Roma have been manifesting in Slovenia to protest discrimination.
– Roma rally against discrimination. In: STA. 16.10.2017. https://english.sta.si/2439762/roma-rally-against-discrimination [link-preview url=”https://english.sta.si/2439762/roma-rally-against-discrimination”]
A portrait of a French Dancer – Nicolas Archambault – a of some of his dance projects. He has one with Roma in Serbia – called GRUBB for Gypsy Urban Balkan Beats.
Watch the video …
– https://youtu.be/cltFKaEvRyA
– DALS: Nicolas Archambault, ce juré qui “n’a pas peur de mouiller le maillot”. In: L’Express. 14.10.2017. http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/tele/dals-nicolas-archambault-ce-jure-qui-n-a-pas-peur-de-mouiller-le-maillot_1925237.html [link-preview url=”https://youtu.be/cltFKaEvRyA”]
Another article about the current Bulgarian initiative aiming at getting Roma children in school.
– Bulgarie: la carotte et le bâton pour scolariser les enfants roms. In: Le Point. 12.10.2017. http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/bulgarie-la-carotte-et-le-baton-pour-scolariser-les-enfants-roms-12-10-2017-2163953_24.php [link-preview url=”http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/bulgarie-la-carotte-et-le-baton-pour-scolariser-les-enfants-roms-12-10-2017-2163953_24.php”]
The Roma Pride in Budapest was held a week ago.
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzcm3_ku6uM
– https://www.facebook.com/radiochiriklo/videos/1152590844873658/
– ROMA PRIDE DAY MARKED IN BUDAPEST. In: Budapest Daily News. 08.10.2017. https://dailynewshungary.com/roma-pride-day-marked-budapest/ [link-preview url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzcm3_ku6uM”]
An appeal to Roma to go and vote to bar Tomio Okamura, a rightist Czech-Japanese entrepreneur from governing the country. He is definitively not pro-Roma.
– Alena Gronzíková: Romale, don’t be lazy, vote! Otherwise Okamura will govern us! In: Romea. 13/10.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/alena-gronzikova-romale-don-t-be-lazy-vote-otherwise-okamura-will-govern-us [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/alena-gronzikova-romale-don-t-be-lazy-vote-otherwise-okamura-will-govern-us”]
On the 8th of October, two men in a car shot several times against a house in a Roma Osada. The police has ruled out a racial motive and is saying that the two men were under the influence of alcohol. Apparently, the two men wanted to have sex with a Romni, and while waiting, accidently shot several times …
No comments…
– Streľba na Rómov v Pohronskej Polhore nemala rasový motív, mladíci chceli na seba upozorniť. In: Web Noviny. 12.10.2017. https://www.webnoviny.sk/strelba-na-romov-v-pohronskej-polhore-nemala-rasovy-motiv-mladici-chceli-na-seba-upozornit/
– V prípade streľby na rodinný dom Rómov polícia vylúčila rasový motív. In: Teraz Regiony. http://www.teraz.sk/regiony/pohronska-polhorav-pripade-strelby-n/285888-clanok.html [link-preview url=”https://www.webnoviny.sk/strelba-na-romov-v-pohronskej-polhore-nemala-rasovy-motiv-mladici-chceli-na-seba-upozornit/”]
So far 18 people have caught measles in a Roma camp in the Polish city of Poznan. There are roughly 80 people living in this camp.
– Burza wokół zachorowań na odrę w Poznaniu. “To dla mnie niepojęte. Nie żyjemy przecież jak za króla Ćwieczka”. In: Na Temat. http://natemat.pl/219691,burza-wokol-zachorowan-romow-na-odre-w-poznaniu-to-dla-mnie-niepojete-nie-zyjemy-przeciez-jak-za-krola-cwieczka [link-preview url=”http://natemat.pl/219691,burza-wokol-zachorowan-romow-na-odre-w-poznaniu-to-dla-mnie-niepojete-nie-zyjemy-przeciez-jak-za-krola-cwieczka”]
What we really don’t need … A case of rape with a truly underage 12 years old girl due to a child wedding. The Rom, 25 years old was sentenced to 6 years of jail. It did the front page of the UK press and of course also of the Romanian one.
