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Ukraine – Kiev and Settlements

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The situation is not getting better in Kiev. After the eviction of one settlement on April 5th, and then the burning and closure of an informal settlement on April 13th, Rroma have asked for police protection and the ombudsman was called in.
The situation in Ukraine is getting worse for Rroma.

– Як органи влади реагують на виселення ромів у Києві? In: Hromanske Radio. 17.04.2017. https://hromadskeradio.org/programs/chiriklo/yak-organy-vlady-reaguyut-na-vyselennya-romiv-u-kyyevi [link-preview url=”https://hromadskeradio.org/programs/chiriklo/yak-organy-vlady-reaguyut-na-vyselennya-romiv-u-kyyevi”]

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Ukraine: Displaced Rroma

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The War in Ukraine between nationalists leaves little space for Rroma. They had to flee.

– Roma families displaced by the war in eastern Ukraine face a double bind of poverty and discrimination. In: Relief Web. 15.03.2017. http://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/roma-families-displaced-war-eastern-ukraine-face-double-bind-poverty-and [link-preview url=”http://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/roma-families-displaced-war-eastern-ukraine-face-double-bind-poverty-and”]

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Hungary Eurovision

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Surprise, the winner of the Eurovision contest for representing the country in the next Eurovision contest in Kiev is a Rroma singer. Will be the first time that Hungary is represented by Rroma…
As for the song, well, it is in Hungarian …

– Joci Pápai is Hungary’s choice for Eurovision 2017. In: Eurovision TV. 18.02.2017. http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=joci_papai_is_hungarys_choice_for_eurovision
– Joci Pápai – Origo (Hungary) 360° A dal performance. In: Eurovision TV. 19.02.2017. http://www.eurovision.tv/page/multimedia/videos?id=256593
– Hungary: “Origo might even have societal impact on the country”. In: ESC Daily. 20.02.2017. http://www.escdaily.com/hungary-origo-societal-impact/#
– HUNGARIAN GYIPSY MUSICIAN JOCI PÁPAI WILL CELEBRATE DIVERSITY IN EUROVISION 2017. In: Hungary Today. 20.02.2017. http://hungarytoday.hu/news/hungarian-gyipsy-musician-joci-papai-will-celebrate-diversity-eurovision-2017 [link-preview url=”http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=joci_papai_is_hungarys_choice_for_eurovision “]

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Ukraine, Health, and Discrimination

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The Ombudsman has acted against discrimination of Roma in the Odessa hospital. Valery Lutkovska, Ukraine’s Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights insists that discrimination against Roma in accessing health services is inadmissible.
Monitoring the rights of Rroma in Ukraine showed that among the list of the many challenges they face, there is a particularly acute problem of discrimination in accessing health services.
BAD

– Омбудсмен выступила против дискриминации ромов в одесских больницах. In: УСИ. 14.02.2017. https://usionline.com/2017/02/14/ombudsmen-vystupila-protiv-diskriminatsii-romov-v-odesskih-bolnitsah/ [link-preview url=”https://usionline.com/2017/02/14/ombudsmen-vystupila-protiv-diskriminatsii-romov-v-odesskih-bolnitsah/”]

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Ukraine: Integration Policy?

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An article about the situation in the Ukraine and about the policies of the state regarding Rroma integration that are in need of a total overhaul. Mind you, the entire state is too.
Bad.

– Still un-integrated: Ukraine’s Roma Integration Strategy leads nowhere. In: ERRC Blog. 09.02.2017. http://www.errc.org/blog/still-un-integrated-ukraines-roma-integration-strategy-leads-nowhere/155 [link-preview url=”http://www.errc.org/blog/still-un-integrated-ukraines-roma-integration-strategy-leads-nowhere/155″]

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Ukraine: Rroma Holocaust

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An interview of a Rroma activits on the Rroma Holocaust in the Ukraine where many Rroma were killed, most simply shor on the spot by German troops. And a side note on how to call the Holocaust – certainly not Porajmos which isu usally used as sexual assault.
In each Rroma family in the Ukraine, there have been victims of the Holocaust. Let’s not forget them!

– У Чернігові нацисти у 1942-му винищили майже всю ромську громаду міста. In: громадське радіо. 28.01.2017. https://hromadskeradio.org/programs/kyiv-donbas/u-chernigovi-nacysty-u-1942-mu-vynyshchyly-mayzhe-vsyu-romsku-gromadu-mista [link-preview url=”https://hromadskeradio.org/programs/kyiv-donbas/u-chernigovi-nacysty-u-1942-mu-vynyshchyly-mayzhe-vsyu-romsku-gromadu-mista”]

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Ukraine: Camp on a Dump

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A reportage on a Rroma camp built on a garbage dump in the village of Ribne, near Ivano-Frankivsk. Roughly 500 Rroma live there in appalling conditions, and it seems to be growing.
Bad

– Франківець показав, як живе близько п’ятиста циган на сміттєзвалищі у Рибному (фото). In: Версіі. 19.01.2017. http://versii.if.ua/novunu/frankivets-pokazav-yak-zhivut-500-tsigan-na-smittyezvalishhi-u-ribnomu-foto/ [link-preview url=”http://versii.if.ua/novunu/frankivets-pokazav-yak-zhivut-500-tsigan-na-smittyezvalishhi-u-ribnomu-foto/”]

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More on Odessa

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A follow up on the anti-Rroma posters and leaflets being distributed in Odessa since the end of last year. The people who distribute them are still not identified, and it seems that not much is being done …

– Як боротись з ксенофобними листівками? In: Громадське Радіо. 15.01.2017. https://hromadskeradio.org/programs/rankova-hvylya/yak-borotys-z-ksenofobnymy-listivkamy [link-preview url=”https://hromadskeradio.org/programs/rankova-hvylya/yak-borotys-z-ksenofobnymy-listivkamy”]

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Ukraine: Kolyadi

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An article on the tradition of Kolyadi – Rroma Christmas songs – in the Ukraine. This tradition is still alive, and is illustrated by a Rromni poet interviewed here.

