The Hungarian super minister (and protestant minister) is still advocating segregated schools for Roma. Not the first time, and probably not the last time either, unfortunately.
– https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanRomaRightsCentre/photos/a.367490363319026.81028.152127778188620/1399814260086626/?type=3&theater [link-preview url=”https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanRomaRightsCentre/photos/a.367490363319026.81028.152127778188620/1399814260086626/?type=3&theater”]
Travellers’ and Roma children are 10 times less likely than the rest to attend university. This is the result of outright discrimination at every school stage.
– Research shows Traveller pupils less likely to go to university. In: Irish World. 21.07.2017. http://www.theirishworld.com/research-shows-traveller-pupils-less-likely-go-university/ [link-preview url=”http://www.theirishworld.com/research-shows-traveller-pupils-less-likely-go-university/”]
Racism seems to be a serious issue in the UK, especially against Roma and travellers.
Shame.
– Schools need to address the last acceptable form of racism. In: School Week. 16.07.2017. http://schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-need-to-address-the-last-acceptable-form-of-racism/ [link-preview url=”http://schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-need-to-address-the-last-acceptable-form-of-racism/”]
An article on the unfortunately very common racism found in schools in the UK, especially against Roma and Travellers.
BAD.
– Racism in schools isn’t just part of the grim past – it’s hiding in plain sight. In: The Guardian. 07.07.2017. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/07/racism-schools-bame-pupils-teachers [link-preview url=”https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/07/racism-schools-bame-pupils-teachers”]
The planned opening of a memorial to the Roma victims of the Holocaust in Hodonin, on the site of a former concentration camp, has been delayed indefinitely. This is the result of a possible transfer of ownership of the memorial and exhibition from the Education Ministry to the Government Council for Roma Minority Affairs.
Well, seems that the Czech prefer not to dwell too much on the fact that they killed nearly all Roma in the country during World War Two.
– Memorial to Czech Roma Holocaust delayed. In: The Prague Monitor. 30.06.2017. http://praguemonitor.com/2017/06/30/memorial-czech-roma-holocaust-delayed [link-preview url=”http://praguemonitor.com/2017/06/30/memorial-czech-roma-holocaust-delayed”]
The Greek minister of Public Order, Nikos Toskas, stated that the root causes of the riot following the accidental shooting of an 11 years old boy will take time to be resolved. He stated that the budget for the integration of the Roma had been cut by more than 80% due to the crisis, thus contributing to the current explosion.
– Education and Social Integration Program for Roma in Greece Suffers 80% Budget Cut. In: Greek Reporter. 16.06.2017. http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/06/16/education-and-social-integration-program-for-roma-in-greece-suffers-80-budget-cut/#sthash.Gpl665nv.dpuf
– Budget cuts hurt outreach to Roma schools in Menidi. In: Ekathimerini. 16.06.2017. http://www.ekathimerini.com/219294/article/ekathimerini/news/budget-cuts-hurt-outreach-to-roma-schools-in-menidi [link-preview url=”http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/06/16/education-and-social-integration-program-for-roma-in-greece-suffers-80-budget-cut/#sthash.Gpl665nv.dpuf”]
The International School for Social and Business Studies in Celje (Slovenia) conducted a national consultation on the integration of migrants and Roma in schools. As the project manager RoMigSc Nada Trunk Širca said, the project is aimed at identifying best practices for improving policies for Roma integration and migrant children in school.
– V Celju o vključevanju Romov in migrantov v šole. In: STA. 15.06.2017. https://www.sta.si/2398919/v-celju-o-vkljucevanju-romov-in-migrantov-v-sole [link-preview url=”https://www.sta.si/2398919/v-celju-o-vkljucevanju-romov-in-migrantov-v-sole”]
Residents of Menidi a suburb to the North of Athens, have been clashing with the police and rioting against Roma following the death of a 11 years old boy who was killed by a stray bullet in the schoolyard.
A 23 years old Rom was arrested in connection with the stray bullet.
– Greek Riot Police Stop Angry Crowd From Attacking Roma Community. In: Greek Reporter. 12.06.2017. http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/06/12/greek-riot-police-stop-angry-crowd-from-attacking-roma-community/#sthash.Kuv0ePmF.dpuf
– 23-Year-Old Roma Arrested in Connection with the Stray Bullet that Killed Young Boy. In: Greek Reporter. 10.06.2017. http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/06/10/23-year-old-roma-arrested-in-connection-with-the-stray-bullet-that-killed-young-boy/#sthash.LqtzCJ2D.dpuf
– Menidi residents clash with police, demand crime crackdown. In: Ekathimerini. 12.06.2017. http://www.ekathimerini.com/219192/article/ekathimerini/news/menidi-residents-clash-with-police-demand-crime-crackdown [link-preview url=”http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/06/12/greek-riot-police-stop-angry-crowd-from-attacking-roma-community/#sthash.Kuv0ePmF.dpuf “]
The Hildegard-Langrenne is Germany’s first foundation founded by Roma and Sinti for Roma and Sinti. It wants to further the inclusion of this minority in the education system and as started a new program searching for role models to help Roma and Sinti who want to work in pedagogy.
