A bad headline to say the least: Roma families in Munich and apparently endless issues.
An essay by Michal Mižigar on the origins and myths of April 8th.
Celebrations in Uzhgorod of the international Roma day. The Transcarpathian region of the Ukraine is one with the highest number of Roma in the country.
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.
Roma refugees from the Ukraine without valid documents are not welcome.
Bad.
An article about Poland at this year’s Venice Biennale.
The Strategy for Equality, Inclusion and Roma Participation until 2030 is now officially translated into a first action plan. The proposal of assignments and tasks for the period 2022 – 2024 was approved by the government at its Wednesday meeting.
The action plan proposes measures in five priority areas. The areas of employment, education, health and housing are key to meeting the goals of the strategy, special emphasis is also placed on intensifying interventions in the fight against anti-Roma racism.
Let’s see.
Or how a town sends Roma refugees from the Ukraine further away…
Some Romnja were prevented from leaving the Ukraine several times before being able to cross into Hungary.
Bad.
“A small town made up of Sinti and Roma” is developing on the Munich exhibition grounds. The member of parliament Andreas Lorenz (CSU) visited the exhibition halls on Sunday (March 3rd). His conclusion: “Today, 2,100 people are housed here. 1,200 of them are children. 90 percent are Sinti and Roma.” Apparently not all those who arrive come from the Ukraine. “Around 30 percent have no papers”, can be heard in the exhibition halls. Lorenz: “I found that many don’t even know the Ukrainian government districts.”
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.
Such articles do not help, but then, the facts are not good either.
A group of Roma refugees from the Ukraine rioted when they were told they would need to lodge in a gym. They were expecting a hotel…
The story of a refugee from North Macedonia in Germany, currently facing deportation.
Roma refugees from the Ukraine are complaining of discrimination in Germany.
Romani Rose, chairman of the Council of German Sinti and Roma denounces the racism shown by personnel from the Deutsche Bahn against Roma refugees from the Ukraine.
Especially the German train company should be somewhat cautious in this matter…
A description of the racist incident in the Manheim train station.
Slovakia has a big problem with discrimination against the Roma. Amnesty International, the world’s largest human rights NGO, has published its annual report on the state of human rights in the world in 2021 and the report highlights the problems with discrimination against Roma in the country.
According to this article, Roma in Poland had to move out of refugees’ quarters, as other refugees chased them out.
Bad.
A group of Roma soldiers has been serving on the war front line in Ukraine for two weeks now. They are all from one city, but now, like other Roma in Ukraine, they have volunteered to defend their homeland from a barbaric attack by the Russian army. “We get up at four or five in the morning, as needed. There are days when we don’t sleep at all,” says a Romani soldier from the Ukrainian army in an exclusive interview with ROMEA TV.
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