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Roma Identity and Archive Infrastructure

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Roma Identity and Archive Infrastructure

The Roma Identity & Archive Infrastructure was introduced in The Hague as a solution for Roma individuals lacking sufficient documentation to prove their identity and heritage.

The initiative aims to create a reliable population register for Roma, enabling official documentation issuance and assisting government agencies in identifying individuals of Roma descent.

The project seeks to expand globally, providing support to Roma communities and foreign authorities in identity verification and documentation processes.

In our view, this is dangerous, and will not bring much. Having legal documents is the duty of the states, and has nothing to do with Roma. As for the Romani identity, well, how and who will decide?

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Ukraine: Registration

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An article about the current registration drive of Roma who had no identity papers in Transcarpathian Ukraine. According to the article, documentation of Roma remains one of the priority tasks for the Migration Service of the Transcarpathian Region. Often, the necessary procedure is complicated by the fact that the first passport is obtained already after reaching the age of 18 – this is almost every second application of the Roma. In this case, particularly painstaking work with the available documents and a mandatory procedure for identification are required.

One of the side effects, is that many of these Roma can then flee the country.

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