Tag Archives: Discrimination

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Integrated …

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An article that highlights the situation of integrated Roma. Basically, for most politicians (and most of the population), they don’t exist, make less that one percent of the Roma population. And they cannot say they are, because they are then confronted to the stereotypes.

– „Kto nesmrdí, nie je cigán!“ alebo 6 krokov k rómskemu vlastenectvu. In: Dennik. 26.10.2018. https://dennikn.sk/blog/1275057/kto-nesmrdi-nie-je-cigan-alebo-6-krokov-k-romskemu-vlastenectvu/ [link-preview url=”https://dennikn.sk/blog/1275057/kto-nesmrdi-nie-je-cigan-alebo-6-krokov-k-romskemu-vlastenectvu/”]

Germany News Western Europe

A New Memorial

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A new memorial on the memory of murdered Sinti was inaugurated in a suburb of Mainz.
It is also meant to warn against new developments and increasing racism against Roma and Sinti.

– Das unvergessene Leid der Sinti-Familien. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine. 22.10.2018. http://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/gedenken-an-ermordete-sinti-familien-waehrend-der-nazi-aera-15849833.html
– Mahnmal für die Sinti mit bewegender Zeremonie In Okriftel eingeweiht. In: Höchster Kreisblat. 22.10.2018. http://www.kreisblatt.de/lokales/main-taunus-kreis/Mahnmal-fuer-die-Sinti-mit-bewegender-Zeremonie-In-Okriftel-eingeweiht;art676,3142230 [link-preview url=”http://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/gedenken-an-ermordete-sinti-familien-waehrend-der-nazi-aera-15849833.html “]

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French Chronicle …

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A new movie aims at deconstructing the stereotypes on Roma in Marseille – this is new in France. In Sètes, in the South, a temporary camp will be closed mid-November. In Montreuil, near Paris, yet another evacuation, and a pledge for the children who are the victims of such evacuations, losing their right to attend school in the process. Near Paris, in Noisy le Grand, a squat is provoking tensions in the neighbourhood. In the North, a Romni who is part of an integration program is again expulsed – nasty. Finally, the story of a young Rom from Romania who has created is own enterprise in Strasbourg.

– Marseille : un film qui démonte les clichés autour des Roms. In: La Marseillaise. 17.10.2018. http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/culture/cinema/72794-marseille-un-film-qui-demonte-les-cliches-autour-des-roms
– Sète : le camp transitoire de roms démantelé le 15 novembre. In: Le Midi Libre. 19.10.2018. https://www.midilibre.fr/2018/10/19/sete-le-camp-transitoire-de-roms-demantele-le-15-novembre,4738467.php
– Énième évacuation de Roms à Montreuil. In: Médiapart. 16.10.2018. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/beatrice-turpin/blog/161018/enieme-evacuation-de-roms-montreuil
– Enfants Roms, chassés de la ville-monde. In: Médiapart. 16.10.2018. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/161018/enfants-roms-chasses-de-la-ville-monde
– Noisy-le-Grand : le squat d’un hôtel provoque des tensions avec les riverains. In: Yahoo. 14.10.2018. https://fr.news.yahoo.com/noisy-grand-squat-d-hôtel-provoque-tensions-riverains-141952421.html
– La maman Rom en insertion à nouveau expulsée… I: La Voix du Nord. 19.10.2018. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/472757/article/2018-10-19/la-maman-rom-en-insertion-nouveau-expulsee
– Journée mondiale de lutte contre la pauvreté : Viorel, de la rue à la création d’entreprise à Strasbourg. In: France Bleu. 16.10.2018. https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/economie-social/viorel-auto-patron-rom-d-une-societe-de-nettoyage-de-voitures-a-domicile-1539705135 [link-preview url=”https://www.midilibre.fr/2018/10/19/sete-le-camp-transitoire-de-roms-demantele-le-15-novembre,4738467.php “]

News Eastern Europe Poland

Poland and Integration

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The President of the “Royal Roma Foundation”, Bogdan Trojanek, wrote to the president of the city of Puławy and the chairman of the city council. He accused the councillors of propagating harmful stereotypes, and asked the local authorities to define a new program to integrate this community with the participation of Roma.