– Programm “Vorbilder gesucht” fördert Teilhabe am Arbeitsleben. In: Deutschlandfunk. 23.05.2017. http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/mehr-bildungschancen-fuer-sinti-und-roma-programm-vorbilder.680.de.html?dram:article_id=386905 [link-preview url=”http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/mehr-bildungschancen-fuer-sinti-und-roma-programm-vorbilder.680.de.html?dram:article_id=386905″]
A view on a project in Romania that helped fund kindergartens in Romania and managed to have about 1’000 young Rroma properly enrolled in pre-school.
Good, but this is a drop of water on a hot stone. Where is the state whose responsibility it is after all?
– Guest article: Making positive changes for Roma children sustainable. In: EPHA. 15.05.2017. https://epha.org/making-positive-changes-for-roma-children-sustainable/ [link-preview url=”https://epha.org/making-positive-changes-for-roma-children-sustainable/”]
The current laws targeting NGOs and the CEU in Hungary are a danger to the Rroma inclusion in Hungary. Several NGOs working for Rroma, the Roma Education Fund, the European Roma Right Centre, etc. are directly funded by Soros and would need to be labelled “foreign agents” as per the new law. This is not good.
– CEU and NGO crackdown: a double blow for Roma inclusion in Hungary. In: Open Democracy. 05.05.2017. https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/jonathan-lee/ceu-and-ngo-crackdown-double-blow-for-roma-inclusion-in-hungary [link-preview url=”https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/jonathan-lee/ceu-and-ngo-crackdown-double-blow-for-roma-inclusion-in-hungary”]
Yet another case where Kotleba’s party doesn’t quite like culture when it is not “pure” Slovak one… Here, they wanted to close an Art school, mostly for Rroma in the Banska Bystrica region. The ministry of education had to intervene.
– Barbar Kotleba: Kontroverzný župan sa pokúsil zlikvidovať umeleckú školu. Jej žiakmi sú najmä Rómovia. In: Pluska. 06.05.2017. http://www.pluska.sk/plus-7-dni/domov/kotleba-vs-plavcan.html [link-preview url=”http://www.pluska.sk/plus-7-dni/domov/kotleba-vs-plavcan.html”]
The Vienna based association “Romano Centro” has started a project of educational coaches helping young Rroma children to learn.
GOOD!
– Studentische Bildungscoaches für Roma-Kinder. In: Der Standard. 28.04.2017. http://derstandard.at/2000056611851/Studentische-Bildungscoaches-fuer-Roma-Kinder [link-preview url=”http://derstandard.at/2000056611851/Studentische-Bildungscoaches-fuer-Roma-Kinder”]
Parents protested once again in Žilina, in Northern Slovakia. Their protests were directed at the re-distribution of pupils from a school in a mostly Rroma neighbourhood into other schools. In brief, parents do not want Rroma kids in their children classes.
Long way to go …
– Rodičia protestujú proti prerozdeleniu detí zo zrušenej školy, začali spisovať petíciu. In: Žilinak. 23.04.2017. https://www.zilinak.sk/prispevky/6291/rodicia-protestuju-proti-prerozdeleniu-deti-zo-zrusenej-skoly-zacali-spisovat-peticiu [link-preview url=”https://www.zilinak.sk/prispevky/6291/rodicia-protestuju-proti-prerozdeleniu-deti-zo-zrusenej-skoly-zacali-spisovat-peticiu”]
The Slovak politician Matovič wants to solve Roma problems in his country. His OĽANO Movement therefore submitted a bill for the next parliamentary meeting so that Roma children are required to attend pre-school for three years. He added, that if parents did not comply, they would commit a criminal offense. This latter point is maybe not the best idea…
In addition, he said: “80 years ago, Adolf Hitler showed his finger first to the Jews, the Disabled and the Roma stating that they were lowering our standard of living. Today we have two people, Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) and Marián Kotleb (LSNS) who use this rhetoric. They say it’s our problem that we’re sick of it. In fact, Prime Minister Robert Fico has had ten years of government and caused 50,000 other Romani children to grow without adequate education”.
