Category Archives: Italy

Italy: Romanipen Exhibition

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Italy: Romanipen Exhibition

Rašid Nikolić, who is a skilled puppeteer and an activist of Roma culture, was chosen as director of the traveling exhibition ROMANIPEN, Identity and History of Romani culture. The multimedia exhibition opened in Boves and will reach Turin, Rimini and then Rome in the coming weeks.

Rome and Roma

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Rome and Roma

A diatribe against Roma in Rome and against the funding set to help them in the camps. The reason: the toxic fumes emanating from many of these camps due, most probably to the burning of wires to recuperate metals.

Football and Racism

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Football and Racism

Yet another case of insulting players calling one “Gypsy”. When will football tackle this?

Gypsy Musical Academy

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Gypsy Musical Academy

There is a “Gypsy Musical Academy” in Italy, and no, it has nothing to do with Roma. It is a school for artists who want to go into musicals.

Insulted

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Insulted

The Italian press is full of the story of an altercation of a Serbian footballer Sinisa Mihajlovic who clashed with the Italian police after being insulted as a “Gypsy” …

French Chronicle …

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The French news this week were overwhelmingly reporting about the issues in Italy where riots erupted after a Roma family was allocated a flat in a social housing. Many articles in the catholic French press on the pope and his intervention, but also about the overall situation of Roma. And otherwise, the beginning of the Ramadan for Moslem Roma and only two news on camps, one in the North, in Wattrelos, and in Grenoble.

– Le pape manifeste son soutien aux personnes roms victimes de discrimination. In: La Croix. 11.05.2019. https://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Catholicisme/Pape/Le-pape-manifeste-soutien-personnes-roms-victimes-discrimination-2019-05-11-1201021045
– L’Europe est l’espoir des Roms. In: La Croix. 12.05.2019. https://www.la-croix.com/Monde/Europe/LEurope-lespoir-Roms-2019-05-12-1201021176
– Le pape dénonce les tensions à Rome autour d’une famille rom en HLM. In: TV5 Monde. 09.05.2019. https://information.tv5monde.com/info/le-pape-denonce-les-tensions-rome-autour-d-une-famille-rom-en-hlm-299416
– L’attribution d’un HLM à une famille de Roms attise la tension. In: Le Courrier International. 09.05.2019. https://www.courrierinternational.com/revue-de-presse/italie-lattribution-dun-hlm-une-famille-de-roms-attise-la-tension
– Pape François: les Roms ne sont pas des “citoyens de seconde classe”. In: Cath.ch. 09.05.2019. https://www.cath.ch/newsf/pape-francois-les-roms-ne-sont-pas-des-citoyens-de-seconde-classe/
– Un groupe de Roms reçu par le Pape pour un temps de prière. In: Vatican News. 09.05.2019. https://www.vaticannews.va/fr/pape/news/2019-05/pape-francois-rencontre-priere-roms-sinte-vatican.html
– À Nantes, l’Europe bute sur l’intégration des Roms. In: Ouest France. 10.05.2019. https://larochesuryon.maville.com/sortir/infos_-a-nantes-l-europe-bute-sur-l-integration-des-roms_fil-3716819_actu.Htm
– Fête du ramadan à Clichy-sous-Bois : la main tendue des musulmans aux Roms. In: Le Parisien. 10.05.2019. http://www.leparisien.fr/seine-saint-denis-93/clichy-sous-bois-on-n-a-jamais-eu-de-probleme-avec-les-roms-10-05-2019-8069457.php
– Wattrelos Le camp de Roms du Sartel, une histoire sans fin. In: La Voix du Nord. 07.05.2019. https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/579468/article/2019-05-07/le-camp-de-roms-du-sartel-une-histoire-sans-fin
– Le Bidonville du terrain Courtade de Fontaine a été évacué et rasé vendredi 3 au matin. In: Place Grenet. 06.05.2019. https://www.placegrenet.fr/2019/05/06/bidonville-courtade-fontaine-evacuation/241234 [link-preview url=”https://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Catholicisme/Pape/Le-pape-manifeste-soutien-personnes-roms-victimes-discrimination-2019-05-11-1201021045 “]

Italy: More about the family

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The Family of Roma at the centre of the controversy and the mob in Rome are Bosnian Roma.

– Pope Backs Bosnian Roma Family Against Italian Rightists. In: Balkan Insights. 10.05.2019. https://balkaninsight.com/2019/05/10/bosnian-roma-family-defy-italian-rightist-protests/ [link-preview url=”https://balkaninsight.com/2019/05/10/bosnian-roma-family-defy-italian-rightist-protests/”]

Treviso: Protest

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Another protest against forthcoming evictions will take place on March 23 in Treviso. Several Roma organisations are organising the manifestation.

