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Street Fight in Essen

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Street Fight in Essen

A street fight in Essen between two Rroma groups – probably from Romania, degenerated into a real street battle involving up to over 1’000 people according to police source. Thses fights continued later on.

This has given opportunity to several papers to equate all Rroma with criminal and to “throw in” an ounce of “criminal Arabs” into the fray to give a view that all migrants are surely criminals and that one needs to get rid to them.

Let’s call this by it’s name: This is POPULISM and RACISM.

 

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Little Smart Girl: More background

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Little Smart Girl: More background

More background to the girl whose IQ beats that of Einstein and Hawkins. Chilling to read that discrimination is ripe in England against Rroma and Travellers.

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Ukraine: Human rights for minorities under threat

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In Crimea and in the Dombass (where the new autonomous region is being carved out), human rights for minorities, for Tatars and Rroma, but also for LGBT and religious minorities are under threat. There is an increased discrimination against them, something we can testify for the Rroma in that region.

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Expulsions and hard rules in Slovakia

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Expulsions and hard rules in Slovakia

The town of Banovce in Slovakia is implementing hard rules against the Rroma minority: If a family breaks public order or housing rules three times, it will be expulsed. These measures are meant to “protect” decent people from the noise and nuisance of the Rroma. In fact, this is an expulsion measure and as such cannot be tolerated.

SHAME.

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Smart Girl

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Smart Girl

A young Rroma girl made it to the headline for having an IQ higher than Einstein and Hawkins. Good for her!

BUT !!!!

Why did all the papers dwell on her origins? Is it so surprising that there can be smart Rroma? All journalists seem somewhat surprised by this.

Nicole Barr, la giovane di 12 anni con il quoziente intellettivo maggiore di Albert Einstein. In: Huffington Post Italian Edition. 10.08.2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2015/08/09/nicole-barr-quoziente-intellettivo_n_7961314.html?ncid=fcbklnkithpmg00000001

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Warning on modern racism

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Warning on modern racism

Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, warned against the modern racism against Rroma while at the commemorations of the Rroma Holocaust. We cannot but agree with him here.

In the article, the term of “Porajmos” is used. This term has often been put in conjunction with the Rroma Holocaust. Actually, it means a sexual rape, and is only understood in some Vlax dialects. This term should not be used at all in this context.

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Hungary’s Future …

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Hungary’s Future …

A clear position to the current xenophobic views of the Hungarian government and on their attitude towards minorities. Hungary must face up to its past and to upcoming realities!

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Far Right Posters in Stockholm’s subway

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Far Right Posters in Stockholm’s subway

A poster campaign by a far right group in the Stockholm’s subway is shocking. It re-iterates the usual stereotypes of forced begging, organised criminality, etc. Outrage was also directed at the subway authorities that allowed these posters to be hung.

SHAME!

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Le Pen and details

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Le Pen and details

A summary of the elder le Pen’s sayings, including his famous analogy between Rroma and birds based on the fact that “voler” in French means both to fly and to steal.

A SHAME!

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Rroma’s plight emphasised on August 2nd

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On the Rroma and Sinti Holocaust Remembrance Day, Europe’s top human right official emphasised the plight faced by many Rroma in Europe to this day with continuing discrimination. This needs to change!

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Interview with Romani Rose

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Interview with Romani Rose

Another interview with Romani Rose, president of the German central council of Sinti and Roma in the context of the celebrations of the 2nd of August on the Rroma and Sinti Holocaust.

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Miskolc: Forced evictions of Rroma continue

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Miskolc: Forced evictions of Rroma continue

In spite of a supreme court ruling and of international criticism, Rroma are still being evicted in Miskolc, Hungary. These are not slums, but actual houses, and Rroma are evicted to make space of a football stadium and parking. They are evicted and not given any alternatives.

A chilling read, and something that has to stop!

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Only half? The others are probably lying …

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A survey in the Czech Republic reveals that half of all interviewed business would not hire Rroma. If you ask us, the other half thought so but did not reply. Racism against Rroma is so widespread and ingrained in that country.

SHAME

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Ozd, Hungary: Far right mayor and Rroma

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Ozd, Hungary: Far right mayor and Rroma

The Jobbik (far right party) mayor of Ozd, in Hungary is taking a tough stance on Rroma, accusing them of, in their large majority, of being destructive. These populist statements, coupled with de-facto slave labour (Közmunca) where a majority of Rroma are forced to toil in 19th century fashion, are not going to resolve the problem of unemployment in the Hungarian countryside. By the way, everyone is out of a job in the countryside. Not only Rroma. And 3 Mio people live under the poverty level, not all Rroma.

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Poking fun – No Comment on Taste

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An article in Watson pokes fun at the media fascination in Switzerland with the Rroma wedding near Zurich. Noting that where does Switzerland goes if Farmers do what they want with their land, but also noting that 20 Minutes said that as the population was on holidays, there were concern about potential thefts, clearly equating Rroma with thieves.

Let’s challenge these idiotic stereotypes!

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Meeting Sinti and Rroma in Munich

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Meeting Sinti and Rroma in Munich

A mix between a theatre performance and a walk through a neighbourhood of Munich aims at showing the general public the Rroma and Sinti from their city and help reduce the existing stereotypes and prejudice.

Interesting!

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Toulouse: Opposition to a new integration village

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Toulouse: Opposition to a new integration village

Local opposition is stiffening against the planned establishment in Toulouse of a second insertion village, a settlement where 32 Rroam families will find place to facilitate their integration.

We hope that the project will go ahead, as the first such village has proven to be a success.

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