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Slovenian Pilgrimage

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Roma have been participating in this pilgrimage in Brezje, Slovenia for a century. Usually set a week before Mary’s Assumption day, during the festivities, they help carry the image of Mary from the church to a nearby park and back to church, a trip symbolizing the search for an abode that Mary and Josef had to do.

After two years where the feast was cancelled because of Corona, it takes place again. But the local authorities do not want to provide a place where the Roma could stay during the pilgrimage, in fact, preventing them from attending. This is bad, but in view of the general view of Roma in Slovenia, not surprising.

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Slovenia Holocaust Commemoration

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A word of warning during the Slovenian commemoration of the Roma Holocaust Day in view of hate speech and racism towards Roma.

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Training in Rome

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Training in Rome

End of June or at the beginning of July, youth workers from the Society for the Development of Voluntary Work Novo mesto Anisa, Enja, Teo and Tina were in a hurry in Rome, where they took part in the Erasmus+ project Stop Antigypsysim. Together with participants from Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Bulgaria and Montenegro, they discussed the Roma issue, the situation of Roma in the participating countries, and also had the opportunity to get to know Rome, the Vatican and the beach in Ostia.

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Not Sure …

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Not Sure …

A survey conducted by Laura Kovač, a student at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia, as part of her master’s thesis, showed that Roma students in Prekmurje and Dolenjska feel comfortable in primary school. Discrimination and stereotypes are still present, but Roma students mostly describe school relations as good.

Somewhat doubtful…

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Slovenia and Roma

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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…

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Slovenia and Roma

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Slovenia and Roma

Jožek Horvat-Muc, president of the Roma Association of Slovenia (ZRS) was interviewed on the situation of Roma in Slovenia and on what still needs to be done. Horvat notes that each government has done something, but none has done enough.

Still a long way to go for this rather small minority.

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Slovenia and Roma

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The Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša stated in the National Assembly that they had dealt a lot with Roma issues during this term, especially within a special working group, and that the number of crimes committed by members of the Roma community had decreased.

The fact that he only referenced Roma crimes tells you how people in that country consider Roma.
Bad.

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Slovenia and Roma

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Slovenia and Roma

An unfortunately typical rant against Roma in the Slovene press. In this case, a person complaining that effectively Roma misuse social care money, that many underage woman have children, and that the Roma know “which button to press in Brussels”.

Maybe they should start by ending discrimination …

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Roma Settlement in Slovenia

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Roma Settlement in Slovenia

Although the municipality of Škocjan does not officially have an autochthonous Roma minority and thus no Roma councillor, there are more Roma there every year. More than three hundred Roma already live in two settlements in Dobruška. This means that in a municipality with about 3,400 inhabitants, about ten percent of the Roma population already has. The school already has a fifth or 20 percent of schoolchildren are Roma children.

The settlements have water, and the municipality installed chemical toilets.

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Slovenia and Roma

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An article n the Slovenian press on Roma stressing the need for education for Integration.

– Položaj Romov. In: Radio Prvi. 08.04.2019. https://radioprvi.rtvslo.si/2019/03/studio-ob-17-ih-147/ [link-preview url=”https://radioprvi.rtvslo.si/2019/03/studio-ob-17-ih-147/”]

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Slovenia and Burials

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The central cemetery of Žale in Ljubljana is still refusing to re-bury Roma victims of World War Two…
No comments …

– Javno podjetje Žale še kar zavrača pokop izvensodno umorjenih Romov. In: Reporter. 08.01.2019. https://reporter.si/clanek/slovenija/javno-podjetje-zale-se-kar-zavraca-pokop-izvensodno-umorjenih-romov-680079 [link-preview url=”https://reporter.si/clanek/slovenija/javno-podjetje-zale-se-kar-zavraca-pokop-izvensodno-umorjenih-romov-680079″]

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Slovenia – No Comments

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The Slovenian state wants to bury the Roma killed during World War Two in the central Ljubljana cemetery of Žale, but the cemetery management rejects it, which is unheard of. The victims were killed by Partisan units between 1941 and 1945.

