An interesting article presenting Rroma as a potential model for Europe.
Another excellent article on the fate of returning Rroma refugees in Kosovo.
Rroma women in Budapest are cooking against discrimination and stereotypes! A new restaurant in Budapest serves traditional Rroma food.
A good Idea, and a nice article for a change.
Hundred of displaced Rroma in Kosovo were forced to live in a camp build on a toxic wasteland. They should be compensated according to the UN.
Late …. But better than never.
An excellent article on the plight of returning refugees, especially to Kosovo.
Some articles on the International Rroma Day yesterday from Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia.
The recent surge of rightist extremism in Slovakia is threatening Rroma and their integration in the country.
Bad!
Last time it was a football player, this time a tennis one. The sult is the same “Gypsy Sh*t” … When will sports start condemning these kinds of statements more seriously?
A review and views on the work of Peter Pollak and his impact on Rroma issues. This highlights also the fact that a single Rrom in a parliament is bound to face issues and be seen as failing, and also that there are many established institutions who prefer “their” Rroma reality to the hard facts …
Hard job, long term, and impossible hurdles.
The portrait of an activist in Austria: Raim Schobesberger, originally a Macedonian Rrom who lives in Salzburg.
The government proxy for Rroma affairs, Peter Pollak resigned from his pots on April 4th. Pollak was very much engaged in improving the situation for Rroma in Slovakia, he himself running a school in Jarovnice.
A successor will be nominated by the Most-Hid coalition.
A few French journalists from the Bourgogne region went to Romania to try to understand a bit more about Rroma… If only they would open up on the fact that Romanian Rroma are not necessarily representative of the entire community …
An article about the shanty towns and camps near and around Rome where where one estimates that 8’000 people live, a large majority of them Rroma from former Yugoslavia and from Romania but also Italians and South Americans.
An article in the Canadian Press is mixing some historical facts (Indian origin, since at least 900 years in the Balkan, etc.) with some gross mistakes – Rom comes from Romania. But then, there are totally racist statements. Judge by yourself:
Please protest!
This week, French news are not dominated by the closure of camps or petty criminality … Main news are the fight against discrimination and racism. This is much better!
News on an exhibition in Roubaix, in the North on racism; “living books” aka story tellers in Lille; 200 people manifesting against the expulsions in Lille; and a portrait of an activist in Marseilles.
Expulsions are also in the press: Near Paris where 600 people were expulsed; and in the North where a camp awaits the verdict of the courts on its eviction.
Then, there is crime … With the collaboration of the French and Romanian police (bad, as the latter are really racist); and with arrests for theft among Rroma.
The former president of Romania, Traian Basescu, was condemned to a fine of 135 Euro for discriminatory comments about Rroma.
GOOD!
A Dutchman is helping ostracized Rroma in Romania.
A review of the movie on Papusza, the Polish Rromni poetess whose life ended tragically.
The Slovak Interior Ministry investigation cleared the police of any wrongdoings during the police raids in the Rroma settlement in Moldava nad Bodvou. As a reminder, several Rroma were beaten up, some even in the police station …
SHAME!
The European Human Rights Court is asking Romania to stop the eviction of Rroma in the Southern city of Eforie. These Rroma currently live in containers on the edge of the town and have been threatened with eviction due to unpaid utility bills. There have been other expulsions recently in Romania.
Bad …
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