What does the very low number of Roma in Hungary who wear glasses say about their situation: Basically, it says they are left out of the health system.
A reportage in Lviv’s railway station with the plight of Roma, often because they have no identity papers, a problem in the Ukraine.
Roma refugees from the Ukraine face additional hurdles and discrimination.
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The English version of an article that was published a few days ago.
Hundreds of Ukrainian Roma have found temporary asylum in the community of the Apostolic Church in Pavlovce nad Uhom in eastern Slovakia.
Many Roma from the Ukraine are facing discrimination when fleeing Ukraine.
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A bus driver from the Czech Republic refused to take a Romni and child stuck at the Slovak border.
We have news of several groups of Roma in Poland. One group of elderly people, women and children arrived initially in Przemiśl, and are now in Waplewo. They are from Lutsk. Another group of ca. 15 people, originally from the Odessa region is currently is trying to get to Lithuania where they have relatives. They lack money to pay for the transport. Another group is stuck in Młyny at the border.
The Democratic Party of Roma plans to go to the local elections in Podgorica, said the president of that party, Mensur Shalaj. He said that the Democratic Party of Roma, which was founded in December 2019, did not participate in the 2020 parliamentary elections, because he thought that the 0.7% threshold for entering the parliament was too high.
The pastoral centre has become a refuge for Ukrainian Roma who crossed to the border crossing in Veľké Slemence into Slovakia. The pastor of the Apostolic Church, Marek Gombár, brings them with volunteers to Pavloviec nad Uhom, about 17 kilometres away.
Few news on Roma, which is not surprising, as news are full of other more pressing issues.
Nevertheless, a few things: A meeting from the anti-racism league of France which still uses racist terms and is utterly confused by Roma, insisting there are Travellers, Manouches, Tsiganes, and Roma – the latter ones generally associated to Romania. Bad.
Other news are a fire in a camp ion Lille and angry neighbours of a camp in Villeneuve d’Asc in the North of France; in the southwest, a new camping site for Travellers; and finally, militants that are requesting solidarity with all refugees.
In a predominantly Roma village close to the Ukrainian border in Slovakia, Roma help the arriving refugees.
A Roma pastor in Uszka, right at the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, took care of an extended Roma family with 7 women and 20 children.
Three Ukrainian Romnja, Tetjana, Natalia and Zola are organising humanitarian help in the Ukraine out of a bomb shelter and with the help of others in Berlin.
Many links in the article worth following.
The openhearted welcome of Poles towards Ukrainians stops when they are Roma. Several of them are stuck in Młyny on the Polish-Ukrainian Border.
We have reports of others in Przemyśl.
Numbers are unclear but rather small according to our informations.
Around 100 Sinti and Roma from Hanover were deported to Auschwitz in March 1943. At a wreath-laying ceremony at the Ahlem memorial, the city and region recalled the injustice of the Nazi era – and called for the fight against prejudice.
The new name of the former “Gypsy Moth”.
Many young Roma are fighting against the Russian in the Ukraine, according to Roma militants from the country.
A YouTube video of the border crossing into Hungary. The author accuses Roma to have created chaos by overtaking the line.
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Italian police arrested several travelling Roma and seized gold and arrested two people accused of having illegally transported tens of kg of gold over to Switzerland.
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