Uncategorized – rroma.org https://rroma.org Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:53:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Uncategorized – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Switzerland and Jenische and Sinti https://rroma.org/switzerland-and-jenische-and-sinti/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=switzerland-and-jenische-and-sinti Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:53:59 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=33093 The Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs plans to establish an independent commission to investigate injustices against the Yenish and Sinti communities.

This decision follows calls from scholars and representatives of the affected communities for a thorough investigation into historical injustices.

Critics have expressed concerns over limited access to archival files and the need for a comprehensive inquiry into the persecution faced by these minorities.

]]> French Chronicle … https://rroma.org/french-chronicle-360/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=french-chronicle-360 Sun, 10 May 2026 15:12:42 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32528 Many articles this week about a very young mayor (23 years old) in Western France who is trying to get rid of a Roma camp on the coimmune, an conflict that boiled over with pro-Roma militiants  and with opposistion politicians.

Other than that, near Paris, a new camp on private grounds, and also near Paris, the police is accused of violence against Roma after on policeman shot a young dog in the head during a perquisition in the camp.

]]> Lolita Cercel https://rroma.org/lolita-cercel-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lolita-cercel-2 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:52:34 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32325 A very good review of what the AI videos of a Romni singer, “Lolit Cercel” actually mean.

]]> Court Ruling https://rroma.org/court-ruling/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=court-ruling Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:58:31 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31509 The European Court of Human right has ruled in favour of a Roma couple who were tortured by the Serbian police after having declared their car stolen.

]]> Slovenia: Criminality https://rroma.org/slovenia-criminality/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovenia-criminality Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:47:56 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=29600 Another case of an attack by Roma on non-Roma in Slovenia. That these occur is bad, but that the press simply expands this to a “Roma behaviour” is bad and dangerous.

]]> Fire on a Beach https://rroma.org/fire-on-a-beach/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fire-on-a-beach Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:27:31 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=29150 A fire on a beach in Otmanli near Burgas, Bulgaria, is being blamed on the nearby Roma settlement, as according to the paper, Roma often use barbecue. They then add that one doesn’t yet know the exact cause …

]]> Chrissy Teigen https://rroma.org/chrissy-teigen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chrissy-teigen Thu, 30 Jan 2025 06:52:58 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26920 In an episode of “Finding your Roots”, Chrissy Teigen found out she is of Roma origins.

]]> Baxtalo Nevo Berš https://rroma.org/baxtalo-nevo-bers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=baxtalo-nevo-bers Wed, 01 Jan 2025 09:42:44 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26598 Slovakia: Commemoration https://rroma.org/slovakia-commemoration-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-commemoration-2 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:26:31 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26075 On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, the In Minorita civic association (OZ) has prepared commemorative events as part of the Ma bisteren! project commemorating the Roma Holocaust on Tuesday, which will be held in Zvolen and Čierny Balog.

As the organizers recalled, this year we are commemorating the 80th anniversary of several tragic events. “After the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising in the autumn of 1944, there were reprisals against the civilian population, persecutions also affected the Roma population. Helping the partisans, but also suspicion of such help, was punishable by death,” they said.

]]> Slovakia: Attack https://rroma.org/slovakia-attack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-attack Mon, 04 Nov 2024 07:04:22 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25638 Slovakian investigative reporter Kristína Kövešová was physically attacked during the reporting she was working on. The most threatening thing is that the whole situation happened right in front of the police. What is not apparent initially in the article is who, but further down, it implicitly says that the attackers were Roma, and that they also attacked other people.

Bad.

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