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Spain: Discrimination Report

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Spain: Discrimination Report

The Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) presented its 18th Annual Report “Discrimination and the Roma Community” today in Seville. The focus of the report is the Discriminatory bias in the use of artificial intelligence and its impact on the Roma community.

The report presents 554 cases of discrimination and antigypsyism reported and assisted by the FSG in 2021, in its capacity as coordinator of the Service of Assistance and Guidance to Victims of Racial or Ethnic Discrimination and the Calí programme for the Equality of Roma Women. In addition, the report includes the most recent advances, good practices, jurisprudence and strategic litigation in the field of discrimination led by the FSG.

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Roma Genetics

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A genetic study among the Cale population of Spain, with clear results and an interesting diversity of matrilineal material hinting at an original greater diversity of the proto-Roma population than previously thought.

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Biennale of Flamenco in Sevilla

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A few articles of the first week of the Bienal de Flamenco in Sevilla. With Eva Yerbabuena, Olga Pericet, Vincente Amigo, Davide Lagos, and a very critical review of Patricia Guerrero’s spectacle.

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Spain: Campaign

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The Fundación Secretariado Gitano has launched a campaign on social networks to encourage young Roma to participate in the training and employment program ‘Acceder’, which, in the last 20 years, has managed to help 33,000 people find a job.

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More on the Attacks in Spain

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The National Human Rights Platform, the Faith and Hope Religious Congregation and the Esperanza Gitana Union for Humanity, together with relatives of the alleged murderer of the 19-year-old who died in Íllora (Granada), have filed a letter with the Government Subdelegation to denounce “racist and xenophobic acts” for the assaults against some Roma homes and vehicles following the murder of the 19-year-old.

Sad story.

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Attacks in Spain

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The Spanish Ombudsman will study the attacks that occurred against the homes and property of Roma families that occurred in Íllora, in the Poniente region of Granada, in response to a crime allegedly committed by a 23-year-old Rom this past Monday, for which a 19-year-old died.

Representatives of the Spanish Gitana Society met this Friday with members of the Ombudsman’s office to demand protection from the attacks, which occurred this week after a demonstration to demand justice for the murder. After that protest, a group of people went to the houses of relatives of the alleged murderer, who was on the run at that time and who turned himself in the next day, and vandalized them.

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Spain, Attacks, and Roma

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The Spanish Gitana Society and the Federation of Gitana Women have filed a complaint against the mayor of Íllora (Granada), Antonio Salazar, for alleged incitement to hatred after the violent death of a 19-year-old boy at the town festivals. The incitement concerns acts by citizen who have detained a 23-year-old Gitano, and for the damage to Roma homes the municipality of Poniente de Granada.

Specifically, the Federation of Gitana Women considers the alderman “promoter and instigator” of the assaults registered in the town against several Gitana families and has even requested his arrest.

According to the Spanish Gitana Society, these are “serious crimes”, which “have been generated against Gitana families”, for which they ask that the mayor be “immediately arrested”.

These attacks are becoming more frequent is Spain.

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Spain and Ukraine

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An editorial by Juan de Dios Ramirez Heredia, a lawyer, former EU MP, and a Rom activist on the unbearable situation of Roma in the Ukraine. He states: “It is dramatic to know that the situation of the Roma people in Ukraine is unbearable and that the war has greatly increased their exclusion. Conditions in the settlements are unacceptable and Roma are being discriminated against during aid distribution in the context of war.”

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Spain and Racism

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The little Catalan town of la Seu d’Urgell was the scene of racist incident between a group of local residents who wanted to dance a Sardana on a square and a group of Roma evangelical Christians. The municipality apparently had made an error and scheduled both events on the same square on the same day. The result was that Roma were insulted and confronted with racist shouts and were asked to leave.

The municipality excused itself and deplored the racist overtones of its residents.

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Spain: Pogroms

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Following the stabbing of a doorman by a Rom in the Spanish Andalusian town of Peal de Becerro, a mob went in rampage against local Roma who had to flee. Several houses were burned, damaged and or looted.
Bad.

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Shooting in the Baleares

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Shooting in the Baleares

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.

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– Spanish police brutally end street fight between Roma travellers with vicious kicks, punches and baton charges in shocking footage taken in a busy Madrid square. In: Daily Mail. 09.04.2019. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6902755/Spanish-police-break-vicious-fight-Roma-travellers.html [link-preview url=”https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6902755/Spanish-police-break-vicious-fight-Roma-travellers.html”]

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Spain and Elections

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Juan de Dios Ramirez Heredia, layer, former EU MP, and Rom is asking the various parties in Spain to include Roma in their ranks – and not just in one party.

– ES LA HORA DE LA MUJER GITANA (Por Juan de Dios Ramírez-Heredia. Abogado y periodista presidente de Unión Romaní). In: El Dia. 17.03.2019. https://eldiadigital.es/art/288434/es-la-hora-de-la-mujer-gitana-por-juan-de-dios-ramirez-heredia-abogado-y-periodista-presidente-de-union-romani [link-preview url=”https://eldiadigital.es/art/288434/es-la-hora-de-la-mujer-gitana-por-juan-de-dios-ramirez-heredia-abogado-y-periodista-presidente-de-union-romani”]

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Spain: School Program

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A short article on a program helping young Roma in school in Galicia.

– Gitanos contra los prejuicios. In: La Opinion a Coruna. 18.03.2019. https://www.laopinioncoruna.es/sociedad/2019/03/18/gitanos-prejuicios/1384991.html [link-preview url=”https://www.laopinioncoruna.es/sociedad/2019/03/18/gitanos-prejuicios/1384991.html”]

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50 Years

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Pastora Pavon Cruz, better known as “la Niña de los Peines” died 50 years ago.

– En 2019 se cumplen 50 años sin la Niña de los Peines. In: AI on Sur. 17.02.2019. https://aionsur.com/en-2019-se-cumplen-50-anos-sin-la-nina-de-los-peines/ [link-preview url=”https://aionsur.com/en-2019-se-cumplen-50-anos-sin-la-nina-de-los-peines/”]

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