The Central Council of German Sinti and Roma welcomes the national strategy adopted by the Federal Government “Fight antigypsyism, ensure participation!”
A typical article. A few correct facts, and many stereotypes …
Read the offering of a police academy in Kansas, USA. IT clearly shows that they have no clue about Roma and have racist stereotypes.
An article on the aftermath of a recent police killing of a young Rom near Athens.
More than half of Roma in Serbia do not know their rights or anti-discrimination mechanisms, according to a survey “Roma Perceptions of Discrimination” initiated by the Commissioner for Equality in Serbia and supported by the German NGO GIZ.
Residents are fuming against a Roma settlement in Poznan, fearing for their “safety”, complaining about noise, mess and smoke in the camp on Lechicka Street. The title says “Why do we allow 13-year-olds to get pregnant in the 21st century?”.
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If you are Rom and live in Slovakia, you are twice as likely to die if you get Covid than the rest of the population.
Bad.
Worthy reading!
Not surprising, unfortunately.
The Roma language with elements of Romani culture will be introduced in schools in the Tuzla Canton as of September, Indira Bajramović, president of the Association of Roma Women “Better Future”.
A report on a project for the inclusion of Roma in pre-school age that employed 233 Roma last year in Slovakia.
One region in the Czech Republic is re-instating caretakers in Roma communities after a 5 year hiatus.
A portrait of an activist, Gianni Jovanovic.
A picture which is impossible not to notice.
Rather quiet week in the French press on Roma. First, the case of lead poisoning in a camp near Paris. The levels found in the children’s blood is worrisome. Then, two fires near Paris: One in a camp, one in a squat. Finally, also near Paris, a mayor asks the state for funding having seen the Roma population double recently in his commune. In Montpellier, in the South, an attempt to stop the construction of an “insertion village” has been rebutted by the court.
Pictures of a Hungarian Telep.
The Roma Academy of Culture and Education (RAKO) in Sliven is proposing the establishment of a Bulgarian Roma Cultural Institute. The proposal was made by Stella Kostova from RACO at the conference “Support for the Vulnerable and Roma”, organized by BTA in Sliven within the initiative “Bulgarian Voices for Europe”.
A reportage on the aftermath of the killings in Hanau, Germany
To fight against child labor, and particularly young Roma, Albanian teachers’ unions are mobilizing, trying to prevent school dropouts. But difficult to fill all the gaps of a drifting system.
An unfortunately typical rant against Roma in the Slovene press. In this case, a person complaining that effectively Roma misuse social care money, that many underage woman have children, and that the Roma know “which button to press in Brussels”.
Maybe they should start by ending discrimination …
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