A book written and concepted by Roma children aims at changing perceptions of Roma.
Although the municipality of Škocjan does not officially have an autochthonous Roma minority and thus no Roma councillor, there are more Roma there every year. More than three hundred Roma already live in two settlements in Dobruška. This means that in a municipality with about 3,400 inhabitants, about ten percent of the Roma population already has. The school already has a fifth or 20 percent of schoolchildren are Roma children.
The settlements have water, and the municipality installed chemical toilets.
A large manifestation is expected in the UK today to protest against the new police laws. Among others, thee laws will criminalise trespass in a way that is aimed at Roma and Travellers.
More news this week on Roma, but again, mostly on Montpellier where a large Roma camp will be closed in March and replaced by a temporary camp. Future neighbours of this camp are vehemently protesting and the mayor of the commune where it will be located is saying that people will get killed.
Other news are more of the same. A camp re-opens in the South of France; a camp burns down near Paris; neighbours of a Roma camp near Paris convince the mayor to close a camp; and finally, one of the oldest insertion villages in France, in the northern town of Roubaix, closes.
The Hungarian Government still backs its Roma commissioner even though he has been recorded bribing Roma representatives.
Shame, but not surprising in these days in Hungary.
A court in Milan reversed an order from the municipality to evict three Roma families in a camp.
A celebration for the old New-Year in Bulgaria.
A new book on a subject that is definitively not well known.
A legal case on final injunctions against illegal occupation of land, i.e. camping.
We celebrate Vasilitsa!
An article on the deportation of Roma to the Łodz/Litzmannstadt Ghetto. In September 1941, the Reich Central Statistical Office decided to deport 5,000 Roma from the Austro-Hungarian border to Poland, where they were imprisoned in the Łódź ghetto (Litzmannstadt Ghetto).
An activist fined for hanging a Czech Flag blended with a Roma one. What is going on?
An editorial on the new law currently being debated in the House of Lords which not only threatens protests but also criminalises Roma and Travellers way of life.
Elena Marushiakova and Veselin Popov have received the Romanipe Award in connection with their long-term work in
the field of Roma research
In 2016, a Pogrom against Roma took place in Loshchinovka, near Odessa. No Roma were hurt as they had fled prior to the start of the pogrom. The origins of the pogrom was the brutal murder of an 8 year old girl and the fact that a Rom was initially accused of it. This accusation was dropped later.
Roma went to court to protest against the eviction and against the actions of several village officials., including the police which did not do anything to protect the Roma.
They lost – the eviction is apparently “self-government” of the village.
BAD.
A discussion with Karolína Ryvolová, romologue, translator. She did Romani Studies at the university, learnt Romanes, and became a translator and editor in the publisher “Kher”. She just published a book called “O mulo! Stories about the spirit of the dead”.
A new project “Thara” in Austria aims at helping Roma acquiring new skills and learnings so as to have more chances of finding jobs.
The view of the opposition on the unfolding scandal around Attila Sztojka, Director General of the Directorate General for Social Opportunity (TEF)
An article on the Roma community of Coventry.
What can be done against antigypsyism? The Jewish intellectual Micha Brumlik calls for the fight against it to be anchored in the state constitutions as a goal.
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