News Switzerland Archives - rroma.org https://rroma.org/category/news-switzerland/ Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:50:51 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png News Switzerland Archives - rroma.org https://rroma.org/category/news-switzerland/ 32 32 Z-Salad https://rroma.org/z-salad/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=z-salad Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:50:51 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31215 A bakery from the Canton Zurich sells a saussage and cheese salad as “AZ’-Salad. They were asked by the young […]

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]]> A bakery from the Canton Zurich sells a saussage and cheese salad as “AZ’-Salad. They were asked by the young socialists from the region to drop the name, as this is insulting.

Well, in Switzerland, it is still acceptable, it seems …

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]]> “Z-Word” https://rroma.org/z-word-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=z-word-2 Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:40:58 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30976 A bakery in Zurich is being asked to rename a salad. They are selling a “Z”-Salad. The well-known bakery say […]

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]]> A bakery in Zurich is being asked to rename a salad. They are selling a “Z”-Salad. The well-known bakery say no customer complained…
Well the Swiss are a bit behind in that respect. Up until the 1990’s, the canned meatloaf in the Swiss army was called “pressed jew” – seriously!

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]]> Switzerland: Racist Police https://rroma.org/switzerland-racist-police/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=switzerland-racist-police Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:16:53 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30710 The RTS, the French speaking Swiss television channel published the content of some 2,500 pages of internal WhatsApp conversations within […]

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]]> The RTS, the French speaking Swiss television channel published the content of some 2,500 pages of internal WhatsApp conversations within the Lausanne police force. The analysis reveals a shocking extent of discriminatory and extremist remarks.

Blacks, Roma, Moslems, Jews, all is included in these racist statements, going as far as mentioning the Nazis of the KKK. And this is a municipal police force in Switzerland.

Sad.

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]]> Swiss Media and Roma https://rroma.org/swiss-media-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=swiss-media-and-roma Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:13:20 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30686 The Swiss Press Council decided in two cases we brought to their attention that Journalists of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung […]

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]]> The Swiss Press Council decided in two cases we brought to their attention that Journalists of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and on 20 Minuten.

The «Neue Zürcher Zeitung» violated points 3 (sources) and 8 (prohibition of discrimination) of the «Declaration of the Duties and Rights of Journalists» with the article «North Africans have little to fear» and the corresponding online article. In that article, the journalist said about North African criminals: “contrary to Roma, they are not organised in criminal clans”.

With its article “Protection status S: Resentment over abuse by Roma grows” of February 12, 2024, «20 Minuten» violated points 1 (truth), 3 (withholding important information) and 8 (discrimination) of the «Declaration of the Duties and Rights of Journalists».  This article pretty much was stating that Roma refugees from the Ukraine abused the Swiss Asylum, and that many were not even Ukraininas or had false papers.

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]]> Yves Leresche https://rroma.org/yves-leresche/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yves-leresche Sun, 09 Nov 2025 14:23:14 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30403 A series of reportages (5) about a Swiss photographer Yves Leresche. He did many of his photographs in Roma communities. […]

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]]> A series of reportages (5) about a Swiss photographer Yves Leresche. He did many of his photographs in Roma communities. One of the issues we see is his stereotypical reduction of Roma to poor discriminated people.

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]]> Switzerland and Roma Travellers https://rroma.org/switzerland-and-roma-travellers-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=switzerland-and-roma-travellers-2 Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:28:43 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30186 A reportage in Swiss television on Roma Travellers and how they are delt with. Recently, the police in the canton […]

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]]> A reportage in Swiss television on Roma Travellers and how they are delt with. Recently, the police in the canton of Valais stopped many caravans and blocked a highway to stop them and turn them around.

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]]> Switzerland and Ukrainian Refugees https://rroma.org/switzerland-and-ukrainian-refugees/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=switzerland-and-ukrainian-refugees Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:26:44 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30096 The Swiss government has decided that a large part of Western Ukraine, including Lviv, are safe and that Ukrainian refugees […]

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]]> The Swiss government has decided that a large part of Western Ukraine, including Lviv, are safe and that Ukrainian refugees from those regions can safely return home… It was announced right after Lviv was bombed.

This will affect quite a few refugees, and many Roma from Transcarpathian Ukraine.

Bad.

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]]> “Zigeuner” https://rroma.org/zigeuner-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zigeuner-3 Wed, 01 Oct 2025 10:58:04 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30016 The Zurich Anti-Racism Office removed the book title “Zigeuner” from an event. Isabella Huser, a Yenish author speaks of absurd […]

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]]> The Zurich Anti-Racism Office removed the book title “Zigeuner” from an event. Isabella Huser, a Yenish author speaks of absurd censorship. The issue there is that Yenish, a traveller minority in German speaking lands (mostly Switzerland and Rhine valley) often denote themselves as “Zigenuer”. But for Sinti and Roma, the use of this term is akin to the N-word.

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]]> Amnesty Switzerland on Racism https://rroma.org/amnesty-switzerland-on-racism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amnesty-switzerland-on-racism Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:02:01 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=29742 An article on racism against Roma in Switzerland. DIE LAST DER «UNSICHTBAREN» In: Magazin Amnesty. 08.09.2025.https://www.amnesty.ch/de/ueber-amnesty/publikationen/magazin-amnesty/2025-3/die-last-der-unsichtbaren LE FARDEAU DES «INVISIBLES» […]

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]]> An article on racism against Roma in Switzerland.

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]]> Małgorzata Mirga Tas https://rroma.org/malgorzata-mirga-tas-12/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=malgorzata-mirga-tas-12 Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:16:43 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=29669 In her textile “paintings,” Małgorzata Mirga-Tas connects the past and present of the Roma. At the Kunsthaus Bregenz, she tells […]

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]]> In her textile “paintings,” Małgorzata Mirga-Tas connects the past and present of the Roma. At the Kunsthaus Bregenz, she tells stories of her community, marked by pride in their own culture.

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