Category Archives: Slovenia

Not Sure …

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Not Sure …

A survey conducted by Laura Kovač, a student at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia, as part of her master’s thesis, showed that Roma students in Prekmurje and Dolenjska feel comfortable in primary school. Discrimination and stereotypes are still present, but Roma students mostly describe school relations as good.

Somewhat doubtful…

Slovenia and Roma

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The Murska Sobota Development Center has organized a first “international” Roma conference at the RIS Dvorec Rakičan, aimed at exchanging views on education and political and social inclusion of the Roma community. The director of the Office for Nationalities, Stane Baluh, estimated that in Slovenia the legal and formal issues regarding participation are well regulated, but they are lame in practice.

Effectively, Roma are segregated…

Slovenia and Roma

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Slovenia and Roma

Jožek Horvat-Muc, president of the Roma Association of Slovenia (ZRS) was interviewed on the situation of Roma in Slovenia and on what still needs to be done. Horvat notes that each government has done something, but none has done enough.

Still a long way to go for this rather small minority.

Slovenia and Roma

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The Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša stated in the National Assembly that they had dealt a lot with Roma issues during this term, especially within a special working group, and that the number of crimes committed by members of the Roma community had decreased.

The fact that he only referenced Roma crimes tells you how people in that country consider Roma.
Bad.

Slovenia and Roma

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Slovenia and Roma

An unfortunately typical rant against Roma in the Slovene press. In this case, a person complaining that effectively Roma misuse social care money, that many underage woman have children, and that the Roma know “which button to press in Brussels”.

Maybe they should start by ending discrimination …

Roma Settlement in Slovenia

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Roma Settlement in Slovenia

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.

Slovenia and Roma

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An article n the Slovenian press on Roma stressing the need for education for Integration.

– Položaj Romov. In: Radio Prvi. 08.04.2019. https://radioprvi.rtvslo.si/2019/03/studio-ob-17-ih-147/ [link-preview url=”https://radioprvi.rtvslo.si/2019/03/studio-ob-17-ih-147/”]

Slovenia and Burials

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The central cemetery of Žale in Ljubljana is still refusing to re-bury Roma victims of World War Two…
No comments …

– Javno podjetje Žale še kar zavrača pokop izvensodno umorjenih Romov. In: Reporter. 08.01.2019. https://reporter.si/clanek/slovenija/javno-podjetje-zale-se-kar-zavraca-pokop-izvensodno-umorjenih-romov-680079 [link-preview url=”https://reporter.si/clanek/slovenija/javno-podjetje-zale-se-kar-zavraca-pokop-izvensodno-umorjenih-romov-680079″]

Slovenia – No Comments

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The Slovenian state wants to bury the Roma killed during World War Two in the central Ljubljana cemetery of Žale, but the cemetery management rejects it, which is unheard of. The victims were killed by Partisan units between 1941 and 1945.

– “Nezaslišano in nesprejemljivo”: Janković Romov, ki so jih ubili partizani, ne pusti pokopati na Žalah, je ogorčen Stres. In: Reporter. 20.12.2018. https://reporter.si/clanek/slovenija/nezaslisano-in-nesprejemljivo-jankovic-romov-ki-so-jih-ubili-partizani-ne-pusti-pokopati-na-zalah-je-ogorcen-stres-677143
– Na Žalah zavračajo obtožbe o nespoštovanju do pokojnih Romov. In: SIOL. 20.12.2018. https://siol.net/novice/slovenija/na-zalah-zavracajo-obtozbe-o-nespostovanju-do-pokojnih-romov-486091
– Pravica do pokopa Romov na Žalah. In: Družina. 21.12.2018. https://www.druzina.si/ICD/spletnastran.nsf/clanek/pravica-do-pokopa-romov-na-zalah [link-preview url=”https://reporter.si/clanek/slovenija/nezaslisano-in-nesprejemljivo-jankovic-romov-ki-so-jih-ubili-partizani-ne-pusti-pokopati-na-zalah-je-ogorcen-stres-677143 “]

Slovenia: More to Do

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The Council of Europe chided Slovenia in its report on the framework convention on the protection of national minorities and asked the country to do more against hate speech.

– CoE: Slovenia urged to secure more Roma rights, fight hate speech. In: STA. 29.10.2018. https://english.sta.si/2568740/coe-slovenia-urged-to-secure-more-roma-rights-fight-hate-speech [link-preview url=”https://english.sta.si/2568740/coe-slovenia-urged-to-secure-more-roma-rights-fight-hate-speech”]

Interview

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An interview with a social worker in Slovenia on Roma. She rightly says that the way they live is not reflecting their culture but rather is the result of their poverty.

