An article and testimonies of Rroma and their lives in the 20th century in central Slovakia. Holocaust, life under communism, the fall of the Iron curtain.
– Rómovia spomínajú na 20. storočie: Gadžo bol mojej dcére za svedka. In: Spravy Pravda. 21.01.2017. http://spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok/417444-romovia-spominaju-na-20-storocie-gadzo-bol-mojej-dcere-za-svedka/ [link-preview url=”http://spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok/417444-romovia-spominaju-na-20-storocie-gadzo-bol-mojej-dcere-za-svedka/”]
The project “give them a chance” was presented recently in Lendava. The project with its partners from Slovenia, Hungary and Croatia prepared a training program for teachers in various education programs and vocational training for adults taught by members of the Roma ethnic minority. As explained by Rachel Hojnik in the People’s University of Lendava the targets of this program are adult educators who work in areas where members of the Roma ethnic minority live.
– Tri države združile moči v projektu za večjo uspešnost izobraževanja odraslih Romov. In: Pomurec. 19.01.2017. http://www.pomurec.com/vsebina/41370/Tri_drzave_zdruzile_moci_v_projektu_za_vecjo_uspesnost_izobrazevanja_odraslih_Romov [link-preview url=”http://www.pomurec.com/vsebina/41370/Tri_drzave_zdruzile_moci_v_projektu_za_vecjo_uspesnost_izobrazevanja_odraslih_Romov”]
The Hague: The foundation O Lungo Drom (The Long Road) is organising and exhibition from the 3rd to the 25th of February at the Art Library in the library in Rijswijk. “Sinti and Roma over the centuries in the Netherlands”.
– Sinti en Roma in Nederland. In: Grootrijswijk. http://www.grootrijswijk.nl/activiteit/item/sinti-en-roma-in-nederland/81501 [link-preview url=”http://www.grootrijswijk.nl/activiteit/item/sinti-en-roma-in-nederland/81501″]
A few news this week in France. The camp on the tracks of the former “petite ceinture” railway in Paris and another one nearby in the 18th Arrondissement will have to be vacated within 4 weeks; a new centre for migrants is opening up in Ivry, north of Paris, and will also accommodate ca. 50 Rroma; the views of an Italian journalist of La Stampa on a French Northern Town; the closure of a squat in Toulouse; and, as usual Breizh Info (rightist webpage) on Rroma criminality.
– Les Roms de la “petite ceinture” ont 4 semaines pour quitter leurs bidonvilles. In: L’Express. 18.01.2017. http://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/styles/les-roms-de-la-petite-ceinture-ont-4-semaines-pour-quitter-leurs-bidonvilles_1870414.html
– Démantèlement imminent pour le bidonville de la Porte de la Chapelle à Paris. In: France Bleu. 16.01.2017. https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/paris-le-sort-du-bidonville-de-la-porte-de-la-chapelle-devant-la-justice-1484432954
– Un sursis de quatre semaines pour les bidonvilles Roms. In: Le Parisien. 18.01.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75018/un-sursis-de-quatre-semaines-pour-les-bidonvilles-roms-18-01-2017-6585513.php
– Migrants: Ivry va accueillir des femmes dans son nouveau centre. In: Arte. 16.01.2017. http://info.arte.tv/fr/afp/actualites/migrants-ivry-va-accueillir-des-femmes-dans-son-nouveau-centre
– Ouverture jeudi à Ivry d’un nouveau centre d’accueil pour migrants. In: Le Parisien. 16.01.2017. http://www.itele.fr/france/video/ouverture-jeudi-a-ivry-dun-nouveau-centre-daccueil-pour-migrants-172407
– Un second centre pour migrants ouvre jeudi à Ivry-sur-Seine. In: Reuters. 16.01.2017. http://fr.reuters.com/article/topNews/idFRKBN1501XS
– Paris : Le centre humanitaire pour femmes et familles migrantes ouvre ce jeudi à Ivry. In: 20 Minutes (FR). 16.01.2017. http://www.20minutes.fr/paris/1996727-20170116-paris-centre-humanitaire-femmes-familles-migrantes-ouvre-jeudi-ivry
– Un journal italien de référence se penche sur le sort de la ville. In: La Voix du Nord. 20.01.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/106437/article/2017-01-20/un-journal-italien-de-reference-se-penche-sur-le-sort-de-la-ville
– Six mois pour résorber la mini “jungle” de Toulouse ? In: Le Point. 21.01.2017. http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/six-mois-pour-resorber-la-mini-jungle-de-toulouse-21-01-2017-2098971_23.php
– Voitures pillées à Machecoul – La délinquance s’installe dans le Sud Loire. In: Breizh Info. 17.01.2017. http://www.breizh-info.com/2017/01/16/58998/voitures-vandalisme-machecoul-delinquance-sud-loire [link-preview url=”https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/paris-le-sort-du-bidonville-de-la-porte-de-la-chapelle-devant-la-justice-1484432954 “]
The reality in Czech schools: Racism against Rroma is prevalent. Read the article …
BAD.
