Discrimination Archives - rroma.org https://rroma.org/de/tag/discrimination/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:49:19 +0000 de hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Discrimination Archives - rroma.org https://rroma.org/de/tag/discrimination/ 32 32 Transcarpathian Roma https://rroma.org/de/transcarpathian-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=transcarpathian-roma Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:49:19 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27164 An unusual article about Roma in the Ukrainian Transcarpathian region. It states that over 10’000 Roma have left the region, […]

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]]> An unusual article about Roma in the Ukrainian Transcarpathian region. It states that over 10’000 Roma have left the region, and that the rest is living under difficult conditions. Journalists from the website zaholovok.com.ua talked with Myroslav Horvat, leader of the Roma community, Ivan Jonash, deputy of the Mukachevo City Council, and Viktor Ilchak, a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, about what the past year was like for the Roma community, whether changes are felt, whether there are positive developments, as well as about the negatives.

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]]> North Macedonia and Roma https://rroma.org/de/north-macedonia-and-roma-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=north-macedonia-and-roma-3 Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:47:11 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27157 An interview with Aziza Sally, coordinator of the association “Initiative for the Rights of Roma Women from Shuto Orizari”. She […]

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]]> An interview with Aziza Sally, coordinator of the association “Initiative for the Rights of Roma Women from Shuto Orizari”. She says that since the pandemic, not a single patronage nurse has visited a mother from the Roma community. Roma women have been facing the same problems in the country for decades – from discrimination in the educational process to institutional belittling and humiliation.

Bad.

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]]> Racism in Slovakia https://rroma.org/de/racism-in-slovakia-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=racism-in-slovakia-2 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:20:58 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27056 Marek Badžo and Darina Berková, a Roma couple, bought a house in the centre of the village of Nižná Myšla […]

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]]> Marek Badžo and Darina Berková, a Roma couple, bought a house in the centre of the village of Nižná Myšla in the Košice-okolie district. Some residents didn’t like it, so they wrote a petition. They mentioned the Roma origin of the new owners and their concerns that they might be unadaptable people who would cause problems in the village.

The residents justify their position by the mayor’s long-term failure to resolve the situation in the Roma community, and they also have reservations about the way the house was sold. Meanwhile, several politicians have been involved in the events in the village, who see discrimination and segregation in the behaviour of the locals.

Well, you don’t need a Ph.D. to see that.

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]]> Roma In Slovakia https://rroma.org/de/roma-in-slovakia-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-in-slovakia-3 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:20:07 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27053 To be a Rom in Slovakia is not easy. The stereotypes are  hard to overcome: poor, with many children, uneducated, […]

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]]> To be a Rom in Slovakia is not easy. The stereotypes are  hard to overcome: poor, with many children, uneducated, not willing to work and integrate, dirty, etc.

Lana, a 28 years old Romni from a small town in eastern Slovakia who now lives abroad, founded the Instagram profile “Kamiben” to counter these stereotypes and told about her experiences as a Romni iN Slovakia. Scary, for example, a customer refused to pay for groceries because a Romni touched them. It says a lot.

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]]> Slovakia: Discrimination https://rroma.org/de/slovakia-discrimination-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-discrimination-5 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:02:02 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26989 Michal Sivák, a gifted teacher and Rom has a job in a school in Bratislava. The problem: he can’t find […]

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]]> Michal Sivák, a gifted teacher and Rom has a job in a school in Bratislava. The problem: he can’t find an apartment as his applications are rejected because he is Rom.

He now says he won’t stay in education. What a waste.

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]]> Slovakia, Restaurants, and Discrimination https://rroma.org/de/slovakia-restaurants-and-discrimination/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-restaurants-and-discrimination Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:55:07 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26854 Another article about the survey of discrimination of Roma in restaurants in Slovakia. The survey came out last year, with […]

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]]> Another article about the survey of discrimination of Roma in restaurants in Slovakia. The survey came out last year, with a flurry of articles, but it is still “news” in Slovakia. Here, more on the fact that this could happen nowadays.

Well, it does.

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]]> Slovakia, Unemployment, and Roma https://rroma.org/de/slovakia-unemployment-and-roma-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-unemployment-and-roma-2 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:41:51 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26735 Slovakia is fifth among European countries for long term unemployment. Slovakia’s Minister of Labour Erik Tomáš from Hlas has now […]

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]]> Slovakia is fifth among European countries for long term unemployment. Slovakia’s Minister of Labour Erik Tomáš from Hlas has now come up with a solution that his critics describe as a whip for the unemployed. They could lose it for several months if they do not start working. They plan to offer them work along the lines of Hungary’s Orban Közmunca – a form of forced employment often under 19th century conditions.

The minister claims that they will affect all unemployed people and should not be considered discriminatory. However, the data shows that the percentage of Roma is highest in the districts of Slovakia where long-term unemployment is also the highest.

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]]> Kosovo and Schools https://rroma.org/de/kosovo-and-schools-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kosovo-and-schools-2 Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:23:47 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26729 Thousands of children from the Roma and Ashkali communities are excluded from the education system, despite all strategies aimed at […]

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]]> Thousands of children from the Roma and Ashkali communities are excluded from the education system, despite all strategies aimed at increasing their inclusion. Some of them attend Serbian schools, where they learn with texts that foster ethnic divisions and stereotypes. This situation raises concerns about integration and inter-ethnic coexistence in Kosovo.

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]]> Slovakia: Discrimination https://rroma.org/de/slovakia-discrimination-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-discrimination-4 Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:18:36 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26720 Researcher Michaela Ujházyová and lawyer Lucia Gandžalová from the Slovak National Centre for Human Rights did test Slovak restaurants. They […]

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]]> Researcher Michaela Ujházyová and lawyer Lucia Gandžalová from the Slovak National Centre for Human Rights did test Slovak restaurants. They focused on discriminatory practices against Roma in ten cities in eastern Slovakia.

During a test visit, a Roma couple in a restaurant was told that some products on the menu were not available. Or the staff told a Roma couple that the lunch menu or dessert was not ready yet or that they had already sold out. There was no problem with a non-Roma couple.

The research team involved couples in the situational testing who did not come directly from the places where the selected restaurants were located and who had not even been there. “In no case could it be an experience with specific guests who had previously behaved unacceptably there, disturbed other guests or had debts there,” explains Michaela Ujházyová.

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]]> Slovakia and Social Benefits https://rroma.org/de/slovakia-and-social-benefits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-and-social-benefits Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:09:35 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26668 The Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family (MPSVR) of the Slovak Republic presented a specific bill regulating the reduction […]

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]]> The Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family (MPSVR) of the Slovak Republic presented a specific bill regulating the reduction of social benefits in the event that a person able to work refuses to work. The discussion on the withdrawal of social benefits began in the middle of last year.

The issue here? Roma. And the work that the ministry is proposing is very much in line to what is being done in Hungary, so called közmunka [communal / public work] meaning cheap labour based on 19th century technology.

Bad.

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