– Zobacz także: Posłowie o Romach w Puławach, wyjazdowa komisja sejmowa. In: Dziennik wschodni. 13.10.2018. https://www.dziennikwschodni.pl/pulawy/prezes-krolewskiej-fundacji-romow-krytykuje-radnego-w-pismie-do-prezydenta-pulaw,n,1000228629.html [link-preview url=”https://www.dziennikwschodni.pl/pulawy/prezes-krolewskiej-fundacji-romow-krytykuje-radnego-w-pismie-do-prezydenta-pulaw,n,1000228629.html”]

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Belfast: Racism

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The plight of a Roma family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is not pretty.

– Roma granny said children are traumatised by repeated attacks on their South Belfast home. In: Belfast Live. 09.10.2018. https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/roma-granny-said-children-traumatised-15256355 [link-preview url=”https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/roma-granny-said-children-traumatised-15256355″]

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Czech Republic …

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Torture and racism … Some articles in the Czech press about a Rom who was tortured by the police.

– Policisté měli z muže vymlátit přiznání, hrozí jim až osm let! In: TN.cz. 17.09.2018. http://tn.nova.cz/clanek/policiste-meli-z-muze-vymlatit-priznani-hrozi-jim-az-osm-let.html
– Generální inspekce stíhá dva budějovické policisty kvůli mučení Roma. Přinutili ho k doznání ve věci, kterou nespáchal. In: Romea. 17.09.2018. http://www.romea.cz/cz/zpravodajstvi/domaci/generalni-inspekce-stiha-dva-budejovicke-policisty-kvuli-muceni-roma-prinutili-ho-k-doznani-ve-veci-kterou-nespachal
– Czech Inspector-General prosecuting two police officers for torturing Romani man into a false confession. In: Romea. 17.09.2018. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-inspector-general-prosecuting-two-police-officers-for-torturing-romani-man-into-a-false-confession#.W6CHARTFQoE.facebook [link-preview url=”http://tn.nova.cz/clanek/policiste-meli-z-muze-vymlatit-priznani-hrozi-jim-az-osm-let.html “]

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Czech Republic …

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Quite amazing when the French press, especially one close to the right, publishes an article about torture and racism in the Czech Republic.
If anyone has articles about it in the Czech press, please forward!

– En République tchèque, deux policiers accusés d’avoir torturé un homme d’origine rom. In: Paris Match. 17.09.2018. https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/International/En-Republique-tcheque-deux-policiers-accuses-d-avoir-torture-un-homme-d-origine-rom-1574893 [link-preview url=”https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/International/En-Republique-tcheque-deux-policiers-accuses-d-avoir-torture-un-homme-d-origine-rom-1574893″]

News Eastern Europe Ukraine

Ukraine – Reactions

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Ukrainian reactions to the BBC reportage on Roma in the Ukraine. Unfortunately, they really took the worst excerpts in this articles – perpetuating some of the standard stereotypes.

– “На підлозі туалетний папір і 13 дітей”: репортаж про жахливу бідність ромів в Україні. In: Obrozrevatel. 21.09.2018. https://www.obozrevatel.com/ukr/city/news/na-pidlozi-tualetnij-papir-i-13-ditej-reportazh-pro-zhahlivu-bidnist-romiv-v-ukraini.htm [link-preview url=”https://www.obozrevatel.com/ukr/city/news/na-pidlozi-tualetnij-papir-i-13-ditej-reportazh-pro-zhahlivu-bidnist-romiv-v-ukraini.htm”]

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Barrister

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An interview with Brigitta Balogh. She is a Romni, a migrant, and set to be the first openly Roma barrister in Britain.

