{"id":1718,"date":"2014-01-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/24-01-2014-discrimination-of-rroma-in-europe-continues\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:48:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:48:35","slug":"24-01-2014-discrimination-of-rroma-in-europe-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/24-01-2014-discrimination-of-rroma-in-europe-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"24.01.2014 Discrimination of Rroma in Europe continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The human rights organization Human Rights Watch (2014) published is \u201cWorld \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tReport 2014\u201d on the discrimination of the Rroma in the European Union. The \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treport notes that the Rroma are still victims of massive exclusion. They are \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe main victims of the significant increase in right-wing policies and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpoliticians, together with immigrants and homosexuals. For Germany, this means \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat Rroma migrants are being confronted with strong prejudices and that the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdeportation practices do not verify the conditions and discrimination in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcountries of origin like the Kosovo. France has set a new record in evictions \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tduring 2013: around 13,000 Rroma were evicted from their informal settlements \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tduring the period of January to September. In Greece, Human Rights Watch critiques \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe continuing segregation of Rroma in public schools. Additionally, the Rroma are \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbeing illegally persecuted and monitored by the authorities. For Croatia, the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\torganisation criticised the exclusion of Rroma from public institutions such as \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tschools, hospitals and social institutions. In Romania, the Rroma are still \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvictims of numerous evictions and are generally disadvantaged in public life. A \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tparticularly bad assessment befalls Hungary, when it comes to the integration \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof Rroma. The report notes: \u201cRoma were \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfaced also last year with discrimination and harassment. The mayor of the city \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOzd in northern Hungary separated Roma settlements with an estimated 500 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfamilies from the public water network. In January, the European Court of Human Rights judged \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHungary guilty of discriminating two Rroma students, because the authorities \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thad placed them in special schools. In July, the court upheld the decision of a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprohibition on the Hungarian Guard, an extremist group agitating against Jews \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand Rroma. In August, a Budapest court convicted four men for murder, who had \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbeen involved in racist attacks in the years 2008 and 2009, in which six Roma had \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbeen killed, including a child.\u201d <\/em>As long as the economic conditions in Europe remain \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpoor, the Rroma face an unfavourable fate. They are the first to suffer from \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsocial ills. It is much to be hoped that the bad tradition of centuries-old \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdiscrimination against the minority will soon be consigned to history.<\/p>\n