The 81st anniversary of the first transport to the Roma camp in Auschwitz was commemorated.
The W Stron Dialogu (Towards Dialogue ) Foundation works for the Roma community in Poland, writes that “Roma and Roma women from Ukraine who found shelter in Poland faced – and still face – discrimination, worse treatment and rejection.” The organization believes that Roma refugees from Ukraine have become “second-class refugees ignored by the current authorities, which turned a blind eye to segregation and the lack of access of Roma women and men to collective accommodation centres, thus allowing discrimination against this weakest group of refugees.”
They launched an appeal to the Polish Government.
A reportage on recent research on Roma and Sinti in the German region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
In the castle of Modrý Kameň, Slovakia, they are preparing a rerun of the exhibition called “The Story of the Children of the Wind”. The exhibition retraces the story of Roma in Slovakia from the 13th century to 1990. The exhibition will open on March 1st and stay until May 15th.
A reportage on the Housing Estate of Lunik IX, a derelict place housing a large Roma community.
The romano singer Jan Bendig has spoken out after four days of silence since the police said the attack in Český slavík, where he was pelted with flour by an alleged racist, was staged. He posted a lengthy statement on his Facebook profile in which he apologizes for his silence, denies that the attack was premeditated and explains what he believes happened. However, his words contradict what the police investigation found.
Twenty years ago, Roma rioted in Trebišov, and the police intervened in the Roma settlement. The view of the article is very much tilted towards the police and maintaining order, and insists on the looting that took place in the eastern part of the country.
On the background of this riot, no words … A missed opportunity.
About 150 Roma from Moldova are going to be expelled from Belgium. They are currently squatting an empty office.
A house housing roughly 80 Roma who otherwise would be sleeping on the rough will be closed. No alternatives have been proposed.
Roma, together with the LGBT+ community are the main victims of hate speech and racism. Even politicians make racists comments about the country’s largest minority.
A few days ago, a police raid on a Roma camp in Belgrade turned into a pogrom. Violence and racism against the minority are increasing, to the indifference of the authorities and almost the entire political class.
This is bad.
The usual litany, unfortunately. In Marseilles, the State has presented a plan to integrate the ca. 900 Roma who live in camps through employment. About time… In Marseilles too, the planned insertion village will not be built, and another camp will be closed. Finally, two young Romnja are in court near Paris for having aggressed the wife of a policeman (not very smart from them).
Two years have passed already since the beginning of the Russian aggression in the Ukraine. Two years of war, two years of mindless killings. Many refugees, and here, as we are a Romani page, let us pause to think about Roma in this war.
They were displaced, especially in the Eastern part of the country. They were killed by Russian troops in several occasions. They were deported by Russian authorities. They also fought on the Ukrainian side, with many Roma in the current army, even the normally not so accepted Roma from Transcarpathian Ukraine.
Roma refugees in Europe were confronted with racist stereotypes and had to fight there too.
Let’s hope we do not need to commemorate another year.
For those who died, may they rest in peace, and for those who live, may they do so for 100 years.
Two articles in the Polish press about a Romni activist and Ukrainian refugee currently in Poland.
The Slovak Entrepreneur of the Year Adele Vincze explains her approach to employing Roma.
The fate of a Roma camp in Poznan never ceases to make the headlines. This time it is because a needed environmental decision by the local government has been postponed, meaning the project of building a housing estate (and removing Roma) cannot go ahead…
The Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová was in Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovakia to commemorate the victims of the mass murder of Roma in the Dubnica detention camp in 1945.
May they rest in peace, and congratulation to the president for this participation.
An exhibition of photographs taken by young Roma from Roma settlements is being shown in Prague 400ASA gallery. They are the results of workshops with the Roma youngsters.
Well done!
In 2006, the city of Vsetín turned to the Constitutional Court (ÚS) in the case of Roma eviction. The Supreme Court (NS) recently increased the compensation to several Roma families who had to move out of Vsetín. Four families with 46 NS members were awarded compensation from the city in the aggregate amount of 1.825 million crowns, the management of the Vsetín town hall considers unfair.
On the occasion of the celebration of International Mother Language Day, the Romanipen Educational and Cultural Community from Kragujevac organized a public forum “Roma language – a beacon of preservation of Roma cultural identity” as part of the project “Spin the wheel of Roma culture”.
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