It is used unfortunately as a case f collective guilt.
– Roma man from Romania jailed in UK for raping 12-year-old pregnant wife. In: Romania Insider. 12.10.2017. https://www.romania-insider.com/roma-man-romania-jailed-uk/
– Romany Gypsy man, 25, is jailed for six years for having sex with his TWELVE-year-old wife after moving to Essex. In: Daily Mail. 10.10.2017. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4965092/Romany-Gypsy-man-25-jailed-six-years.html [link-preview url=”https://www.romania-insider.com/roma-man-romania-jailed-uk/ “]
An article on the Romanian Kitsch museum… Guess what it showcases over Roma: Kings and crowns – which actually don’t mean anything.
A further stereotype.
– Many eastern Europeans feel nostalgia for the communist era. In: The Economist. 12.10.2017. https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21730167-though-few-really-want-dictators-back-many-eastern-europeans-feel-nostalgia-communist [link-preview url=”https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21730167-though-few-really-want-dictators-back-many-eastern-europeans-feel-nostalgia-communist”]
The Bulgarian government seems to make an effort to make sure Roma children are going to school in the country.
Nice to try to convince the parents, but definitively not enough. One needs to prevent discrimination which exists in school and make sure the children have the means to buy books and material.
– Bulgaria makes effort to bring Roma children back to school. In: Euraktiv. 12.10.2013. https://www.euractiv.com/section/languages-culture/news/bulgaria-makes-effort-to-bring-roma-children-back-to-school/ [link-preview url=”https://www.euractiv.com/section/languages-culture/news/bulgaria-makes-effort-to-bring-roma-children-back-to-school/”]
Two Roma families denied exit from Macedonia win a discrimination case against the country.
GOOD!
– Roma Denied Exit From Macedonia Win Discrimination Case. In: ERRC. 10.10.2017. http://www.errc.org/article/roma-denied-exit-from-macedonia-win-discrimination-case/4595 [link-preview url=”http://www.errc.org/article/roma-denied-exit-from-macedonia-win-discrimination-case/4595″]
The “Therme Bucharest”, the biggest wellness and spa complex in Romania has been fined for discriminating against Roma. Specifically they were condemned to pay RON 30’000 for discrimination against two Roma who were pulled out of the line and told to get out.
Good!
– Therme Bucharest needs to pay moral damages for Roma discrimination. In: Romania Insider. 03.10.2017. https://www.romania-insider.com/therme-bucharest-damages-discrimination/ [link-preview url=”https://www.romania-insider.com/therme-bucharest-damages-discrimination/”]
Roma living in segregated communities suffer from high rates of chronic and infectious diseases, as well as reduced physical and mental (SIC!) performance. In some areas of Slovakia, their life expectancy is 15 years lower than in the majority population. Therefore, the Ministry of Health already launched the Health Promotion Program for the Disadvantaged Communities in Slovakia in 2013, which in 2015 was changed to a program aimed at supporting the improvement of Roma health from segregated areas, especially in the 150 municipalities identified as the least developed. This is stated in the information material submitted by the Minister of Health Tomáš Drucker and the Government has taken note of it at today’s meeting.
A new national program is being set up to continue the work.
How about simply integrating the Roma???
– Ministerstvo zdravotníctva spúšťa nový program pre Rómov: Trpia vysokou frekvenciou ochorení. In: Topky. 07.10.2017. http://www.topky.sk/cl/100535/1660553/Ministerstvo-zdravotnictva-spusta-novy-program-pre-Romov–Trpia-vysokou-frekvenciou-ochoreni [link-preview url=”http://www.topky.sk/cl/100535/1660553/Ministerstvo-zdravotnictva-spusta-novy-program-pre-Romov–Trpia-vysokou-frekvenciou-ochoreni”]
A map of the languages spoken by Roma in Slovakia (principal language). A Roma activist has proposed that Romanes be taught as a language in school as it is the principal language (often together with Hungarian) of many Roma in Slovakia.