– Carmen Russo: The Fight For a Better Future. Battling Racism in Czech Schools. In: Romea.cz. 12.01.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/the-fight-for-a-better-future-battling-racism-in-czech-schools-carmen-russo
– Carmen Russo: Útěk za lepší budoucností a boj s rasismem v českých školách. In: Romea.cz. 16.01.2017. http://www.romea.cz/cz/zpravodajstvi/carmen-russo-utek-za-lepsi-budoucnosti-a-boj-s-rasismem-v-ceskych-skolach [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/the-fight-for-a-better-future-battling-racism-in-czech-schools-carmen-russo “]
A bibliography of Romani Rose, chairman of the Central Council of Sinti and Roma in Germany has just been published.
– https://www.facebook.com/Behar-Heinemann-Romani-Rose-ein-Leben-für-die-Menschenrechte-220504378360182/ [link-preview url=”https://www.facebook.com/Behar-Heinemann-Romani-Rose-ein-Leben-für-die-Menschenrechte-220504378360182/”]
The German television ARD will present a movie on the Rroma Holocaust today, January 21st. It can be seen on Internet too.
– Program ARD. http://programm.ard.de/?sendung=2848619562556891 [link-preview url=”http://programm.ard.de/?sendung=2848619562556891″]
In Krško, the municipality is planning a residential neighbourhood on the site of a Rroma settlement. A petition was launched and the Slovenian government referred it back to the municipality…
This is not the first time that Rroma are evicted in this manner.
– Krški župan Stanko: Vlada odgovornost pri nameravani gradnji na območju romskega zaselka prelaga na občino. In: STA. 20.01.2017. https://www.sta.si/2347637/krski-zupan-stanko-vlada-odgovornost-pri-nameravani-gradnji-na-obmocju-romskega-zaselka-prelaga-na-obcino [link-preview url=”https://www.sta.si/2347637/krski-zupan-stanko-vlada-odgovornost-pri-nameravani-gradnji-na-obmocju-romskega-zaselka-prelaga-na-obcino”]
A testimony of massacres of Rroma during World War Two in Slovakia. Rroma there were often accused to collaborate with the resistance and were therefore deported or simply executed. While this was true in some cases, in others, this was simply a pretext to kill Rroma.
The testimony here is about a massacre in the village of Čierneho Balog in central Slovakia.
– Neviem, kde sa vo mne tá odvaha nabrala. In: Dennik. 20.01.2017. https://dennikn.sk/blog/neviem-kde-sa-vo-mne-ta-odvaha-nabrala/ [link-preview url=”https://dennikn.sk/blog/neviem-kde-sa-vo-mne-ta-odvaha-nabrala/”]
Another report on the institutional racism against Rroma children in UK’s schools, this time in Sheffield.
Bad!
‘Sheffield is welcoming – but not for young Roma Slovaks’. In: The Telegraph. 19.01.2017. http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/sheffield-is-welcoming-but-not-for-young-roma-slovaks-1-8340923 [link-preview url=”http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/sheffield-is-welcoming-but-not-for-young-roma-slovaks-1-8340923″]
A follow up on the anti-Rroma posters and leaflets being distributed in Odessa since the end of last year. The people who distribute them are still not identified, and it seems that not much is being done …
– Як боротись з ксенофобними листівками? In: Громадське Радіо. 15.01.2017. https://hromadskeradio.org/programs/rankova-hvylya/yak-borotys-z-ksenofobnymy-listivkamy [link-preview url=”https://hromadskeradio.org/programs/rankova-hvylya/yak-borotys-z-ksenofobnymy-listivkamy”]
The European Court for Human Rights condemned Hungary for its lack of protection of Rroma against extreme rightist violence. This is the consequence of a march of ca. 500 Jobbik members through a Rroma neighbourhood in Devecser, chanting racist slogan and threatening the Rroma who lived there. The police did of course nothing.
Ungarn wegen mangelndem Schutz von Roma vor Rechtsextremen verurteilt. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 17.01.2017. https://www.nzz.ch/international/europaeischer-menschenrechtsgerichtshof-ungarn-wegen-mangelndem-schutz-von-roma-vor-rechtsextremen-verurteilt-ld.140407 [link-preview url=”https://www.nzz.ch/international/europaeischer-menschenrechtsgerichtshof-ungarn-wegen-mangelndem-schutz-von-roma-vor-rechtsextremen-verurteilt-ld.140407″]
A small grassroots project helping Rroma in Hungary. Not many, but better than nothing.
