There are suspicions of vote buying in poor communities in the Czech Republic during the last election.
Would not be surprising …
– Czech elections: Vote-buying suspected in poor community, Roma not involved. In: Romea. 26.10.2017. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-elections-vote-buying-suspected-in-poor-community-roma-not-involved [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-elections-vote-buying-suspected-in-poor-community-roma-not-involved”]
A further article on the Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister condemned for hate speech against Roma.
– Bulgarian deputy prime minister Valeri Simeonov convicted of hate speech. In: The Times. 26.10.2017. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bulgarian-deputy-prime-minister-valeri-simeonov-convicted-of-hate-speech-q8pk9xgqk [link-preview url=”https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bulgarian-deputy-prime-minister-valeri-simeonov-convicted-of-hate-speech-q8pk9xgqk”]
A pledge for Roma Programs that deliver…
– STATEMENT TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION ON THE PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON THE EVALUATION OF THE EU FRAMEWORK FOR NATIONAL ROMA INTEGRATION STRATEGIES UP TO 2020. In: EPHA. 26.10.2017. https://epha.org/joint-statement-pledge-for-a-future-eu-roma-framework-which-delivers/ [link-preview url=”https://epha.org/joint-statement-pledge-for-a-future-eu-roma-framework-which-delivers/”]
A Travellers and Roma horse fair in Snow, Gloucestershire. This fair has been held for centuries now.
The title and some of the article comments are typical of the way some of the papers write about Roma and Travellers in the UK.
– My big fat Gypsy Horse Fair: Travellers from all over the country converge on the Cotswolds for traditional festival. In: The Mail Online. 276.10.2017. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5021769/Stow-Gypsy-Horse-Fair-sees-hundreds-travellers-attend.html [link-preview url=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5021769/Stow-Gypsy-Horse-Fair-sees-hundreds-travellers-attend.html”]
Apparently, hundreds of Roma children were excluded from school in the Sheffield region due to racism and bullying.
This in the UK. Really?
– Crisis fears over hundreds of Roma and Gypsy pupils excluded from Sheffield schools. In: The Star. 26.10.2017. http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crisis-fears-over-hundreds-of-roma-and-gypsy-pupils-excluded-from-sheffield-schools-1-8825858 [link-preview url=”http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crisis-fears-over-hundreds-of-roma-and-gypsy-pupils-excluded-from-sheffield-schools-1-8825858″]
A new attack against the Roma neighbourhood of Vidikovac in Belgrade. This is the fourth attack. This time a group of 15 men lead by an investor who is trying to grab the land on which the Roma live smashed a door of one of the barracks and, according to some, even the roof.
Bad, especially since the police doesn’t care.
– NEUER ANGRIFF AUF ROMA IN DER BELGRADER SIEDLUNG VIDIKOVAC. In: Roma Anti Discrimination Network. 26.10.2017. http://ran.eu.com/neuer-angriff-auf-roma-in-der-belgrader-siedlung-vidikovac/ [link-preview url=”http://ran.eu.com/neuer-angriff-auf-roma-in-der-belgrader-siedlung-vidikovac/”]
A new exhibition opened in Heidelberg in Germany on the long path that Sinti and Roma had to go to achieve recognition.
– Ausstellung zeigt den langen Weg zur Anerkennung. In: Rhein Neckar Zeitung. 26.10.2017. https://www.rnz.de/nachrichten/heidelberg_artikel,-dokumentationszentrum-deutscher-sinti-und-rima-ausstellung-zeigt-den-langen-weg-zur-anerkennung-_arid,312008.html [link-preview url=”https://www.rnz.de/nachrichten/heidelberg_artikel,-dokumentationszentrum-deutscher-sinti-und-rima-ausstellung-zeigt-den-langen-weg-zur-anerkennung-_arid,312008.html”]
18 Roma families were iven the keys to their new apartment in a complex built with EU money. Good that they finally can return to their home, but bad that this is a de-facto segregated enclave.
– Roma families in Brcko got keys to new apartments. In: Independent Balkan News Agency. 25.10.2017. http://www.balkaneu.com/roma-families-in-brcko-got-keys-to-new-apartments/ [link-preview url=”http://www.balkaneu.com/roma-families-in-brcko-got-keys-to-new-apartments/”]
The Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Simeonov was found guilty of anti-Roma hate speech. In a speech in Parliament, he compared Roma to “stray dogs” and accused them to live “outside the rules of human behaviour”.
Good!
– Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Simeonov found guilty of anti-Roma hate speech – NGO. In: The Sofia Globe. 25.10.2017. https://sofiaglobe.com/2017/10/25/bulgarian-deputy-prime-minister-simeonov-found-guilty-of-anti-roma-hate-speech-ngo/
– Bulgarian deputy PM reprimanded over anti-Roma speech. In:: Channel News Asia. 25.10.2017.
Read more at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/bulgarian-deputy-pm-reprimanded-over-anti-roma-speech-9344038 [link-preview url=”https://sofiaglobe.com/2017/10/25/bulgarian-deputy-prime-minister-simeonov-found-guilty-of-anti-roma-hate-speech-ngo/ “]
The exhibition called “Racial Diagnosis: Gypsy” can be seen in Ingolstadt, Germany.
– “Rassendiagnose: Zigeuner”. In: Donaukurier. 24.10.2017. http://www.donaukurier.de/nachrichten/kultur/Ingolstadt-Rassendiagnose-Zigeuner;art598,3568665 [link-preview url=”http://www.donaukurier.de/nachrichten/kultur/Ingolstadt-Rassendiagnose-Zigeuner;art598,3568665″]
The Hungarian Minister (and Calvinist preacher) Zoltan Balog has made statements on Roma advocating segregation in schools and quite a few other ones. Here’s a long list.
