The midpoint of the Decade of Roma Inclusion is an obvious time for governments to assess how far they have come in honoring their pledge to eliminate discrimination and close the unacceptable gaps between Roma and non-Roma.
Posts Tagged “Roma”
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Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Equality
Topics: Bernard Rorke, Decade of Roma Inclusion, Roma, Roma Initiative
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In this interview, Gelu Duminica of Impreuna discusses his organization's efforts to empower impoverished Roma communities to overcome discrimination in Romania.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: Andy Haupert, antidiscrimination, Roma, Romania
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Roma activists from Bulgaria, Hungary, Kosovo, Serbia, and Romania visited the United States to learn about African-American communities and their struggle for civil rights.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Equality, United States
Topics: Adna Karamehic-Oates, Harlem Children's Zone, Marian Daragiu, Roma, Ruhama Foundation, Zeljko Jovanovic
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Szilvia Varró, a journalist and fellow of the Open Society Institute, talks about the success of the extreme right-wing Jobbik party, and anti-Roma sentiment in Hungary in the wake of a wave of killings.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: anti-Gypsyism, Bernard Rorke, discrimination, Hungary, intolerance, Jobbik party, Roma, Szilvia Varró
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When I was nine years old I realized I was different and did not know why. I had always been a happy child. I had many friends in school. But this all changed in the fifth grade.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: Bulgaria, Drom Dromendar, European Court of Human Rights, Roma, Sofia University, video, Violeta Naydenova
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In the two years since the last EU Roma summit, we have witnessed continued school segregation, a shocking wave of attacks, and electoral gains by anti-Roma far-right extremists. We need a concerted, coherent strategy that finally enables all European citizens to lead their lives with dignity.
Posted in: Education & Youth, Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: Bernard Rorke, discrimination, Roma
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The eventual accession of Western Balkans countries to the European Union holds forth the chance for a brighter future for Roma residents. But right now, their choices are to stay at home and face discrimination and poverty, or migrate in search of a better life.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: Albania, Balkans, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, discrimination, EU, immigration, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Roma, Serbia, Zeljko Jovanovic
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Will Europe’s governments heed a recent court ruling and halt segregated education for Roma and other ethnic minorities?
Posted in: Education & Youth, Europe, Justice
Topics: antidiscrimination, Croatia, EU, James A. Goldston, racism, Roma, segregation
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Back in 1998, more than a year before the outbreak of war in Kosovo, Roma writer and activist Orhan Galjus warned of the perils facing the Roma, caught between the official Serbian and the clandestine Albanian state structures.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: Balkans, Bernard Rorke, IDPs, refugees, Roma, Zeljko Jovanovic
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The commemorations, reflections and ruminations around the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Velvet revolutions overshadowed another November 20th anniversary of profound historical significance: the United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Posted in: Education & Youth, Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: Bernard Rorke, children, Roma