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News Eastern Europe Slovenia

A Slovenian Settlement

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The formal inauguration to a small Roma settlement in Slovenia says a lot about the living conditions of Roma in the country.

At the opening, Nataša Horvat, who is the representative of the Roma community in the municipal council of the Municipality of Lendava, expressed her enthusiasm for the positive changes in the settlement and in the Roma community. She emphasized the development of the settlement from its beginnings in 1961 until today, with at last a modern and safe infrastructure.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Roma Settlements

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Osada, the Slovak name of Roma settlements, are slowly changing. Here the story of new hairdresser in a new house in the settlement in Medzev, Eastern Slovakia.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Roma Settlements

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Housing, water, sewerage, but also education and work are among the biggest problems of the marginalized Roma community. However, improving these issues is often slowed by the problem of land ownership, which is very often unresolved in such settlements.

News Eastern Europe Poland

Reportage in a Settlement

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A TV crew visited a controversial Roma settlement in Koszary, near Limanowa. The case of these Roma has filled many articles in the Polish press.

During the broadcast of the report, Roma children said in front of the camera that they were called names, ridiculed, attacked and beaten – but the young boys did not present any specific situations. Their parents told that they had no other choice than to burn refuse to heat, something what neighbours hav been complaining a lot.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Trebišov: At Last

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More than a year after a fire ravaged a Roma settlement in Trebišov, Slovakia, a more suitable housing has been provided by a NGO. Until then, many of the Roma had to live in tents, even through the winter.

The state is pretty much absent here.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Roma Settlement

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The story of a Roma settlement in Slovakia where people used to live in wooden huts with earthen floors. Now, ten years later,  they live in brick houses, and are beter off, but still no one there has completed high school.

News Eastern Europe Serbia

Serbia: The Opovo Settlement

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The new settlement in Opovo is one of the more organized of the Vojvodina region, having been built in 2019 by a European Union project with the aim of integrating the Roma population into the local community. It was visited by representatives of the National Council of the Roma National Minority and the province on the occasion of the “Children’s Games”.

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