Tag Archives: Discrimination

Lithuania News Eastern Europe

Roma in Lithuania

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Roma in Lithuania are a community that still faces discrimination from ordinary people, but also from state institutions.

Roma we spoke to admit that they hear almost every day that a “Gypsy is a thief”, that they cannot be trusted, that they are liars and a cheats.

A Romni tells “Kurier Wileński” that “Roma’s life is very hard. Many of us would like to live like people of other nationalities: go to work, have friends not only among the Roma, not feel inferior. I’d love to get a job. I have looked for her many times, but as soon as I say that I am a gypsy, there are a thousand reasons to refuse me a job. I am over 50 years old and have never been to a doctor. Not because I don’t get sick, but because I don’t have insurance because I don’t work. A closed circle.”

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Interview with Lucie Fuková

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An interview with the commissioner for Roma minority affairs of the Czech Republic. She is being asked what the state is doing to prevent the recurrence of conflicts between Roma and Ukrainians and wether the Commissioner of the Council of Europe right when she claims that the Roma in the Czech Republic face discrimination.

News Eastern Europe Ukraine

Ukraine and Roma

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According to this article, a “flood” of complaints was filed with the police because of Roma renting apartments. According to the article, unsanitary conditions and neglect of parental responsibilities are often cited as a reason for the complaints.

How about mentioning poverty and discrimination?

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Slovenia: The Usual

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Another unfortunate article about Roma in the Slovenian press. They speak of criminality, brutality, gangs, and the like. In this article, they “explain” that Roma are driving customers away with the intent to extorting money from the businesses.

Bad.

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Genocide and now Discrimination

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Several articles highlighting the continuing discrimination of Roma in Europe.

Germany News Western Europe

Germany: Fight against Racism

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Sinti and Roma opened and anti-discrimination office in Nuremberg. They hope this will help highlight the current racism and discriminations faced by this minority in Germany and also contribute to the fight against racism.

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Discrimination in Hungary

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An article about Roma in Hungary and the discrimination they suffer in their lives. Good facts and description of the issues, were it not for the statement that the Hungarian Roma were made sedentary centuries ago… They never travelled except for going there.

This is typical of the French view of Roma: They are Travellers and it is a way of life…

News Western Europe Sweden

Sweden and Discrimination

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In his play “Tschandala”, the Swedish Roma actor Lindy Larsson talks about decades of discrimination against Roma in Sweden – and about his own depressing and touching family history.

It’s hard to bear what the man, standing at the edge of the stage in a pale cone of light, is saying. His father was taken from the family as a child and placed in a government home. There he was beaten, raped, tied up for days, imprisoned. Again and again. He almost succeeded in attempting suicide when he was eleven. Later, as a teenager, he was almost sterilized. And he almost spent his whole life in prison and never met his future wife.

Bulgaria News Eastern Europe

Bulgaria: Discrimination

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Two young Romnja in Bulgaria signed a contract for managing a restaurant. The contract was cancelled after a few days, apparently because of their ethnicity. The owner claims it is because of the tenant’s plans to organize noisy parties, weddings and baptisms.

Moldova News Eastern Europe

Moldova and Roma

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Well, the government sys all is well, Roma are involved, and the path to real integration is clear.

Roma organisations say this is basically a fairy tale …

News Western Europe United Kingdom

UK and Discrimination

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According to the council of Europe Roma and Travellers in the UK suffer persistent discrimination. Unfortunately, not changing at all.

Germany News Western Europe

Housing and Roma in Germany

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Two cases of houses in Berlin which are mostly rented by Roma, where the residents have been expelled and need to go, making space for newer constructions.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia and Discrimination

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The District Court of Bratislava ruled in the case of discrimination against a Rom, Ladislav Rácz, who was refused service in a cafe in Lučenec in 2017. The defendant must apologize to him for the discrimination and compensate him financially, the court’s decision is not final, as the defendant can still appeal.

Germany News Western Europe

Brandenburg and Roma

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The chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Romani, praised Brandenburg as exemplary with regard to its minority policy. “By making the fight against antiziganism a state goal, the state government is showing its responsibility to history and outlawing antiziganism as well as antisemitism,” said Rose on Tuesday after a conversation with Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD). “It sets an exemplary signal for our democratic constitutional state.”

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Hungary: Condemned

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Hungary was condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for the segregation of Roma in the education system and has been asked to provide a plan to remediate this.

It is doubtful whether Orban and his government will comply. Segregated schools are common in Hungary for Roma.

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