– Matovič chce riešiť problémy Rómov: Ak by sa rodičia zmenám bránili, bol by to trestný čin! In: Pluska. 19.04.2017. http://www.pluska.sk/spravy/z-domova/romovia-povinne-do-skoly-ujme-matovicov-navrh.html [link-preview url=”http://www.pluska.sk/spravy/z-domova/romovia-povinne-do-skoly-ujme-matovicov-navrh.html”]
Protests erupted when it became known that some Rroma children would be allocated to various elementary schools. Non Rroma parents strongly objected and theretened to take their children away.
It illustrates what still needs to be done in that country.
– VIDEO Rómov v našej škole nechceme! Sexu rozumejú lepšie ako my, kričali rodičia. In: Pluska. 01.04.2017. http://www.pluska.sk/regiony/stredne-slovensko/video-romov-nasej-skole-nechceme-rozumeju-sexe-lepsie-ako-my-dospeli-kricali-rodicia.html [link-preview url=”http://www.pluska.sk/regiony/stredne-slovensko/video-romov-nasej-skole-nechceme-rozumeju-sexe-lepsie-ako-my-dospeli-kricali-rodicia.html”]
Apart from the controversy following an interview of the actors of Clavier’s film, not htat many news in France on the Rroma.
First, an article on the impact of the expulsions on school attendance by Rroma children. Clearly, these expulsions do nothing for integration. Then, near Paris, protests by Rroma in Ivry, following their expulsion and the lack of alternative lodgings; the story of the “insertion village” in St. Genis les Ollières near Lyon; some questions on travellers’ sites in the North of France; near Nantes, 120 expulsed Rroma moved to another site; a protest in Fontaine, near Grenoble (where one FN politician suggested one should take the Rroma’s golden teeth); Rroma asking for a reprive in Nice until Easter; and finally, an association defending Rroma in Toulouse.
– La reprise des expulsions menace la scolarisation des enfants roms. In: FR3 Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur. 30.03.2017. http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/bouches-du-rhone/metropole-aix-marseille/marseille/reprise-expulsions-menace-scolarisation-enfants-roms-1224869.html
– Roms d’Ivry : les oubliés du bidonville Truillot attendent toujours un lodgement. In: Le Parisien. 29.03.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/creteil-94000/roms-d-ivry-les-oublies-du-bidonville-truillot-attendent-toujours-un-logement-29-03-2017-6807570.php
– St-Genis-les-Ollières : la vie du village d’insertion. In: FR3 Auvergne Rhône Alpes. 30.03.2017. http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/auvergne-rhone-alpes/rhone/st-genis-ollieres-vie-du-village-insertion-1224473.html
– Comment sont gérées les aires d’accueil pour les gens du voyage ? In: Nord Éclair. 31.03.2017. http://www.nordeclair.fr/48649/article/2017-03-31/comment-sont-gerees-les-aires-d-accueil-pour-les-gens-du-voyage
– Nantes Le campement Rom d’Indre a rejoint Bouguenais. In: Presse Océan. 29.03.2017. http://www.presseocean.fr/actualite/nantes-le-campement-roms-dindre-a-rejoint-bouguenais-29-03-2017-223896
– Près de Nantes, 120 Roms expulsés d’Indre s’installent à Bouguenais. In: Ouest France. 28.03.2017. http://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/nantes-44000/pres-de-nantes-120-roms-expulses-d-indre-s-installent-bouguenais-4888105
– CONSEIL MUNICIPAL TENDU À FONTAINE SUITE AUX PROPOS ANTI-ROMS TENUS PAR UN ÉLU FN. Place Gre’Net. 28.03.2017. http://www.placegrenet.fr/2017/03/28/conseil-municipal-tendu-a-fontaine-suite-aux-propos-anti-roms-tenus-elu-fn/129867
– Les Roms demandent un sursis jusqu’à Pâques. In: Nice Matin. 01.04.2017. http://www.nicematin.com/vie-locale/les-roms-demandent-un-sursis-jusqu-a-paques-126318
– François Piquemal (DAL) : «Toulouse doit rester à ses habitants » In: La Dépèche. 02.04.2017. http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2017/03/31/2547605-francois-piquemal-dal-toulouse-doit-rester-a-ses-habitants.html [link-preview url=”http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/bouches-du-rhone/metropole-aix-marseille/marseille/reprise-expulsions-menace-scolarisation-enfants-roms-1224869.html “]
A long article by a researcher from Amnesty International on the constant discrimination and exclusion of Rroma children in Slovakia. The situation is just simply not improving fast enough.