– Slovenčinu chcú učiť ako cudzí jazyk, nová mapa ukazuje, kde sa mieša s rómčinou. In: Dennik. 03.10.2017. https://dennikn.sk/898985/slovencinu-mozu-ucit-ako-cudzi-jazyk-nova-mapa-ukazuje-kde-sa-miesa-s-romcinou/ [link-preview url=”https://dennikn.sk/898985/slovencinu-mozu-ucit-ako-cudzi-jazyk-nova-mapa-ukazuje-kde-sa-miesa-s-romcinou/”]
A tale of Roma selling some “real”, i.e. solid Bitcoins to credulous Russians in a small town near Moscow.
The photo by the way is almost certainly not from Russian Roma and definitively reflects the bias of the journalist and the editor … Not surprising from Sputnik.
– My Big Fat Bitcoin Scam: Russian Gypsies Cash In On Cryptocurrency Craze. In: Sputnik. 05.10.2017. https://sputniknews.com/russia/201710051057969156-obninsk-gypsies-selling-bitcoins/ [link-preview url=”https://sputniknews.com/russia/201710051057969156-obninsk-gypsies-selling-bitcoins/”]
The EU funded a series of houses for Roma in Gračanica, Bosnia. Many Roma were driven out of the town during the war and their houses were destroyed.
– EU provides new homes for Roma families in Gračanica. In: European Western Balkan. 04.10.2017. https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/2017/10/04/eu-provides-new-homes-roma-families-gracanica/ [link-preview url=”https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/2017/10/04/eu-provides-new-homes-roma-families-gracanica/”]
The central European University launches a new program of Roma studies in Budapest.
– CEU launches Romani Studies Program. In: Budapest Business Journal. 03.10.2017. https://bbj.hu/culture/ceu-launches-romani-studies-program_139614 [link-preview url=”https://bbj.hu/culture/ceu-launches-romani-studies-program_139614″]
Quite a few people of the town of Californai (PA) went to see a screening of the movie “our school” by Miruna Coca-Cozma – an excellent movie which highlights the difficulties and racism faced by Roma in Romania.
The town was at the centre of a media frenzy with the arrival of ca 50 Roma refugees from Romania.
– Film Shown to Highlight Struggles of Roma People. In: CalTimes. 03.10.2017. https://www.caltimes.org/3941/showcase/film-shown-to-highlight-struggles-of-roma-people/ [link-preview url=”https://www.caltimes.org/3941/showcase/film-shown-to-highlight-struggles-of-roma-people/”]
The Czech justice dismissed several cases of Internet hate speech submitted by the Rome organisation in the Czech Republic.
Judge by yourself, but the statements are definitively racist.
– Czech Police say threats to “bring Roma children to justice” are not criminal. In: Romea. 02.10.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-police-say-threats-to-bring-roma-children-to-justice-are-not-criminal [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-police-say-threats-to-bring-roma-children-to-justice-are-not-criminal”]
According to a recently released statistic, there are 245’800 Roma in the Czech Republic. The region with the highest number was the one of Usti nad Labem, with 68’500.
These statistics are usually very unreliable as many Roma prefer not to declare themselves as such, resulting in an over-representation of Roma living in Ghettos and a lower overall number.
– V Česku žije podľa najnovšieho sčítania vyše 245-tisíc Rómov. In: SME. 08.09.2017. https://svet.sme.sk/c/20644588/v-cesku-zije-podla-najnovsieho-scitania-vyse-245-tisic-romov.html [link-preview url=”https://svet.sme.sk/c/20644588/v-cesku-zije-podla-najnovsieho-scitania-vyse-245-tisic-romov.html”]
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