Tag Archives: Discrimination

Another article on the Slovenian village of Dobruška and its “Roma Problem”. According to the article, 350 Roma live there, and only two have work. Again, the question whether a Roma councillor would help.

In all these articles, the real question, i.e. why are all these Roma unemployed, is only addressed in a one way direction: Roma re not qualified, do not want to work, and so on, but never, that even with qualifications, nobody wants to give them work.

• Na dveh številkah v Dobruški vasi živi že 350 Romov; v službo hodita le dva. In: Svet 24. 17.10.2023. https://novice.svet24.si/clanek/novice/slovenija/652d2fbb103fb/v-obcini-skocjan-je-v-zadnjem-casu-romska-problematika-zelo-pereca

A statement by the Ombudsman Peter Svetina can raise a few eyebrows.  He visited the municipalities of Škocjan, Sevnica and Radeče, where he met with the mayors and opened the Ombudsman’s Corner. In Škocjan, he was informed about the problems they have with individual Roma. He Svetina emphasized that positive discrimination against the Roma minority cannot discriminate against the rights of the majority population.

• “Pozitivna diskriminacija Romov ne more biti izgovor za diskriminacijo večinskega prebivalstva”. In: Moja Dolenjska. 02.10.2023. https://moja-dolenjska.si/pozitivna-diskriminacija-romov-ne-more-biti-izgovor-za-diskriminacijo-vecinskega-prebivalstva/

After a months-long campaign, 11 mayors and mayors of Dolenj, Belokrajna and Posavina municipalities in Slovenia submitted proposals for changes to social legislation to the National Assembly. Throughout the collection of signatures, the mayors announced that the purpose of the changes was to protect the benefits of children from socially difficult backgrounds and to encourage interest in the integration of the unemployed into the labour market.

They of course kept silent the fact that the proposals target Roma, because otherwise the proposals would be rejected as unconstitutional, because they are discriminatory. But it is obvious that problems such as children’s non-enrolment in school are primarily associated with the Roma. The mayor of Novo Mesto, Gregor Macedoni, who is at the head of the initiative, told STA that their initiative deals in a general way with the problem of children who, being born in a “certain social environment”, are marked by the fact that they have no future, and there is a high probability that, that they will not finish primary school. According to his estimate, there are 1.5 percent of such children in Slovenia.

• Za romske otroke gre. In: Megafon. 02.09.2023. https://megafon.si/aktualno/za-romske-otroke-gre/