economic-migrants
Roma Heroes
The fifth Roma Heroes Theatre Festival is taking place in Budapest.
- ROMA HEROES – V. INTERNATIONAL ROMA THEATRE FESTIVAL. https://independenttheater.hu/en/roma-heroes-v-international-roma-theater-festival/
Ukrainian Roma in the Czech Republic
Ukrainian Roma are looking for housing in vain. The last resort is the detention facility. And as some have a Hungarian passport, they are not welcome.
- Ukrajinští Romové marně hledají bydlení. Poslední instancí jsou detenční zařízení. In: Echo 24. 01.05.2022. https://echo24.cz/a/SJQzv/ukrajinsti-romove-marne-hledaji-bydleni-posledni-instanci-jsou-detencni-zarizeni
Roma Refugees in the Czech Republic
The story of a Roma family from the Ukraine, who, in spite of facing discrimination in the Czech Republic managed to get jobs and are now trying to find a more permanent place to stay.
- Nepřišli jsme krást koně, říká ukrajinská Romka. In: Novinky. 29.04.2022. https://www.novinky.cz/stalo-se/clanek/neprisli-jsme-krast-kone-rika-ukrajinska-romka-40395224
Slovenia and Roma
The Murska Sobota Development Center has organized a first “international” Roma conference at the RIS Dvorec Rakičan, aimed at exchanging views on education and political and social inclusion of the Roma community. The director of the Office for Nationalities, Stane Baluh, estimated that in Slovenia the legal and formal issues regarding participation are well regulated, but they are lame in practice.
Effectively, Roma are segregated…
- Na mednarodni romski konferenci predstavili primere dobrih praks. In: STA. 29.04.2022. https://www.sta.si/3031327/na-mednarodni-romski-konferenci-predstavili-primere-dobrih-praks
Review of the Biennale
Poland is represented this year by the exhibition “Charming the world” by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas. How was it created? And will it be possible to see it in Poland?
Roma culture is strongly associated with dance and music, but seldom with visual arts. This changes slowly, among others thanks to Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, who now represents Poland at the Venice Biennale – the most important event of this type in the world.
The artist is a Romni and has devoted all her work to date to the fight to change the historical narrative of the Roma community. Both the romantic one, showing the Roma people as free, dealing mainly with music and wandering around the world, and the ominous one – ascribing to them a tendency to cheat and trick others. She does it in an artistically original, intriguing and, above all, convincing way. – I don’t want to fight the whole world, naively thinking that it will suddenly change everything.
- Nie chcę walczyć z całym światem. Polska na Biennale w Wenecji. In: Polityka. 29.04.2022. https://www.polityka.pl/podkasty/kulturanaweekend/2163997,1,nie-chce-walczyc-z-calym-swiatem-polska-na-biennale-w-wenecji.read
Bulgaria and Roma
In Pleven, Bulgaria, Roma children will be included in sports clubs in football, tennis and basketball. The idea is to “socialise” children and students from ethnic minorities through sports, explained Ivaylo Lazarov, director of the Student Sports School (USS) in Pleven, which won funding for its project “To play sports together, albeit different”.
What this also implicitly says: Up till now, Roma children were not included … That says a lot.
- В Плевен приобщават ромски деца към спортни клубове по футбол, тенис и баскетбол. In: BTA. 28.04.2022. https://www.bta.bg/bg/news/bulgaria/257311-v-pleven-priobshtavat-romski-detsa-kam-sportni-klubove-po-futbol-tenis-i-basket
Poland: Memorial
A year ago, at the cemetery in Imbramowice, near Wrocław, the construction of a monument financed by the Institute of National Remembrance was completed on a collective grave of 50 Polish citizens of Roma nationality, murdered by the Germans on February 2 and 3, 1943 in Imbramowice and Wolbrom. At that time, due to the limitations related to the pandemic, it was not possible to consecrate the tombstone. It was successfully consecrated last Sunday.