– Brigitta Balogh: Woman set to become Britain’s first Roma barrister on Brexit insecurity and racism. In: The independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-first-roma-barrister-woman-brigitta-balogh-antigypsyism-racism-discrimination-brexit-a8547591.html [link-preview url=”https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-first-roma-barrister-woman-brigitta-balogh-antigypsyism-racism-discrimination-brexit-a8547591.html”]

Finland News Western Europe

Finland: Discrimination

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A case of discrimination was won in Finland against a store who discriminated against Romnja.
Good!

– Southern Finland store fined for discriminating against Roma woman. In: Yle Uutiset. 14.09.2018. https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/southern_finland_store_fined_for_discriminating_against_roma_woman/10404605 [link-preview url=”https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/southern_finland_store_fined_for_discriminating_against_roma_woman/10404605″]

Germany News Western Europe

Germany and Roma

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The German state wants to create an expert commission to analyse and understand the causes of racism against Roma and Sinti.
The Central Council of Sinti and Roma has already said they do not want to be aprt of this commission. We tend to agree with them.

– Expertengruppe soll in Kürze Feindschaft gegen Sinti und Roma erforschen. In: Die Zeit. 13.09.2018. https://www.zeit.de/news/2018-09/13/expertengruppe-soll-in-kuerze-feindschaft-gegen-sinti-und-roma-erforschen-20180913-doc-1925ru
– Zentralrat will nicht in Expertenkommission. In: Rhein Neckar Zeitung. 14.09.2018. https://www.rnz.de/politik/hintergrund_artikel,-berlin-zentralrat-will-nicht-in-expertenkommission-_arid,385910.html [link-preview url=”https://www.zeit.de/news/2018-09/13/expertengruppe-soll-in-kuerze-feindschaft-gegen-sinti-und-roma-erforschen-20180913-doc-1925ru “]

News Western Europe United Kingdom

Schools and Roma

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Roma children experience bullying and racism in schools in the UK.
Bad And funds are being cut.

– Gypsy pupils experience bullying and racism, MPs told. In: BBC News. 12.09.2018. https://www.bbc.com/news/education-45498034
– Funding cuts and bullying hitting Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils, MPs told. In: Schoolweek. 12.09.2018. https://schoolsweek.co.uk/funding-cuts-and-bullying-hitting-gypsy-roma-and-traveller-pupils-mps-told/ [link-preview url=”https://www.bbc.com/news/education-45498034 “]

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Even in Death …

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A young Roma girl dies. The family asks the priest to celebrate a mass for the girl. He refuses – allegedly because the girl was baptised by a Uniat priest (the Ukrainian Orthodox church).
No empathy and probably a good dose of racism.

– В пресс-службе Волынской епархии УПЦ объяснили, почему священник не отпел ребенка ромов. In: Religion Unian. 04.09.2018. https://religions.unian.net/orthodoxy/10249167-v-press-sluzhbe-volynskoy-eparhii-upc-obyasnili-pochemu-svyashchennik-ne-otpel-rebenka-romov.html
– НА ВОЛЫНИ СВЯЩЕННИК УПЦ МП ОТКАЗАЛСЯ ОТПЕВАТЬ РЕБЕНКА РОМОВ | ФОТО. In: 1Com. https://1k.com.ua/na-volyni-svyashhennik-upts-mp-otkazalsya-otpevat-rebenka-romov-foto.html [link-preview url=”https://religions.unian.net/orthodoxy/10249167-v-press-sluzhbe-volynskoy-eparhii-upc-obyasnili-pochemu-svyashchennik-ne-otpel-rebenka-romov.html “]

Germany News Western Europe

“Ausländer”

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To the point: In German, one should not use the concept of “Ausländerfeindlichkeit” – which can be translated by Xenophobia – but connotes more the hate of foreigners, but rather state that this is outright racism as there are very few chances if any that a blond Dane or Swede be confronted to it.
If you are Rom, black, or non Northern European, then things get more difficult.

