Author Archives: Roma Foundation

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Switzerland and Camping Sites

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Switzerland and Camping Sites

One of the main so-called “Transit” camping sites in Switzerland is in need of renovation …

Deutschland News Westeuropa

Germany and Roma

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Germany and Roma

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.

News Westeuropa Spanien

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.

News Westeuropa Vereinigtes Königreich

UK, Roma, and Education

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UK, Roma, and Education

No surprise, Travellers and Roma face hurdles in higher education.

Bad.

Deutschland News Westeuropa

Germany and Racism

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Germany and Racism

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.

Bulgarien News Osteuropa

Bulgaria, Schools, and Roma

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Bulgaria, Schools, and Roma

According to e recent study presented at a conference  on the “State of Roma educational integration: from segregation to education in an ethnically mixed environment”, organized by the “Amalipe” center (link is external) on July 4 and 5 in Sofia, almost 1/2 of the schools in our country have a majority of children from vulnerable groups (so Roma and other minorities).

This amounts more and more to a form of segregation.

Deutschland News Westeuropa

Germany, Holocaust, and Roma

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Germany, Holocaust, and Roma

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.

News Osteuropa Serbien

Vučić and Roma

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Vučić and Roma

Several articles on the Serbian president Vučić recognised the first generation of participants in the Barvalipe program, for young Roma  to work in the Serbian Public administration.

News Osteuropa Polen

Auschwitz Museum

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Auschwitz Museum

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the creation of the Auschwitz Museum, a commemorative album “75 years of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial Site” has been published. It is divided into six chapters: the establishment of the museum, the survivors at the memorial site, preservation of authenticity, education and memory, visits and the caretakers of the memorial site.

Photographs illustrating events in the history of the museum are accompanied by quotations from letters and entries in the commemorative book, mainly by leaders of states and international organizations, which emphasize the role and importance of the place. The album ends with a calendar of the most important events in the history of the museum.

Tschechische Republik News Osteuropa

Czech Ombudsman

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Czech Ombudsman

Stanislav Křeček, the current Czech ombudsman and former ČSSD politician, is, to put it mildly, extravagant. Critics blame him for ignoring his agenda and not understanding it at all. Křeček became famous for his statements about the fact that Roma discrimination does not exist in the Czech Republic – that is, in a country that has already lost before the European Court of Human Rights due to Roma segregation.

He should be removed from office.

News Osteuropa Slowakei

Slovakia and Help to Poor Families

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Slovakia and Help to Poor Families

The package of laws passed by the finance minister Igor Matovič is not good for poor families. The allowance for first-year students will be abolished, the poorest will only receive a small tax bonus, and the state will take half of the allowances for children whose parents do not send them to school – although the parents no longer receive the money, but the municipality. This last measure clearly aimed at Roma.

Bad.

Frankreich News Westeuropa

French Chronicle …

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French Chronicle …

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.

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