– Поетеса Рані Романі розповіла про ромські традиції Різдва. In: Правовий Простір. 13.01.2017. http://legalspace.org/ua/napryamki/posilennya-romskikh-gromad/item/8491-poetesa-rani-romani-rozpovila-pro-romski-tradytsii-rizdva [link-preview url=”http://legalspace.org/ua/napryamki/posilennya-romskikh-gromad/item/8491-poetesa-rani-romani-rozpovila-pro-romski-tradytsii-rizdva”]

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Anti-Rroma Posters in Odessa

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The city of Odessa has been flooded with anti-Rroma posters. Bad, especially when one remembers there has been a pogrom nearby recently.

– Ukraine: Odessa is flooded with anti-Romani posters. In: Romea.cz. 02.01.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/ukraine-odessa-is-flooded-with-anti-romani-posters#.WGwTw9upFoA.facebook [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/ukraine-odessa-is-flooded-with-anti-romani-posters#.WGwTw9upFoA.facebook”]

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Rroma – Not a Profession

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An interesting article on the Ukrainian Rroma, and most notably on the Servi, a group of Rroma that is thought to have fled present day Romania very early and have a Vlach dialect. Recent research seem to say that they have Carpathian origins. Seems unlikely although there are Carpathian Rroma in the Ukraine, the Plaščuni.

– Цыган — это не профессия. In: Internatioal Society for Romani Culture Studies. 29.12.2016. http://www.kulturom.ru/news/2016/12/29/panchenko [link-preview url=”http://www.kulturom.ru/news/2016/12/29/panchenko”]

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Training on Human Rights and Anti-Tsiganism

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The council of Europe is inviting young people to apply to a regional training on combatting anti-Tisganism though human rights to be held in Odessa, in the Ukraine.
Frankly, teaching people about their human rights when their legal rights are not even respected is, at least in our minds, not the best way to fight discrimination. We’ve seen that in several countries.
Let’s hope …

– Apply now: human rights education for youth to battle Roma discrimination. In: Euro East. 05.10.2016. http://enpi-info.eu/eastportal/news/latest/46692/Apply-now:-human-rights-education-for-youth-to-battle-Roma-discrimination [link-preview url=”http://enpi-info.eu/eastportal/news/latest/46692/Apply-now:-human-rights-education-for-youth-to-battle-Roma-discrimination”]

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Jewish View of Anti-Rroma Pogroms in the Ukraine

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Chilling read about the snit-Rroma Pogroms from August in the Ukraine. Read the views of some Ukrainian stating that the reasons behind the current pogrom and the ones 100 years ago against the Jews are the same: “they were not honest people” …

– In Ukraine, Jews witness historic echoes in pogroms against the Roma. In: Times of Israel. 23.09.2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-ukraine-jews-witness-historic-echoes-in-pogroms-against-the-roma/ [link-preview url=”http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-ukraine-jews-witness-historic-echoes-in-pogroms-against-the-roma/”]

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Paris: The Camp on the Petite Ceinture is Dismantled

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Paris: The Camp on the Petite Ceinture is Dismantled

The Rroma camp on the old tracks of the “Petite Ceinture” railway with close to roughly 400 inhabitants has been cleared yesterday. It was, according to the press the “largest” remaining camp near Paris.

One cannot but wonder that so few people attract so much attention, and that for such a small number of people, a more dignified solution could not be found earlier…

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Babi Yar

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Babi Yar

Ukraine commemorates the start of the Babi Yar massacre near Kiev which saw nearly 100’000 people killed in 1941, mostly Jews, but also Rroma and some others.

Remember!

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Ukraine: Human rights for minorities under threat

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In Crimea and in the Dombass (where the new autonomous region is being carved out), human rights for minorities, for Tatars and Rroma, but also for LGBT and religious minorities are under threat. There is an increased discrimination against them, something we can testify for the Rroma in that region.

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25.05.2014 “A People Uncounted” gives Rroma and Holocaust survivors a voice

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Various American newspapers report about the new movie by Aaron Yeger, which focuses on the marginalization of the Rroma in Europe. In an interview with NPR (2014), Yeger explores the question of why no exact figures on murdered Rroma exist as well what the marginalization and destruction of the minority meant for the former communities. As for the number of victims, the lack of written documentation by Rroma themselves as well as the absence of official documents is probably the main reason. The film focuses on the aspects of exclusion and persecution that are recapitulated by eyewitnesses. Language and traditions are only briefly touched upon. The New York Times comments: “While travelling to Budapest, Vienna, Montreal, Ukraine, Romania and Germany, the film, the first feature by Aaron Yeger, presents a range of lucid commentators, some of whom touch upon distant Roma history. But the primary focus here is on the disenfranchisement and ruthless persecution the Roma have long suffered in Europe: in Romania in the mid-1400s, by the Habsburgs in 1500, by Henry VIII and again by the Habsburgs in 1721. […] The darkest hour was the Holocaust, in which hundreds of thousands of Roma perished in concentration camps. Much of this movie is composed of survivors who give harrowing accounts of their experiences, and their warnings about rising ethnic hatred in Europe should not be ignored” (Webster 2014). Miller (2014) also points out that the image of the Rroma in the United States is shaped by stupendous reality TV shows such as Gypsy Sisters and My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding. These convey a stereotypical, one-sided picture of the Rroma. “A People Uncounted” tries to live up to the complexity of the fate of the Rroma (compare Broadway World 2014, Documentary Trailers 2011, Scheck 2014).   

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