Monthly Archives: avril 2023

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Serbie

Child Marriages

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Serbia is working on an initiative to amend family law to define and recognize child marriage as a form of human trafficking, as 22-50% of Serbian Romane girls are married before the age of 18 years old.

A recent UNICEF report revealed that more than half of girls from Roma settlements in Serbia and 22% of girls from low-income families marry before the age of 18. Even more worryingly, 16% of Roma girls marry before the age of 15 and 5% give birth at this age.

As usual, take these percentages with a pinch of salt. These usually refer to the Roma that are recorded as such, not to all Roma.

France Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

French Chronicle …

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Not much this week in France. In Western France, in Angers, the authorities are asking themselves how to resolve the issue of 4 Roma camps in the city. Well, for 400 people, this should not be really complicated … An event in Brittany with Roma music and initiation to Romanes was organised in collaboration with a Roma association. Then the more usual: Near Paris, a camp will probably be closed and also near Paris, a squat in a former police building was evacuated.

Bosnie Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est

Bosnia and Roma

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The head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Brian Aggeler was in Mostar. He insisted that there is a need to improve education and the status of Roma besides fighting corruption in the country.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Serbie

Serbia and Higher Education

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Roma high school students visited the Faculty of Law. The Faculty of Law of the University of Niš has signed an agreement on cooperation with the Roma Education Foundation to ensure the greatest degree of inclusivity in education.

Let’s see if this works out …

République tchèque Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est

Roma Book Nomination

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33 books are nominated for the prestigious Czech Magnesia Litera award for the year 2022. Among them, a book by a Romano author, Patrick Banga entitle “True Way Out”.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Slovénie

Slovenia and Roma

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Another article on the speech of the Slovene President Nataša Pirc Musar who stated that the Roma community in our country is still very neglected, without access to basic rights such as drinking water, education, social and health care.

Allemagne Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

Buchenwald Mittelbau-Dora

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At the commemoration of the liberation of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps this year, the focus will be on the persecution of the Sinti and Roma under National Socialism. Sinti and Roma are one of the population groups that also suffered from the racial fanaticism of the National Socialists in Thuringia, explained the Turingian Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow on Thursday.

Bulgarie Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Ukraine

Ukrainian Roma Refugees

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According to this article in the Bulgarian press, about half of the Roma in the Ukraine are currently refugees and about a quarter of them have a relative fighting on the front. This statement was made by Ned’s Korunovska, of the European Institute for Art and Culture.

These numbers seem somewhat stretched. We doubt that many of the Roma from Transcarpathian Ukraine and Bessarabia fled. Some did, we can testify to this. This will need to be followed up.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Slovénie

Slovenia and Roma

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On World Roma Day, the President of the Slovenian Republic, Nataša Pirc Musar, organised a consultation in the presidential palace attended by members of the Council of the Roma Community and councillors from municipalities where Roma have the right to elect their representatives to the municipal council.

She bemoaned the lack of access to clean water, and the fact that the health and social services have let the Roma down in many communities.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Royaume-Uni

Roma in the UK

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A recent comprehensive survey highlighted the high level of racism against Roma in the UK, with up to two thirds of the Roma shaving experienced abuse or attacks.

Bad.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Slovénie

Roma day in Slovenia

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According to the Slovenian Ombudsman, the Constitution guarantees equality to the Roma, but in fact they are pushed away and excluded from society. The president of the Association of Roma in Slovenia, Jožek Horvat – Muc, assessed that the situation of the Roma community in Slovenia is better than in many other countries, despite this, many problems remain. Many Roma settlements are still communally unorganized, there are challenges in the education of Roma children and the employment of adult Roma. In order to improve the situation, it would be necessary to renew some measures that have proven to be outdated and ineffective in recent years, he warned.

Montenegro Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est

Montenegro and Begging

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The President of the Montenegro Roma Council, Mensur Šalaj, warned that the problem of child begging is widespread throughout the country. According to the council, there are no systemic measures to fight child begging, and often only the consequences, and not the causes, of this phenomenon are dealt with.

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