– Natalija Djoković iz društva Mozaik: Rasizem je postal resnično odprt, za kritiko pa se prostor vse bolj zapira. In: Delo. 05.10.2018. https://www.delo.si/lokalno/ljubljana-in-okolica/to-ni-romska-kultura-to-je-revscina-98955.html [link-preview url=”https://www.delo.si/lokalno/ljubljana-in-okolica/to-ni-romska-kultura-to-je-revscina-98955.html”]

Slovenia and Salvini

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The Slovenian Press started reporting on Salvini’s effort to close all Roma camps within five years in Italy.

– Italijanska vlada s strožjo zakonodajo nad mafijce, teroriste in migrante. In: RTV. 24.09.2018. https://www.rtvslo.si/svet/evropa/italijanska-vlada-s-strozjo-zakonodajo-nad-mafijce-teroriste-in-migrante/466856
– Salvini bi do konca mandata zaprl vsa nezakonita romska naselja. In: STA. 24.09.2018. https://www.sta.si/2556101/salvini-bi-do-konca-mandata-zaprl-vsa-nezakonita-romska-naselja [link-preview url=”https://www.rtvslo.si/svet/evropa/italijanska-vlada-s-strozjo-zakonodajo-nad-mafijce-teroriste-in-migrante/466856 “]

Slovenia: Efforts

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A community centre will be opened in the largest Roma settlement in Slovenia. Let’s see what this brings.

– Roma village to get community centre. In: STA. 25.09.2018. https://english.sta.si/2556442/roma-village-to-get-community-centre [link-preview url=”https://english.sta.si/2556442/roma-village-to-get-community-centre”]

Slovenia: Moving …

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The town of Kočevje in Slovenia wants to move Roma to another location as they live in a zone that has been declared a future industrial zone.
Several residents are wary of this and are refusing to move.

– »Industrijska cona ni namenjena peki odojkov« In: Delo. 27.09.2018. https://www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/industrijska-cona-ni-namenjena-peki-odojkov-96233.html [link-preview url=”https://www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/industrijska-cona-ni-namenjena-peki-odojkov-96233.html”]

Slovenia: Official TV

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A reportage from the Slovenian RTV on Roma education and inclusion.

– IZOBRAŽEVANJE ROMOV IN VKLJUČEVANJE. In: RTV4. 20.08.2018. https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/slovenska-kronika/174557591 [link-preview url=”https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/slovenska-kronika/174557591″]

Slovenia: New Museum

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The Roma museum of Murska Sobota will given new space in the centre of the city, according to the city’s mayor.

– Murska Sobota: Nov prostor za muzej Romov. In: Prlekija. 08.08.2018. https://www.prlekija-on.net/lokalno/18682/murska-sobota-nov-prostor-za-muzej-romov.html [link-preview url=”https://www.prlekija-on.net/lokalno/18682/murska-sobota-nov-prostor-za-muzej-romov.html”]

Holocaust Remembrance: Slovenia

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Quite a few articles in Slovenia on the Roma Holocaust for the commemorations of August 2nd.

– Pred 74 leti so nacisti usmrtili več kot 3.000 Romov. In: RTV. 02.08.2018. https://www.rtvslo.si/svet/pred-74-leti-so-nacisti-usmrtili-vec-kot-3-000-romov/462198
– Mednarodni dan spomina na zamolčane žrtve porajmosa, nacističnega genocida nad Romi. In: STA. 02.08.2018. https://www.sta.si/2539150/mednarodni-dan-spomina-na-zamolcane-zrtve-porajmosa-nacisticnega-genocida-nad-romi
– Dan spomina na žrtve nacističnega genocida nad Romi. In: SIOL.net. 02.08.2018. https://siol.net/novice/svet/dan-spomina-na-zrtve-nacisticnega-genocida-nad-romi-474285
– Porajmos – pozabljeni romski holokavst. In: Dnevnik. 02.08.2018. https://www.dnevnik.si/1042835049 [link-preview url=”https://www.rtvslo.si/svet/pred-74-leti-so-nacisti-usmrtili-vec-kot-3-000-romov/462198 “]

Slovenia and Holocaust

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Slovenia will mark the International Roma Holocaust Day with several events.

– Roma Holocaust remembered in Slovenia. In: STA. 01.08.2018. https://english.sta.si/2539494/roma-holocaust-remembered-in-slovenia [link-preview url=”https://english.sta.si/2539494/roma-holocaust-remembered-in-slovenia”]

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