Germany’s top official for antiziganism criticizes “unacceptable conditions” in settlements for refugees and report discrimination against Ukrainian Roma in the distribution of relief supplies.
More help needs to reach Roma in the Ukraine. Germany’s top official for antiziganism says Roma face structural discrimination in Ukraine.
It is not good, as one third of them have experienced discrimination, and children are not enrolled in school.
A shame.
Layers in Krakow are helping Ukrainian refugees to obtain residency, health care, and other necessary things. It is a free service.
Good!
The W Stronę Dialogu Foundation, together with the Feminist Fund, has drawn attention to discrimination of Roma refugees in Poland. According to an aid organization volunteer, “Roma people are treated with contempt”. They are also segregated, and treated differently.
Not good.
A conference live from Budapest on May 3rd.
A couple of Kosovo Roma who had been in Germany for many years were facing deportation to Kosovo. They are now allowed to stay.
An article highlighting the fact that Roma refugees from the Ukraine are not welcome.
Refugees in the Ukraine have issues. They have even more when they are Roma.
An interview and views from the Ukraine.
The artists of the Khamoro festival performed in a refugee camp.
An article on Ukrainian Roma in Poland, and the story of discriminations in Poland and in the Ukraine.
An interview with Ms. Talewicz-Kwiatkowska on the situation of Roma in the Ukraine, on the reasons of their flight, and on racism.
Well, they have to fight against stereotypes, and since quite a few of them do not have Ukrainian IDs or passports, they are being accused of not being from there.
Bad.
The Czech government is denying Roma from the Ukraine who have a Hungarian passport or no Ukrainian proof of citizenship asylum. They ended up sleeping in Prague’s central railway station. Now, they will no longer be allowed to and are being put up in a tent camp. On Tuesday (May 31), they opened another temporary tent town for them, and the state offers them the opportunity to return home or to Hungary, if they also have Hungarian citizenship, free of charge. The editor of RTVS Boris Kršňák dealt with the topic at Rádiožurárna on Radio Slovakia.
An article on the fate of Roma refugees from the Ukraine camping at the railway station in Prague. The Prague government denies them help given to Ukrainian refugees, as many of these Roma also have a Hungarian passport.
In an environment where discriminatory attitudes toward Roma are widespread, Moldovan authorities have allowed – and in some cases suggested to volunteers – to prevent Roma refugees from staying in official accommodation, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.
Sad.
A Ukrainian summary of the Guardian article about Roma refugees from Transcarpathia. The article in which it is called a “festering crisis,” the newspaper describes how hundreds of people sleep in unsanitary conditions at the train station and asks about the actions of the Czech authorities.
“Unlike other Ukrainians who were offered refugee visas, these families found they had nowhere to go and no one needed them,” the newspaper writes.
The RFK and Kolektiv 115 groups convened a demonstration in support of Ukrainian Roma in front of the Czech Interior Ministry on Thursday. The organizers wanted to express that, according to them, the Czechia did not ensure basic security for all people fleeing Ukraine before the war.
Many of the Roma currently stuck in Prague’s central station have fled Ukraine but have a dual citizenship (Hungarian/Ukrainian) and are denied any help in the Czech Republic.
The issue of the Ukrainian Roma refugees who also have a Hungarian passport but whom no one wants, starting with Hungary itself. They were granted a Hungarian passport as part of Orban’s drive to grant citizenship to Hungarian speakers in neighbouring countries, but they are not wanted.
For several weeks, hundreds of Roma refugees who fled Ukraine have been refused residence permits in the Czech Republic. In Prague, dozens of families sleep on the floor of the Central Station. An open-air humanitarian crisis that led the authorities to build, last weekend, a guarded camp on the outskirts of the city for these unwanted war refugees.
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