Fred Taikon has devoted his entire life to improving the situation of the Roma in Sweden and the world. For his work he has received a medal from the government and has now been nominated for the Raoul Wallenberg Prize.
An interview and discussion with Romani Rose, the chairman of the German Council of Sinti and Roma.
A special exhibition on the Nazi genocide of Sinti and Roma can currently be visited in Frankfurt. It shows video interviews by survivors where they say “things they’ve never said before.”
An exhibition in Weimar showcases the fate of Roma in concentration camps.
Not much, but always the same, which is depressing. A camp closed in the north, and as usual, no solution found for its inhabitants; another one closed in Alsace and one in the west in Nantes; and in the dSouth, residents protest against a Roma camp.
Austria is discussing the establishment August 2nd as a national remembrance day for the Roma and Sinti victims of the Nazis.
The antiziganism reporting and information center in Berlin started work on July 5th. With this, antiziganism is finally being monitored in Germany and incidents are being counted and documented. An important step, because surveys show again and again how widespread social rejection of Sinti and Roma is. An interview with dr. Guillermo Ruiz, the project manager of the registration and information centre and political officer of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma.
As if we needed this. A shooting took place in Palma de Majorca. A car belonging to one Roma gang was shot at by a rival Roma gang. The person who shot at the car was arrested and has already been sentenced.
What is bad is that the oppress speaks of criminal Roma clans, once more.
No surprise, Travellers and Roma face hurdles in higher education.
Bad.
A Sinti family residing in Bavaria, who made a stop in Ettlingen, reports on terrible racist insults. The police has been alerted and an audio recording was presented.
The nationwide reporting and information centre for antiziganism has been opened in Berlin. In the future, attacks and insults directed against Roma and Sinti can be reported there.
The Documentation Centre of Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg, Germany, has opened a hotline for Roma from the Ukraine.
Good!
Claudia Roth, a prominent German Green politician and one of the vice presidents of the Bundestag. She is also currently serving as Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media has declined to attend a ceremony marking the 100thbirthday of Philomena Franz, where the Sintica and Holocaust survivor will tell about her life.
The Council of Europe is warning that there should not be a deterioration of human right in the UK.
A reportage on the life of Roma in Europe.
Not a nice article, to say the least, and an article that fails to look for the root causes of the problems.
More news this week on Roma, unfortunately. Complaints about a Roma camp near Paris; a camp evacuated near Lyon; the aftermath of a fire in a camp near Marseilles and the tricky question of the relocation of people; also in Marseilles, a squat has been closed; a new site for Roma near Nantes; a judgement in Lille, in the North, where a camp will be closed and the action of associations alarmed at the closure of camps.
A reportage on the situation of Roma in Europe on German TV.
A Roma community group challenges the stereotypes against Roma.
A 101 year old former Sachsenhausen concentration camp guard was condemned to five years of prison. The anti-Semitism commissioner and the antiziganism commissioner of the Federal Government, the Central Council of Sinti and Roma and other voices welcomed the judge’s verdict.
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