- W Imbramowicach poświęcono pomnik pamięci Romów [ZDJĘCIA]. In: Olkuski Przeglad. 27.04.2022. https://przeglad.olkuski.pl/w-imbramowicach-poswiecono-pomnik-pamieci-romw-zdjecia/
Czech Republic and Roma Refugees
No comments …
- Czech Railways defends conductor who forced Romani refugee women with young children from Ukraine to disembark from train. In: Romea. 27.04.2022. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-railways-defends-conductor-who-forced-romani-refugee-women-with-young-children-from-ukraine-to-disembark-from-train
Ukraine’s Roma
Many Roma are fighting in the ranks of the Ukrainian army. They, however, fear that once the war is over, discriminations will return.
- Ukraine’s long-persecuted Roma minority joins war effort. In: Al Jazeera. 26.04.2022. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/26/ukraines-persecuted-roma-community-joins-war-effort
Czech Republic and Roma refugees
Roma refugees in Prague were housed in 4 large tents. Two of them have now been dismantled.
- Czech capital takes down two of the four large capacity tents where Romani refugees from Ukraine were being housed. In: Romea. 26.04.2022. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/img.php-capital-takes-down-two-of-the-four-large-capacity-tents-where-romani-refugees-from-ukraine-were-being-housed
Slovakia and Projects
Dozens of Roma civic activists from Gemer, Novohrad and Malohont in Slovakia have been participating in activities aimed at furthering their involvement in cultural, social and communal events in the region since the autumn of 2019. The project, implemented by the Láčho drom cultural and educational association from Kokava nad Rimavicou in the Poltár district, was supported by the European Social Fund through the Operational Program Effective Public Administration in the amount of EUR 338,625, of which five percent was co-financing.
- Rómski aktivisti sa učili pomáhať komunite riešiť problem. In: Teraz. 26.04.2022. https://www.teraz.sk/regiony/kokava-nad-rimavicou-romski-aktivisti/629023-clanok.html
Ukrainian Roma
They say it: Putin is killing us.
- Romani refugees from Ukraine pass through Czech Republic on their way to Germany, tell those aiding them that “Putin is killing us!” In: Romea. 25.04.2022. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/romani-refugees-from-ukraine-pass-through-czech-republic-on-their-way-to-germany-tell-those-aiding-them-that-putin-is
Czech Republic and Roma
The Czech interior minister agreed with Roma NGOs on how to better help Roma refugees from the Ukraine.
Good!
- Czech Interior Minister and Romani NGOs agree on closer collaboration to aid Romani refugees from Ukraine. In: Romea. 25.04.2022. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-interior-minister-and-romani-ngos-agree-on-closer-collaboration-to-aid-romani-refugees-from-ukraine
Czech Republic and Roma Holocaust
A former Czech MP has been sentenced to six months’ probation for denying the genocide of the Roma. In 2017, Miloslav Rozner of the right-wing party Freedom and Direct Democracy described the Roma concentration camp in Lety as a “non-existent pseudo-concentration camp”. A district court in Prague assessed this as a denial of the genocide of the Sinti and Roma. However, the judgment is not yet final.
- Leugnung des Holocaust: Tschechischer Ex-Parlamentarier erhält Bewährungsstrafe. In: Radio Prague. 25.04.2022. https://deutsch.radio.cz/leugnung-des-holocaust-tschechischer-ex-parlamentarier-erhaelt-bewaehrungsstrafe-8748661
Ustasha and Roma
Croatia for the first tie commemorated Roma victims of the Ustasha who literally killed the entire Roma population of Croatia. Meanwhile, the Jewish community declined to participate in the commemoration in Jasenovac, the infamous concentration camp. They are right, and Roma should do the same.
- Croatia commemorates Roma killed by Ustasha in WWII for the first time. In: Euractiv. https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/croatia-commemorates-roma-killed-by-ustasha-in-wwii-for-the-first-time/
- Roma Killed by Ustasha in WWII Commemorated. In: Total Croatia News. 24.04.2022. https://www.total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/62305-roma-killed-by-ustasha-in-wwii-commemorated
- Les Juifs boycottent de nouveau les commémorations de « l’Auschwitz croate ». In: Times of Israel. 22.04.2022. https://fr.timesofisrael.com/les-juifs-boycottent-de-nouveau-les-commemorations-de-lauschwitz-croate/
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