Exclusion – rroma.org https://rroma.org Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:10:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Exclusion – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Roma in Portugal https://rroma.org/roma-in-portugal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-in-portugal Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:10:25 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=33157 Portugal lacks a new national strategy for the integration of Roma communities, endangering the survival of many organizations due to funding shortages.

Roma representatives criticize government delays and the impact on local projects, particularly in education and community mediation. The absence of a strategy has led to the closure of several associations, highlighting the need for stronger state support and engagement with Roma organizations.

]]> Serbian Social Cards https://rroma.org/serbian-social-cards/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=serbian-social-cards Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:05:02 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=33142 The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights highlighted concerns over Serbia’s social protection system and the implementation of the Social Card Law, which has led to over 60,000 citizens losing social assistance since its introduction in 2022.

The report emphasizes the negative impact on vulnerable groups, particularly the Roma community, whose informal incomes are misclassified, resulting in loss of benefits despite insufficient earnings for basic living.

Recommendations include improving worker protection mechanisms, enhancing transparency in digital systems, and ensuring that public services do not discriminate against the most vulnerable citizens.

]]> Roma and Slovenes https://rroma.org/roma-and-slovenes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-and-slovenes Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:48:23 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26628 Relations between the Ribnica Roma, the municipal administration and the majority population have long been at a standstill, the state must put an end to this. On March 2, 2014, 16 Roma men and women from two Slovenian Roma settlements filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights for violation of the right to water. These are the settlements of Dobruška vas in Škocjan and Gori. They lost their case in 2022. But the situation has not improved at all…

]]> House without an Exit https://rroma.org/house-without-an-exit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=house-without-an-exit Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:24:38 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25942 Tomáš Hlaváček, director of the film House Without an Exit explains that his documentary shows that since the state and its institutions leaves the Roma to fend off by themselves, they rely on the family. But this is not always an advantage, as it keeps the families in a spiral of exclusion and poverty.

 

]]> Slovakia, Roma, and Poor Health https://rroma.org/slovakia-roma-and-poor-health/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-roma-and-poor-health Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:06:26 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25829 Anthropologist Andrej Belák from the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) has published a scientific study in one of the most prestigious social science journals in the world. It is focused on the causes of the poor health status of excluded Roma in Slovakia.

The published work is mainly based on a series of in-depth field research carried out between 2004 and 2015. “These mapped in detail the daily practice of the excluded Roma themselves and then various professionals of the health system who worked with the excluded Roma on a daily basis,” the SAV spokeswoman explained. According to her, the work brings to the fore and vividly summarizes deeper connections that have been little known in the international context until now.

Well, you do not really need a PhD to understand that exclusion and poverty are not good for one’s health…

]]> Slovenia and Roma https://rroma.org/slovenia-and-roma-42/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovenia-and-roma-42 Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:27:05 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25552 Anti-Roma rhetoric is on the rise in Slovenia, echoed by the media and fueled by politicians of all persuasions, following several incidents involving members of the community in the south-east of the country. While Roma are the most discriminated against minority in Slovenia, there are solutions to improve integration. An interview with a Roma activist.

]]> More on Travellers in Switzerland https://rroma.org/more-on-travellers-in-switzerland/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-on-travellers-in-switzerland Mon, 25 Jul 2016 07:39:22 +0000 http://rroma.org/?p=6215 Whereas the other travellers in Bern, as we learnt, Sinti, created problems (see yesterday’s post), these Rroma in Aargau left the land clean and paid for their stay. It is therefore all the more of a mystery why the peasant will not want to rend another time to Travellers…

Bad.

]]> Travellers in Switzerland https://rroma.org/travellers-in-switzerland-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=travellers-in-switzerland-3 Mon, 25 Jul 2016 07:38:29 +0000 http://rroma.org/?p=6212 Another article about 80 caravans and 200 travellers. Issue is that there are not enough toilets. Only 2 for 200 people. A bit short. And they brought them themselves.

]]> French Chronicle https://rroma.org/french-chronicle-28/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=french-chronicle-28 Thu, 09 Jun 2016 06:29:58 +0000 http://rroma.org/?p=5632 After a pause due to Easter (not in France – on the redaction side), a further French chronicle. Actually very quiet, as this is the season where expulsions are the norm.

In Annet sur Marne, judges ordered the expulsion of the Rroma camp; in Roubaix, the decision of the judges is still reported, and the future of that particular camp is still in the cards; in Lens, a collective supporting Rroma is asking for financial support; a manifestation for supporting Rroma attracted less than 50 people, BAD; a young Rrom was electrocuted while playing in a squat; in Saint Denis, north of Paris, residents protested against illegal vendors and Rroma by organizing a market on the street; and finally, a positive note in the North of France on social lodgins and so-called insertions villages.

]]> Italy: Reality and Coverage https://rroma.org/italy-reality-coverage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=italy-reality-coverage Thu, 09 Jun 2016 06:21:03 +0000 http://rroma.org/?p=5608 An article on Rroma in Italy. Well done, it states the correct facts, and the reality. According to the article, there are approximately “180,000 Roma and Sinti […] currently living in our country. In fact, most of them live, work and lead a normal life while, according to the association July 21, about 35,000 live in emergency housing, and nearly 20,000 of them in formal settlements. This is basically 0.06% on the Italian population (tiny percentage compared to the media coverage)”

A good Read!

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