It's not enough for the Roma to have a degree of institutional participation or to be the beneficiaries of organizations like the Open Society Foundations. They must become a recognized political constituency of rights-bearing citizens.
Posts Tagged “discrimination”
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Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability, Justice, Rights & Equality
Topics: discrimination, inclusion, Roma, segregation, Serbia, Zeljko Jovanovic
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As if the French government hadn't done enough to damage its reputation with respect to its protection of religious and ethnic minorities in recent weeks, the French senate yesterday approved a ban on wearing Islamic face veils anywhere in public.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: discrimination, European Court of Human Rights, France, Helene Irving, integration, Muslims, veil ban, women
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According to a recent survey, more than 99 percent of Nubians in Kenya identify themselves as Kenyan. But the government thinks otherwise.
Posted in: Africa, Justice, Rights & Equality
Topics: citizenship, colonialism, discrimination, equality and citizenship, Kenya, Nubians, Sebastian Kohn, statelessness
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Roma in Italy, burqas in France, minarets in Switzerland: the idea of European citizenship recedes with each affront to equality and solidarity.
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As summer heats up, one group is taking a careful look at Lebanon's private beach clubs, where non-whites are routinely denied admission.
Posted in: Middle East, Rights & Equality
Topics: Ammar Abu Zayyad, discrimination, inequality, Lebanon, racism, video
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Take a closer look at the political, social, and physical landscape of Kyrgyzstan, and keep up to date on latest developments in the crisis.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: Brock Boddie, discrimination, ethnic conflict, Ferghana Valley, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, violence
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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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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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She and other women and men tell their stories of belonging and identity as part of the Open Society Institute’s At Home in Europe Project on the situation of Muslim communities in European Union cities.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: Ari Korpivaara, discrimination, Muslims