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Slovakia and Roma

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Slovakia and Roma

A congress of young Roma was held in Bratislava from Friday, April 8th,  to Sunday. It was attended by 40 young people from Roma communities from all over Slovakia, who want to contribute to the positive changes concerning the life of Roma and coexistence with other inhabitants of Slovakia.

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Slovakia and Roma

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The Slovak President, Ms. Zuzana Čaputová received  Roma students in the context of the International Roma Day. She stated that the state should take all necessary systemic steps to give Roma children equal opportunities and that it is also necessary to work on personal attitudes so that people are not judged according to skin colour or ethnicity, but personal qualities.

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Slovakia: Action Plan

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Slovakia: Action Plan

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.

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Slovakia and Roma

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Slovakia and Roma

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.

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Racism and Refugees

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Racism and Refugees

Better not be Rom or African at the Ukrainian Slovak border. Bus drivers there refused Roma, even forbade them the use of toilets, and many of them were left for days at the border.

Bad.

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Roma in Slovakia

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Roma in Slovakia

A worrisome trend in Slovakia where Roma communities are moved out to outskirts or in formerly vacant buildings and left to rot there. Basically, municipalities try to get rid of Roma and minimise investment to Roma neighbourhood.

Bad.

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Slovakia and Roma Refugees

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Slovakia and Roma Refugees

The pastoral centre has become a refuge for Ukrainian Roma who crossed to the border crossing in Veľké Slemence into Slovakia. The pastor of the Apostolic Church, Marek Gombár, brings them with volunteers to Pavloviec nad Uhom, about 17 kilometres away.

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Slovakia: Roma Action Plan

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Slovakia: Roma Action Plan

The EU driven Strategy for Equality, Inclusion and Roma Participation until 2030 takes the form of the first action plan. The proposal of assignments and tasks for the period 2022-2024 was submitted by the Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic to an interdepartmental comment procedure.

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.

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Slovakia, Workers, and Roma

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Slovakia, Workers, and Roma

Jan Hero, the plenipotentiary for Roma Communities for the Slovak Government, highlighted the fact that Slovakia import workers, from the Ukraine and other countries while not giving work to their own Roma.

He praised all Roma working.

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LGBT+ in Central Europe

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LGBT+ in Central Europe

They not only face discrimination from the society at large, but also from their own families.

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Slovakia, Roma, and the EU

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Up to one billion Euro is earmarked for Roma integration from the EU. In addition. Another 150 Mio are to be granted as part of the Covid Recovery. This is quite a sum, but how will it be spent?

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Slovakia, the Police, and Roma

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Slovakia, the Police, and Roma

The Slovak Roma Union went to court for an alleged attack by a policeman against 5 Roma children in a Roma settlement during a quarantine. The children apparently had strayed too far from the settlement.

In a resolution on January 20, the investigator referred to a section of the Criminal Procedure Code, which states that the prosecution is stopped if “there is no doubt that the act for which the prosecution is being conducted has not occurred”.

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Slovakia, Corona, and Roma

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In socially excluded Roma groups in Slovakia, the number of deaths in earlier waves of coronavirus infection grew twice as fast as in the majority population. At the same time, the Covid-19 epidemic has halted the increasing employment of Roma, and the negative effects of the coronavirus crisis may be more pronounced for this group of Roma, as up to four-fifths of them were already at risk of poverty before the pandemic.

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