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Swiss Jenische

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The Jenische Organisation “Radgenossenschaft der Landstrasse” wrote to the Swiss Federal Council, deploring the increase of racism against travellers in the country, the closure of camping sites, and the inaction of the authorities. They deplore the fact that the Jenische are thrown into the same pot as other “foreign” and mostly Roma group and that politics at the same time plays one group against the other.

– Jenische fürchten den “Dammbruch”. In: Der Bund. 17.11.2017. https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/Jenische-fuerchten-den-Dammbruch/story/26684903#overlay [link-preview url=”https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/Jenische-fuerchten-den-Dammbruch/story/26684903#overlay”]

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Czech Republic under Pressure

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The Czech republic has been under pressure at the UN in Geneva reading Roma and the persisting racism and discrimination against them in the Czech Republic.
Good!

– INTÉGRATION DES ROMS ET MONTÉE DU RACISME : L’ONU RECOMMANDE À LA TCHÉQUIE D’EN FAIRE PLUS. In: Radio Praha. 07.11.2017. http://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/faits/integration-des-roms-et-montee-du-racisme-lonu-recommande-a-la-tchequie-den-faire-plus
– LE PRÉSIDENT ZEMAN CRITIQUÉ PAR LES REPRÉSENTANTS DE LA MINORITÉ ROM. In: Radio Praha. 12.11.2017. http://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/infos/le-president-zeman-critique-par-les-representants-de-la-minorite-rom [link-preview url=”http://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/faits/integration-des-roms-et-montee-du-racisme-lonu-recommande-a-la-tchequie-den-faire-plus “]

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Is Begging a Right?

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An initiative in the Canton Vaud in Switzerland to forbid begging was approved by the cantonal parliament. It is currently suspended while court proceedings against it are in progress. This raises the question as to whether begging is a right.
Actually, the real question is whether this law was racist as it was aimed solely at Roma begging in the street of Lausanne.

– Mendier est-il un droit fondamental? In: Swiss Info. 08.11.2017. https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/economie/à-la-justice-de-trancher_mendier-est-il-un-droit-fondamental-/43654278 [link-preview url=”https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/economie/à-la-justice-de-trancher_mendier-est-il-un-droit-fondamental-/43654278″]

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Switzerland: More Camping Sites for Roma

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Another series of articles following the publication of the report of the Society for threatened people (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker) on Roma travellers in Switzerland.
This time, the French speaking press…

– Il faut plus de places d’accueil pour les Roms. In: 20 Minutes (CH). 31.10.2017. http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/suisse/story/Il-faut-plus-de-places-d-accueil-pour-les-Roms-23778771
– Plus d’aires d’accueil pour les roms. In: Le Courrier. 01.11.2017. https://www.lecourrier.ch/153932/plus_d_aires_d_accueil_pour_les_roms
– «Les Roms nomades ont besoin de plus de places» In; 24 Heures. 31.10.2017. https://www.24heures.ch/suisse/roms-nomades-besoin-places/story/29219685 [link-preview url=”https://www.lecourrier.ch/153932/plus_d_aires_d_accueil_pour_les_roms”]

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Switzerland: Travelling Roma

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Two more articles about the press conference and report of the Society for Threatened People (Geselschaft für bedrohte Völker) on the situation of travelling Roma in Switzerland. The police is on the Roma’s side this time …

– Polizisten raten: «Schafft Plätze». In: Der Bund. 01.11.2017. https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/polizisten-raten-schafft-plaetze/story/20987035
– «Messerschleifer sind nur noch wenige». In: Tages Anzeiger. 01.11.2017. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/messerschleifer-sind-nur-noch-wenige/story/19294584 [link-preview url=”https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/polizisten-raten-schafft-plaetze/story/20987035 “]

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Switzerland: Travelling Roma

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Quite a few articles in the Swiss Press on the presentation of a report by the Society for Threatened People (Geselschaft für bedrohte Völker) on the situation of travelling Roma in Switzerland. Key tenor in the Press, the police is agrees that one of the main issues ais the lack of proper camping sites for these travellers.

– Roma klagen über Konflikte mit der Polizei. In: Berner Zeitung. 31.10.2017. https://www.bernerzeitung.ch/region/bern/roma-klagen-ueber-konflikte-mit-der-polizei/story/31389521
– Polizei teilt Forderung der fahrenden Roma nach mehr Halteplätzen. In: Blick. 31.10.2017. https://www.blick.ch/news/politik/zu-wenige-halteplaetze-fuehren-vermehrt-zu-konflikten-polizei-teilt-forderung-der-fahrenden-roma-nach-mehr-halteplaetzen-id7534546.html
– Roma fordern mehr Halteplätze. In: Bluewin. 31.10.2017. https://www.bluewin.ch/de/news/inland/2017/10/31/polizei-teilt-forderung-der-fahrenden-roma-nach-me.html
– Erfahrung mit Fahrenden im TOP-Land. In: Top Online. 31.10.2017. http://www.toponline.ch/news/winterthur/detail/news/erfahrung-mit-fahrenden-im-top-land-0075634/ [link-preview url=”https://www.bernerzeitung.ch/region/bern/roma-klagen-ueber-konflikte-mit-der-polizei/story/31389521 “]

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Switzerland and Travelling Roma

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A report by the Society for Threatened Peoples on the situation of travelling Roma in Switzerland show the increased difficulties they are facing. More camping sites are needed but also more work to fight against prejudices.

– NGO and police call for more Roma transit sites. In: Swiss Info. 31.10.2017. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/minorities_ngo-and-police-call-for-more-roma-transit-sites/43640038 [link-preview url=”https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/minorities_ngo-and-police-call-for-more-roma-transit-sites/43640038″]

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Switzerland / Lausanne: End of Prohibition

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The Swiss Federal Tribunal suspended the current prohibition against begging in Lausanne until it statutes on the appeal against this law.
A first step!

