Slavery – rroma.org https://rroma.org Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:04:34 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Slavery – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Slavery https://rroma.org/slavery-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slavery-3 Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:04:34 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=33833 The article discusses the historical and contemporary devaluation of Roma lives, highlighting a 1852 advertisement for the sale of Roma slaves in Romania.

It explores the etymology of terms used for Romani people, noting the negative connotations associated with the word “Gypsy” and its implications of being marginalized and dehumanized.

The author reflects on societal attitudes towards Romani people, exemplified by the recent police killing of a young Romani man, emphasizing ongoing discrimination and violence against this community.

]]> Roma Slavery https://rroma.org/roma-slavery-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-slavery-2 Sun, 17 May 2026 15:36:21 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32614 An article stating that Romania is intending to include an optional module in teaching history about the slavey of Roma in the country. Well, it will be optional, and they downplay it as “forced labour”.

Recently the Romanian church denied its involvement in the slavery, even though the church held Roma slaves.

]]> Five centuries https://rroma.org/five-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=five-centuries Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:05:18 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31551 An exhibition in France about the five centuries of slavery of Roma in Romanan lands. A slavery that the Romanian church still denies having been involved in…

]]> Romania, the Church, and Roma Slavery https://rroma.org/romania-the-church-and-roma-slavery-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=romania-the-church-and-roma-slavery-3 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 08:17:53 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=19768 The Romanian Orthodox Church is refusing to apologise for the Roma slavery in Romanian lands, a slavery that lasted until 1862. They were parts of the problems, as there were a whole category of Roma who were slaves of the church.

]]> Romania, the Church, and Roma Slavery https://rroma.org/romania-the-church-and-roma-slavery-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=romania-the-church-and-roma-slavery-2 Sat, 04 Mar 2023 09:35:37 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=19695 The Romanian Orthodox Church should apologize for centuries of Roma slavery. It would be a long overdue symbolic gesture, historians, sociologists and representatives of the Roma community believe.

]]> Romania, the Church, and Roma Slavery https://rroma.org/romania-the-church-and-roma-slavery/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=romania-the-church-and-roma-slavery Fri, 03 Mar 2023 10:25:51 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=19689 Being threatened with a lawsuit by Roma for their involvement in Slavery, the Orthodox Church of Romania denies exclusive responsibility in the enslavement of Roma in Romania.

]]> Romania, the Church, and Slavery https://rroma.org/romania-the-church-and-slavery/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=romania-the-church-and-slavery Thu, 02 Mar 2023 07:57:37 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=19677 A leader of the Romanian Roma community, Dorin Cioaba, is planning to sue the Romanian church for its role in Roma slavery in Romania. This would be a good thing for the church to have to admit their involvement and guilt in the Romanian Roma Slavery.

]]> French Chronicle … https://rroma.org/french-chronicle-199/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=french-chronicle-199 Sun, 23 Oct 2022 08:00:35 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=18383 Pretty usual week in France on Roma. An exhibition on the Romanian slavery of Roma in Nantes; near Paris, Roma are getting support for them to stay in a camp near Bobigny from their neighbours, an exception; also near Paris, a camp is evacuated; in Lyon, Roma finally get water; two camps closed in the South of France; and finally, several Roma were condemned for having defrauded immigration candidates from the East.

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