– Rom, sinti e caminanti tornano in piazza e invitano con loro gli ex partigiani. Treviso Today. 18.03.2019. http://www.trevisotoday.it/attualita/manifestazione-rom-anpi-partigiani-treviso-18-marzo-2019.html [link-preview url=”http://www.trevisotoday.it/attualita/manifestazione-rom-anpi-partigiani-treviso-18-marzo-2019.html”]

Trial

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Roma organisations are organising a show trial of Matteo Salvini for racism. The Italian deputy prime minister will be put on trial on the Piazza Esquilino on Feb. 20 from 16 to 18:00.

– I rom processano Salvini. A Roma la condanna: “Il razzismo è un reato”. In: Affari Italiani. 12.02.2019. http://www.affaritaliani.it/roma/i-rom-processano-salvini-a-roma-la-condanna-il-razzismo-un-reato-587438.html?refresh_ce
– Processiamo Matteo Salvini, il razzismo è reato: manifestazione a Roma. In: Agora Vox. 12.02.2019. https://www.agoravox.it/Processiamo-Matteo-Salvini-il.html [link-preview url=”https://www.agoravox.it/Processiamo-Matteo-Salvini-il.html”]

Italy – Protests

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On February 7th, Roma will protest in Venice in front of the regional parliament of the Veneto region against the evictions and ask for the implementation of the European structural Framework Agreements.

– Venezia: manifestazione Rom, Sinti e Caminanti contro il Decreto Sicurezza. In: Imola Oggi. 04.02.2019. https://www.imolaoggi.it/2019/02/04/venezia-manifestazione-rom-sinti-e-caminanti-contro-il-decreto-sicurezza/ [link-preview url=”https://www.imolaoggi.it/2019/02/04/venezia-manifestazione-rom-sinti-e-caminanti-contro-il-decreto-sicurezza/”]

Italy and Evictions

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Roma organisations asked for an urgent meeting with the interior minister (Salvini of the Lega) to ask for an immediate stop of the eviction of Roma camps that Salvini has been advocating loudly.

– Rom, sinti e caminanti a Roma per fermare gli sgomberi. In: Umbria Journal. 01.02.2019. https://www.umbriajournal.com/cronaca/rom-sinti-e-caminanti-a-roma-per-fermare-gli-sgomberi-298627/ [link-preview url=”https://www.umbriajournal.com/cronaca/rom-sinti-e-caminanti-a-roma-per-fermare-gli-sgomberi-298627/”]

Italy: Warning

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The Italian president Matarella warns against hate and racism ahead of the Holocaust Remembrance Day.

– Holocaust Remembrance Day a call to vigilance against hatred, Italy’s president warns. In: Xinhua. 25.01.2019. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/25/c_137772029.htm [link-preview url=”http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/25/c_137772029.htm”]

Well Done!

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Dijana Pavlovic, an actress and Romni activist is really engaged in the defence and for the integration of the Italian Roma community.

– Dijana Pavlovic works to give the Roma a more political voice. In: The Christian Science Monitor. 16.01.2019. https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2019/0116/Dijana-Pavlovic-works-to-give-the-Roma-a-more-political-voice [link-preview url=”https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2019/0116/Dijana-Pavlovic-works-to-give-the-Roma-a-more-political-voice”]

A First

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Congratulation to the first Irish traveller to obtain a PhD.

– Traveller is first from community in Ireland to receive PhD. In: BBC News. 15.01.2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46883557?fbclid=IwAR051WAZJgOIlU9wv6nyxUtE2luM1xZJMPrz5sGXpRQiMXuVRieVRjzXB1Q [link-preview url=”https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46883557?fbclid=IwAR051WAZJgOIlU9wv6nyxUtE2luM1xZJMPrz5sGXpRQiMXuVRieVRjzXB1Q”]

Italy: Citizen Income

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It is becoming embarrassing to the Lega as it is now coming out that the minimal citizen income that was promised by the government will also go to Roma in Italy. This is creating a controversy inside the movement.

– Il reddito di cittadinanza? Andrà anche ai Rom (italiani e stranieri). In: Next Quotidiano. 07.01.2019. https://www.nextquotidiano.it/rom-reddito-di-cittadinanza/ [link-preview url=”https://www.nextquotidiano.it/rom-reddito-di-cittadinanza/”]

Italy and Roma

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According to the association “Carta di Roma”has analysed the press reporting on Roma in Italy. Despite the fact that Roma and Sinti represent only 0.25% of the population, the anti-Gypsy “entiments are the highest on the European continent, reaching 82%. However, the majority of Roma and Sinti present in the country (4 out of 5) live in conventional housing, study, work and lead a life identical to that of any other Italian or foreign citizen present on the national territory .

– Rom e Sinti, la minoranza più discriminata d’Europa. In: Riforma. 04.01.2019. https://riforma.it/it/articolo/2019/01/03/rom-e-sinti-la-minoranza-piu-discriminata-deuropa [link-preview url=”https://riforma.it/it/articolo/2019/01/03/rom-e-sinti-la-minoranza-piu-discriminata-deuropa”]

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