– 10 things he really said: Zoltán Balog, Hungarian Minister for Human Resources. In: ERRC. 24.10.2017. http://www.errc.org/blog/10-things-he-really-said-zoltan-balog-hungarian-minister-for-human-resources/195 [link-preview url=”http://www.errc.org/blog/10-things-he-really-said-zoltan-balog-hungarian-minister-for-human-resources/195″]
A formal complaint against the Judge in a slavery affair has been dismissed. The Judge while condemning the Traveller’s family for a really horrid slavery case, made generalising comments about all Travellers and Roma.
Bad.
– Formal complaint dismissed over judges’ remarks made at Rooney family modern slavery case. In: Linconlshire Live. 24.10.2017. http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/formal-complaint-dismissed-over-judges-672120 [link-preview url=”http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/formal-complaint-dismissed-over-judges-672120″]
– https://www.youtube.com/user/fundidoanegro [link-preview url=”https://www.youtube.com/user/fundidoanegro”]
A forum on Roma employment will be held in Kosiče in Eastern Slovakia on October 26th. Experts from the non-governmental sector, as well as companies that are already working with marginalized Roma, will share their experience and know-how for other companies and help solve their particular issues. The event is called the Pro Bono Action Forum: Practical steps for Roma employment in your company.
– V Košiciach sa uskutoční fórum o zamestnávaní Rómov. In: Teraz. 24.10.2017. http://www.teraz.sk/regiony/kosice-forum-romovia-zamestnanie/288009-clanok.html [link-preview url=”http://www.teraz.sk/regiony/kosice-forum-romovia-zamestnanie/288009-clanok.html”]
Two US articles on Lety and the fact that the Czech government will finally buy the pig farm on the site.
Unfortunately, both articles contain misleading information. That 1’300 Roma were sent to Auschwitz from there, that there were 10’000 Roma in the Czech Republic before the War etc. Fact is that many people who were shipped to Auschwitz were not registered, and that no one knows how many Roma there was in the Czech Republic before the war.
One thing though is sure: After the War, there were none left.
May they rest in peace.
– Czechs to make memorial at ex-Nazi Roma concentration camp. In: The National Post. 23.10.2017. http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/czech-govt-to-buy-pig-farm-on-nazi-concentration-camp-land
– Czechs to make memorial at ex-Nazi Roma concentration camp. In: Fox News. 23.10.2017. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/23/czechs-to-make-memorial-at-ex-nazi-roma-concentration-camp.html [link-preview url=”http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/czech-govt-to-buy-pig-farm-on-nazi-concentration-camp-land “]
The protest last week of about 100 Roma in front of the Slovenaian parliament had quite an echo in the local press.
Good!
– Skupina Romov pred vlado zahteva odpravo diskriminacije. In: Delo. 16.10.2017. http://www.delo.si/novice/ljubljana/protest-romov-sredi-ljubljani.html
– Prvi romski protest. In: Mladina. 16.10.2017. http://www.mladina.si/182355/prvi-romski-protest/
– PROTESTNI SHOD ROMOV. In: RTV 4. 16.10.2017. http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/prvi-dnevnik/174496852
– Romi, končno. In: Večer, V Soboto. 21.10.2017. https://www.vecer.com/romi-koncno-6332800 [link-preview url=”https://www.vecer.com/romi-koncno-6332800″]
An article called “Aimer son corps au cœur du bidonville” [Love one’s body at the heart of a shantytown] takes us in quite a few sterotypes. An excellent analysis of the article and the stereotypes and prejudices is donen in Mediapart – a must read. In addition, this article was funded in part by the French state and universities.
Bad.
– Aimer son corps au cœur du bidonville. In: The Conversation. 13.10.2017. http://theconversation.com/aimer-son-corps-au-coeur-du-bidonville-85019
– Romstorie: Tintin chez les Roms. In: Mediapart. 18.10.2017. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jacques-debot/blog/181017/romstorie-tintin-chez-les-roms [link-preview url=”https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jacques-debot/blog/181017/romstorie-tintin-chez-les-roms”]
How do you turn a village around? An analysis of a successfully integrated mixed village in Slovakia.
– Rady zo Spišského Hrhova podľa skutočných udalostí. In: SME. 20.10.2017. https://komentare.sme.sk/c/20670590/rady-zo-spisskeho-hrhova-podla-skutocnych-udalosti.html [link-preview url=”https://komentare.sme.sk/c/20670590/rady-zo-spisskeho-hrhova-podla-skutocnych-udalosti.html”]
Back and forth in Poland about proper housing for Roma. The governor is for it, the communes say they have no money and won’t do it. And the Roma have nowhere to go.
Bad.
– Maszkowice. Nie będzie bloku dla Romów. In: Gazetta Krakowska. 20.10.2017. http://www.gazetakrakowska.pl/wiadomosci/nowy-sacz/a/maszkowice-nie-bedzie-bloku-dla-romow,12599284/ [link-preview url=”http://www.gazetakrakowska.pl/wiadomosci/nowy-sacz/a/maszkowice-nie-bedzie-bloku-dla-romow,12599284/”]
Yet another article, this time in Switzerland, about the Roma palaces of the city of Buzescu. Not good for all, and one can argue about the style.
– Die Roma-Paläste von Buzescu. In: 20 Minuten (CH). 21.10.2017. http://www.20min.ch/immobilien/story/13921220 [link-preview url=”http://www.20min.ch/immobilien/story/13921220″]
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