– Interdiction de la mendicité suspendue dans le canton de Vaud. In: Swissinfo. 03.10.2017. https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/interdiction-de-la-mendicité-suspendue-dans-le-canton-de-vaud/43567020 [link-preview url=”https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/interdiction-de-la-mendicité-suspendue-dans-le-canton-de-vaud/43567020″]

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Switzerland and Travellers

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The Canton Bern is stopping the search for a suitable place to create a camping site for foreign travellers. This distinction between local and foreign travellers is really bad.

– Weichenstellung in der Roma-Politik. In: Der Bund. 05.10.2017. https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/weichenstellung-in-der-romapolitik/story/12911725 [link-preview url=”https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/weichenstellung-in-der-romapolitik/story/12911725″]

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Switzerland and a few Travellers

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Seems that the Swiss cannot find a solution to the “problem” of travellers… Really? For around 3000 people who visit Switzerland regularly?

– «Allen Efforts zum Trotz gibts weniger Plätze». In: Der Bund. 09.09.2017. https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/allen-efforts-zum-trotz-gibts-weniger-plaetze/story/11905198 [link-preview url=”https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/allen-efforts-zum-trotz-gibts-weniger-plaetze/story/11905198″]

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It Works

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A case showing that Roma can camp in Switzerland without being tagged as dirtying and defiling the site on which they camp… This entire polemic of foreign travellers is a self made issue.

– Wo Roma friedlich campieren. In: Der Landbote. 08.09.2017. https://www.landbote.ch/front/wo-roma-friedlich-campieren/story/12509526 [link-preview url=”https://www.landbote.ch/front/wo-roma-friedlich-campieren/story/12509526″]

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Lausanne: Recourse against Interdiction

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A new recourse against the interdiction of begging in the canton of Vaud has been filed in the Swiss Federal Tribunal. The canton had passed this law even tough the number of beggars is ridiculously low (less than a hundred) at any given time.

– Mendicité: recours contre l’interdiction vaudoise. In: La Tribune de Genève. 04.09.2017. https://www.tdg.ch/suisse/suisse-romandemendicite-recours-interdiction-vaudoise/story/30109601 [link-preview url=”https://www.tdg.ch/suisse/suisse-romandemendicite-recours-interdiction-vaudoise/story/30109601″]

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Switzerland: Work and Public Order …

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Really, an ordinance in Switzerland is trying to ban travellers from working based on “disturbing public order” …
Bad!!!!

– Une ordonnance braque les gens du voyage. In: La Tribune de Genève. 06,09.2017. https://www.tdg.ch/suisse/ordonnance-braque-gens-voyage/story/18323278 [link-preview url=”https://www.tdg.ch/suisse/ordonnance-braque-gens-voyage/story/18323278″]

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Switzerland Workers and Travellers

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The associations of craftsmen in Switzerland are being sued for having advertised against using travellers for jobs in the country. When you read what they wrote, this was really discriminatory.

– Plainte pour une annonce discriminatoire. In: Tribune de Genève. 06.09.2017. https://www.tdg.ch/suisse/Plainte-pour-une-annonce-discriminatoire/story/23349204 [link-preview url=”https://www.tdg.ch/suisse/Plainte-pour-une-annonce-discriminatoire/story/23349204″]

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Not Good …

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An article and comment on Travellers in Switzerland, basically stating that the “locals” will have more difficulties in finding a site if there are no (segregated) sites for “foreign” travellers.

– «Allen Efforts zum Trotz gibts weniger Plätze» In: Der Bund. 09.09.2017. https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/Allen-Efforts-zum-Trotz-gibts-weniger-Plaetze-/story/11905198 [link-preview url=”https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/Allen-Efforts-zum-Trotz-gibts-weniger-Plaetze-/story/11905198″]

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Travellers and Workers

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A Swiss traveller is suing the workers associations for discrimination. These associations had put adverts in the press warning readers not to employ travellers to do repairs or painting jobs. The adverts were definitively not politically correct …

– Fahrender zeigt Handwerker-Verbände an. In: 20 Minuten (CH). 06.09.2017. http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/bern/story/26650728 [link-preview url=”http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/bern/story/26650728″]

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Switzerland – No Travellers Please

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The residents of the village of Wileroltigen in the Canton Bern protested in front of the Bern parliament to protest against camping sites for travellers in the canton.
Bad…

– Wileroltiger wollen Transitplätze im ganzen Kanton stoppen. In: Der Bund. 04.09.2017. https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/wileroltiger-wollen-transitplaetze-im-ganzen-kanton-stoppen/story/25138084 [link-preview url=”https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/wileroltiger-wollen-transitplaetze-im-ganzen-kanton-stoppen/story/25138084″]

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Now Who Is Dirty?

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The Swiss have a strong tendency on focusing on the dirt and especially on the excrement left over when Travellers are around or leave a camp… And now this – the very same people spread excrements and manure on the place that Roma were to be using as a camping site…
No comments …

– Excréments et purin pour faire fuir les Roms. In: 20 Minutes (CH). 29.08.2017. http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/suisse/story/Excrements-et-purin-pour-faire-fuir-les-Roms-18320846 [link-preview url=”http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/suisse/story/Excrements-et-purin-pour-faire-fuir-les-Roms-18320846″]

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Travellers and Switzerland

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This time, in Eastern Switzerland … They rented a piece of land from a Farmer and will stay for around 30 days.
– Fahrende sind wieder da. In: Tagblatt. 21.08.2017. http://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/fahrende-sind-wieder-da;art509043,5063338 [link-preview url=”http://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/fahrende-sind-wieder-da;art509043,5063338″]

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