– Roma-Familien in Ungarn bekommen Unterstützung aus Eickel. In: WAZ. 18.01.2017. http://www.waz.de/staedte/herne-wanne-eickel/roma-familien-in-ungarn-bekommen-unterstuetzung-aus-eickel-id209319103.html [link-preview url=”http://www.waz.de/staedte/herne-wanne-eickel/roma-familien-in-ungarn-bekommen-unterstuetzung-aus-eickel-id209319103.html”]
The Gdansk police could not determine the perpetrators of last year’s assault on two Roma families living in a Rroma settlement. The attack on 15 people took place on May 11th of last year before and after a football match. Suspicions are that the police did not really do much to find the culprits.
– Napadli na dwie rodziny, ale pozostają bezkarni. In: Fak24. 18.91.2017. http://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polska/trojmiasto/gdansk-napad-na-romow-sprawcy-pozostaja-bezkarni/emf6c5k [link-preview url=”http://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polska/trojmiasto/gdansk-napad-na-romow-sprawcy-pozostaja-bezkarni/emf6c5k”]
Romea, the Czech Rroma Information network is planning to introduce weekly interviews of people who are helping Rrom and their integration. We will certainly highlight these in the newsfeed!
– Together We Can: David Tišer. In: Romea. 18.01.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/together-we-can-david-tiser [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/together-we-can-david-tiser”]
The exhibition on Rroma Holocaust housed in the NS Documentation Centre in Munich will be extended until February 12. Worthwhile seing.
– München · Ausstellung über Sinti und Roma wird verlängert. In: München Wochen Anzeiger. 16.01.2017. http://www.wochenanzeiger.de/article/186176.html [link-preview url=”http://www.wochenanzeiger.de/article/186176.html”]
More on the saga of the camps in Rome. Now the plan for the closure (and not the closure) will be ready by the end of the month… What is so complicated?
And by the way, the state gives out 23 Mio EUR for these camps per year, this for ca. 5’000 Rroma. Close to 5’000 EUR per head.
Someone is making money there.
– Roma, giunta Raggi: «Censiremo i campi poi la chiusura entro il 31 gennaio». In: Il Messagero. 17.01.2017. http://www.ilmessaggero.it/roma/campidoglio/roma_roma_raggi_campi-2198886.html [link-preview url=”http://www.ilmessaggero.it/roma/campidoglio/roma_roma_raggi_campi-2198886.html”]
The recipients of this year Wallenberg price, named after the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Hungary during World War Two were named. Among them there is a Rroma association, Chakra teachings of Moldava nad Bodvou. The aim of the association is to achieve integration through education.
Well done!
– Wallenbergovu cenu získalo aj slovenské rómske združenie. In: Aktuality. 17.01.2017. https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/407616/wallenbergovu-cenu-ziskalo-aj-slovenske-romske-zdruzenie/ [link-preview url=”https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/407616/wallenbergovu-cenu-ziskalo-aj-slovenske-romske-zdruzenie/”]
An interview of the young Rromni Leonarda Dibrani who was expulsed from France together with her family (in spite of being in school). While they were expelled to Kosovo, she now lives in Croatia, which says a lot about the “safety” of Kosovo for Rroma. And it is difficult for her.
A worthy read on the damage of mistaken Refugee policies.
– La jeune rom kosovare, expulsée avec sa famille de notre pays en 2013, a raconté son quotidien en Croatie à “BFMtv”. “Je peux venir en France quand je veux !”, a-t-elle notamment lancé. In: Planet.fr. 09.01.2017. http://www.planet.fr/international-la-nouvelle-vie-de-leonarda-en-croatie.1280920.29335.html
– Leonarda Dibrani : “J’ai envie de revenir en France pour remercier les gens qui m’ont aidée. In: France Infos. 09.01.2017. http://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/roms/expulsion-de-leonarda/leonarda-dibrani-j-ai-envie-de-revenir-en-france-pour-remercier-les-gens-qui-m-ont-aidee_2008851.html [link-preview url=”http://www.planet.fr/international-la-nouvelle-vie-de-leonarda-en-croatie.1280920.29335.html “]
An exhibition on the theme of “Antitziganism” in Gernany. We do dislike the term as it is a bad copy of another term, and would rather stick to simple racism …
– Ausstellung zum Antiziganismus an der BTHS. In: NH24H. 15.01.2017. http://nh24.de/index.php/panorama/22-allgemein/93055-ausstellung-zum-antiziganismus-an-der-bths [link-preview url=”http://nh24.de/index.php/panorama/22-allgemein/93055-ausstellung-zum-antiziganismus-an-der-bths”]
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