{"id":1672,"date":"2014-02-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/21-02-2014-discrimination-against-rroma-in-hungary-worryingly-high\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:48:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:48:30","slug":"21-02-2014-discrimination-against-rroma-in-hungary-worryingly-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/21-02-2014-discrimination-against-rroma-in-hungary-worryingly-high\/","title":{"rendered":"21.02.2014 Discrimination against Rroma in Hungary worryingly high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Matache (2014) reports on \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe results of a study published by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tat Harvard University. The study criticises the increasing institutional racism \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tagainst the Rroma in Hungary and the tolerance of extremist groups who rally \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tagainst the minority. The discrimination against Rroma has strongly increased since \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe beginning of the economic crisis in 2008. The Hungarian government did \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talmost do nothing to respond to these recent development: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cThough the rise of racially motivated crimes and violent attacks since \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2008 should have given strong signals for intervention, the FXB report shows \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thow weak Hungarian government\u2019s response has been. Because of its failure to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tact definitively, perpetrators and their followers have been emboldened, unhindered \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tby any public outrage or strong government sanction. Racist violence is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tincreasingly accepted as a legitimate form of retribution, a model followed by \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcitizens, organisations, and leaders alike.\u201d <\/em>The Hungarian minister of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thuman resources, Zolt\u00e1n Balog, meanwhile emphasises in his public statements the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstrong efforts of Hungary to successfully integrate the Rroma in the majority \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsociety. He particularly draws attention to the economic potential of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tminority. In his opinion, great progress has been made. However, that his point \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof view is the one of a politician of the ruling party, should not be \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tforgotten. Concern about the increasing racism is appropriate (compare FXB \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCenter 2014).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB) (2014) Accelerating \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPatterns of Anti-Roma Violence in Hungary. Havard: Harvard School of Public \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHealth and Harvard University. <a href=\"http:\/\/fxb.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/02\/FXB-Hungary-Report_Released-February-4-2014.pdf\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/fxb.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/02\/FXB-Hungary-Report_Released-February-4-2014.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Matache, Margareta (2014) Persecution of Roma in Hungary is spiralling out of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcontrol. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The Conversation online<\/em> vom 17.2.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/persecution-of-roma-in-hungary-is-spiralling-out-of-control-23262\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/theconversation.com\/persecution-of-roma-in-hungary-is-spiralling-out-of-control-23262<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matache (2014) reports on the results of a study published by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[599,14,15],"tags":[92,35,63,24,23,649,133],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hungary","category-news-eastern-europe","category-news-western-europe","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-racism","tag-roma","tag-rroma","tag-schools","tag-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11825,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/11825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}