– Wie Worte die Realität verfälschen. In: Spiegel Online. 06.09.2018. http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/chemnitz-berichterstattung-warum-auslaenderfeindlichkeit-das-falsche-wort-ist-a-1226620.html [link-preview url=”http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/chemnitz-berichterstattung-warum-auslaenderfeindlichkeit-das-falsche-wort-ist-a-1226620.html”]

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Sweden and Racism

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In the middle of the election campaign where the extreme nationalist right is making deep inroads, a Rom is killed, and no one speaks about it.
The truth about the increase racism and attacks against Roma in the country.

– Wenn Kinder einen Roma töten und keiner hinsieht. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. 04.09.2018. http://www.fr.de/politik/rassismus-in-schweden-wenn-kinder-einen-roma-toeten-und-keiner-hinsieht-a-1575826?GEPC=s2 [link-preview url=”http://www.fr.de/politik/rassismus-in-schweden-wenn-kinder-einen-roma-toeten-und-keiner-hinsieht-a-1575826?GEPC=s2″]

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Hungary and Education

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Ricsi and Tibi, two Hungarian Roma who studied in Miskolc in Eastern Hungary nearly have 20’000 followers on Youtube. They are making fun of stereotypes and daily discriminations Roma are confronted to. But they also want Roma to go to university and are engaged in helping them achieve it.

– « Nous aimerions que, pour les Roms, la possibilité de réussir devienne une évidence » In: Le Courrier d’Europe Centrale. 26.08.2018. https://courrierdeuropecentrale.fr/nous-aimerions-que-pour-les-roms-la-possibilite-de-reussir-devienne-une-evidence/ [link-preview url=”https://courrierdeuropecentrale.fr/nous-aimerions-que-pour-les-roms-la-possibilite-de-reussir-devienne-une-evidence/”]

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Roma in Europe

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A reportage on Ukrainian media in Slovakia – in Košice in the Lunik IX neighbourhood – and a reflection of Roma in Europe. What is positive is that they say that the integration of Roma is more of a problem of the majority than of the Roma. What is less so is that they say idiocies (that Roma lived in tent prior to the creation of the “vertical” ghettoes) and that they push a whole series of stereotypes.

– Місце ромів у Європі: як живуть та хто допомагає. In: Fakti. 28.08.2018. https://fakty.ictv.ua/ua/svit/20180828-mistse-romiv-u-yevropi-yak-zhyvut-ta-hto-dopomagaye/ [link-preview url=”https://fakty.ictv.ua/ua/svit/20180828-mistse-romiv-u-yevropi-yak-zhyvut-ta-hto-dopomagaye/”]

News Eastern Europe Ukraine

Again …

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Another article about the Roma thieves in Kyiv’s railway station. And again the generalisations / stereotypes.

– Банда цыган на центральном вокзале Киева ворует деньги у пассажиров (ВИДЕО). In: UA Reporter. 27.08.2018. https://ua-reporter.com/news/banda-cygan-na-centralnom-vokzale-kieva-voruet-dengi-u-passazhirov-video [link-preview url=”https://ua-reporter.com/news/banda-cygan-na-centralnom-vokzale-kieva-voruet-dengi-u-passazhirov-video”]

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Russian Nationalism

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Not surprisingly, Russians are getting increasingly nationalists and think that Russia is for Russians. The first victims thereof are clearly Roma …
Bad, especially in a country where there were very little stereotypes against Roma.

– Mehr Russen lehnen Fremde ab. In: Tageschau. 27.08.2018. https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/lewada-institut-101.html [link-preview url=”https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/lewada-institut-101.html”]

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Switzerland: Institutional Racism

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A young researcher from Göttingen in Germany has investigated the Swiss Federal Commission against Racism and comes out with a scathing review, saying Switzerland turns a blind eye on institutional racism and that the commission is actually fuelling it.

– Ist die Schweiz blind für Behörden-Rassismus? Das behauptet zumindest diese Forscherin. In: Watson. 19.08.2018. https://www.watson.ch/!519782544 [link-preview url=”https://www.watson.ch/!519782544″]

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