– EN SLOVAQUIE, LES MAUVAISES NOTES DU PAYS SUR LE SUJET DES ENFANTS ROMS. In: Amnesty International. 24.03.2017. https://www.amnesty.fr/discriminations/actualites/slovaquie-mauvaises-notes-sur-le-sujet-des-enfants-roms [link-preview url=”https://www.amnesty.fr/discriminations/actualites/slovaquie-mauvaises-notes-sur-le-sujet-des-enfants-roms”]
It seems that with the polemics on the Front National politician on gold teeth, the rest of the news is pretty much concentrated in the North of France… Why is a mystery, but clearly one speaks more about Rroma in the North of France than in any other region of the country bar Paris.
More closures in Roubaix, on the Quai de Bordeau; and with one squat being on the list of impeding closures; in Ronchin, where the former school Sainte Thérèse has been closed and is now being sealed to prevent any other arrival; and finally for the North, the arrest of a 14 years old Rroma boy following a theft, and who was recognised by a women who was sexually assaulted, prompting the closure of several camps in Lille.
Other news in France cover the interpellation of Marine Le Pen in the South of France by a Rrom on the affair of the gold teeth; the visit of an “insertion village” in the Isère by the Minister of Housing; and a reportage on children sleeping in the rough in Caen, in Normandie.
– Les Roms du quai de Bordeaux seront-ils expulsés vers le camp des Couteaux? In: La Voix du Nord. 22.03.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/136539/article/2017-03-22/les-roms-du-quai-de-bordeaux-seront-ils-expulses-vers-le-camp-des-couteaux
– Les Roms du quai de Bordeaux seront-ils expulsés vers le camp des Couteaux? In: Nord Éclair. 22.03.2017. http://www.nordeclair.fr/46277/article/2017-03-22/les-roms-du-quai-de-bordeaux-seront-ils-expulses-vers-le-camp-des-couteaux
– Le squat de la rue Nain risque aussi l’évacuation. In: La Voix du Nord. 22.03.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/136537/article/2017-03-22/le-squat-de-la-rue-nain-risque-aussi-l-evacuation
– Loin de la Roumanie, Adrian et Maritza découvrent la première maison de leur vie. In: La Voix du Nord. 23.03.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/136675/article/2017-03-23/loin-de-la-roumanie-adrian-et-maritza-decouvrent-la-premiere-maison-de-leur-vie
– Désamiantage puis demolition. In: La Voix du Nord. 22.03.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/136672/article/2017-03-22/desamiantage-puis-demolition
– Arrêté pour vol ce dimanche, un ado de 14 ans reconnu par une joggeuse agressée en 2016. In: La Voix du Nord. 20.03.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/135671/article/2017-03-20/arrete-pour-vol-ce-dimanche-un-ado-de-14-ans-reconnu-par-une-joggeuse-agressee
– Au nom des Roms, il interpelle Marine Le Pen. In: Nice Matin. 22.03.2017. http://www.nicematin.com/politique/au-nom-des-roms-il-interpelle-marine-le-pen-123503
– EMMANUELLE COSSE AU VILLAGE DU RONDEAU : “ON A BESOIN DE CES LIEUX-LÀ !”
In: Place Grenet. 24.03.2017. http://www.placegrenet.fr/2017/03/24/emmanuelle-cosse-au-village-du-rondeau-on-a-besoin-de-ces-lieux-la/129266
– Chaque nuit à Caen, des enfants dorment à la rue. In: Ouest France. 22.03.2017. http://www.ouest-france.fr/normandie/caen-14000/chaque-nuit-caen-des-enfants-dorment-la-rue-4876378 [link-preview url=”http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/136539/article/2017-03-22/les-roms-du-quai-de-bordeaux-seront-ils-expulses-vers-le-camp-des-couteaux “]
A Rroma educator from Slovenia left her country to get an education in Israel. And she ends up as one of the few Rroma in Slovenia with a university degree.
Good for her, and what does it say about the country? That with equal opportunity, things would work better!
– Romski vzgojitelj iz Prekmurja: Ni mi žal, da sem se odločil za študij v Izraelu. In: RTV Slovenia. 13.03.2017. https://www.rtvslo.si/lokalne-novice/romski-vzgojitelj-iz-prekmurja-ni-mi-zal-da-sem-se-odlocil-za-studij-v-izraelu/417212 [link-preview url=”https://www.rtvslo.si/lokalne-novice/romski-vzgojitelj-iz-prekmurja-ni-mi-zal-da-sem-se-odlocil-za-studij-v-izraelu/417212″]
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