Racism – rroma.org https://rroma.org Sun, 10 May 2026 15:13:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Racism – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Austria, the Police, and Roma https://rroma.org/austria-the-police-and-roma-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=austria-the-police-and-roma-3 Sun, 10 May 2026 15:13:36 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32532 The Austrian Equal Treatment Commission has intervened following a letter from employees of the Neusiedl am See district police command warning the public about Roma and Sinti. Intended as crime prevention information to combat fraud, the now-deleted text of a Facebook post used “a term perceived as discriminatory regarding the Roma ethnic group,” the ministry stated.

Now the interior Ministry is also investigating.

]]> Austria, the Police, and Roma https://rroma.org/austria-the-police-and-roma-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=austria-the-police-and-roma-2 Sat, 09 May 2026 14:50:47 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32523 Representatives of the Roma community have sharply criticized a letter from the Neusiedl am See district police command. The letter warns of criminal activities by the traveller community. The state police command condemns the wording of the letter and intends to conduct an internal investigation.

]]> Zentralrat on Austria https://rroma.org/zentralrat-on-austria/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zentralrat-on-austria Fri, 08 May 2026 15:40:35 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32508 The Chairman of the German Central Council of Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, pointed out that the National Socialists called on the population in 1933 not to buy from Jews and had police and SS troops march in front of Jewish businesses. He was criticising a letter by the Austrian police of the Burgenland warning the population about Sinti and Roma.

Rose appealed to Interior Minister Karner of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) to initiate disciplinary proceedings against those responsible within the police force. He emphasized that the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities entered into force in Austria in 1998. This obligates the state to counteract all forms of anti-Gypsyism. The Central Council stated that the Europe-wide rise of nationalist forces, which often base their political program on racism and incitement and have now become the strongest political force in Austria, is alarming.

]]> Austria, the Police, and Roma https://rroma.org/austria-the-police-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=austria-the-police-and-roma Fri, 08 May 2026 15:39:29 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32505 The Austrian Equal Treatment Commission criticized a letter issued by the Burgenland police authority in Neusiedl on Friday, in which the police warned the population about Roma and Sinti. The letter, the Commissioner argued, perpetuates historical anti-Roma stereotypes. The letter’s instruction not to accept services from members of this ethnic group could constitute an incitement to discrimination, emphasized Sandra Konstatzky, head of the Equal Treatment Commission.

]]> Magyar Swear-In Ceremony https://rroma.org/magyar-swear-in-ceremony/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magyar-swear-in-ceremony Tue, 05 May 2026 15:47:43 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32474 A defintively outraged view of the upcoming Peter Magyar inauguration on May 9th. The issue, the anthems that will be played. Of course the Hungarian one, the one from the Szeklers (Hungarians from Transylvania), the the European Hymn (not so good), and then the Roma antherm. The article questions the existence of a “Gypsy Anthem”, which they claim is not known in Hungary – well 10% of the population definitively knows it. According to this diatribe, this is controversial as it can fuel “racial division”…

]]> Hungary and Roma https://rroma.org/hungary-and-roma-7/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hungary-and-roma-7 Tue, 05 May 2026 15:46:34 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32471 An interesting blog very much to the point about Hungary and Roma.

]]> Condemned! https://rroma.org/condemned-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=condemned-4 Tue, 05 May 2026 15:45:21 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32468 North Macedonia’s Commission for Prevention & Protection against Discrimination has issued a decision against Councillor Ljube Temelkov, finding that his call for Roma to be “forbidden from voting” constitutes unlawful harassment.

]]> Slovakia, Police, and Roma https://rroma.org/slovakia-police-and-roma-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-police-and-roma-3 Sun, 03 May 2026 14:22:16 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32443 A deaf Rom was locked up in a police detention cell in Slovakia for 48 hours without water and without knowing why, says Tomáš Dunko from the organization Svet ticha, who was then called to the police department to interpret into sign language.

Tomáš Dunko is a deaf Rom who strives to help marginalized communities, especially people with hearing impairments there. He says that not only in the area of ​​criminal or administrative law, there is enormous injustice for hearing-impaired Roma, bordering on human rights violations.

]]> Discrimination in Germany https://rroma.org/discrimination-in-germany/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=discrimination-in-germany Sat, 02 May 2026 15:38:52 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32428 Marcella Herzenberger is the chairwoman of the regional association of German Sinti and Roma in Swabia. In this role, she has been working for years to raise awareness about a very specific form of racism directed against Sinti and Roma. This racism manifests itself in deeply rooted prejudices, discrimination and exclusion, extending to structural disadvantages in education, employment, housing, and everyday life.

]]> Racism in Berlin https://rroma.org/racism-in-berlin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=racism-in-berlin Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:22:06 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32389 Sinti and Roma are increasingly subjected to discrimination. In 2025, the documentation center on anti-Gypsyism run by the Amaro Foro association recorded the highest number of incidents since documentation began: a total of 293 cases – an increase of approximately 19 percent compared to the previous year. According to the association, the actual number of cases is likely even higher.

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