– “Nezaslišano in nesprejemljivo”: Janković Romov, ki so jih ubili partizani, ne pusti pokopati na Žalah, je ogorčen Stres. In: Reporter. 20.12.2018. https://reporter.si/clanek/slovenija/nezaslisano-in-nesprejemljivo-jankovic-romov-ki-so-jih-ubili-partizani-ne-pusti-pokopati-na-zalah-je-ogorcen-stres-677143
– Na Žalah zavračajo obtožbe o nespoštovanju do pokojnih Romov. In: SIOL. 20.12.2018. https://siol.net/novice/slovenija/na-zalah-zavracajo-obtozbe-o-nespostovanju-do-pokojnih-romov-486091
– Pravica do pokopa Romov na Žalah. In: Družina. 21.12.2018. https://www.druzina.si/ICD/spletnastran.nsf/clanek/pravica-do-pokopa-romov-na-zalah [link-preview url=”https://reporter.si/clanek/slovenija/nezaslisano-in-nesprejemljivo-jankovic-romov-ki-so-jih-ubili-partizani-ne-pusti-pokopati-na-zalah-je-ogorcen-stres-677143 “]

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Slovenia: More to Do

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The Council of Europe chided Slovenia in its report on the framework convention on the protection of national minorities and asked the country to do more against hate speech.

– CoE: Slovenia urged to secure more Roma rights, fight hate speech. In: STA. 29.10.2018. https://english.sta.si/2568740/coe-slovenia-urged-to-secure-more-roma-rights-fight-hate-speech [link-preview url=”https://english.sta.si/2568740/coe-slovenia-urged-to-secure-more-roma-rights-fight-hate-speech”]

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Interview

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An interview with a social worker in Slovenia on Roma. She rightly says that the way they live is not reflecting their culture but rather is the result of their poverty.

– Natalija Djoković iz društva Mozaik: Rasizem je postal resnično odprt, za kritiko pa se prostor vse bolj zapira. In: Delo. 05.10.2018. https://www.delo.si/lokalno/ljubljana-in-okolica/to-ni-romska-kultura-to-je-revscina-98955.html [link-preview url=”https://www.delo.si/lokalno/ljubljana-in-okolica/to-ni-romska-kultura-to-je-revscina-98955.html”]

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Slovenia and Salvini

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The Slovenian Press started reporting on Salvini’s effort to close all Roma camps within five years in Italy.

– Italijanska vlada s strožjo zakonodajo nad mafijce, teroriste in migrante. In: RTV. 24.09.2018. https://www.rtvslo.si/svet/evropa/italijanska-vlada-s-strozjo-zakonodajo-nad-mafijce-teroriste-in-migrante/466856
– Salvini bi do konca mandata zaprl vsa nezakonita romska naselja. In: STA. 24.09.2018. https://www.sta.si/2556101/salvini-bi-do-konca-mandata-zaprl-vsa-nezakonita-romska-naselja [link-preview url=”https://www.rtvslo.si/svet/evropa/italijanska-vlada-s-strozjo-zakonodajo-nad-mafijce-teroriste-in-migrante/466856 “]

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Slovenia: Efforts

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A community centre will be opened in the largest Roma settlement in Slovenia. Let’s see what this brings.

– Roma village to get community centre. In: STA. 25.09.2018. https://english.sta.si/2556442/roma-village-to-get-community-centre [link-preview url=”https://english.sta.si/2556442/roma-village-to-get-community-centre”]

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Slovenia: Moving …

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The town of Kočevje in Slovenia wants to move Roma to another location as they live in a zone that has been declared a future industrial zone.
Several residents are wary of this and are refusing to move.

– »Industrijska cona ni namenjena peki odojkov« In: Delo. 27.09.2018. https://www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/industrijska-cona-ni-namenjena-peki-odojkov-96233.html [link-preview url=”https://www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/industrijska-cona-ni-namenjena-peki-odojkov-96233.html”]

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