1st European Roma Pride Parade to Be Held October 1 31/08/2011 – The first Roma pride parade in history will take place simultaneously in many European cities on October 1 2011, the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee has announced, citing a declaration sent to it by other NGOs. “A year after France declared its anti-Roma policy, days, [...]
Czech Republic: Exhibition on Roma genocide travels to Třebíč
Czech Republic: Exhibition on Roma genocide travels to Třebíč Třebíč, 31/08/2011 – A unique traveling exhibition from the Museum of Roma Culture in Brno, “Genocide of the Roma during the Second World War”, will be on view until the end of October in Třebíč. Jana Horáková of the Ambrela community center for children and youth, [...]
Dale Farm families could be evicted from midnight tonight
Dale Farm families could be evicted from midnight tonight Wednesday, August 31, 2011 A last ditch effort to stop the eviction at the High Courts has just been turned down. This means that anytime after midnight tonight, Dale Farm could face the bulldozers. Dale Farm residents are defiant, refusing to leave their homes, and supporters [...]
Does Rising Intolerance In Czech Republic Turn Into a Fascism?
” … there is no point in banning the Communist Party now, but 40 “red” years and 20 years of pseudo-democracy may throw the country into the clutches of neo-fascists and neo-Nazis, which would be a disaster … Unfortunately, that is the future of this country. Rising intolerance, which is transforming into fascism thanks to [...]
Roma-Schutzunterkunft in Helsinki geräumt
Roma-Schutzunterkunft in Helsinki geräumt Ein seit Jahren als Not-Unterkunft für insgesamt Hunderte Roma aus Osteuropa dienendes, ehemaliges Sozialzentrum ist am Dienstag früh unter Einsatz von mehreren Dutzend Polizisten in Krawallausrüstung geräumt worden. Dienstag am noch sollten Hauptstadt finnischen der Hafengebiet östlichen im Gebäude dem an Abrissarbeiten Die einzusammeln. Habseligkeiten ihre Zeit, Stunde eine Aktion unangekündigten [...]
Die Welt: Duisburg will integrate the Bulgarian Roma
Die Welt: Duisburg will integrate the Bulgarian Roma Duisburg, 30/08/2011 – Nearly 4,000 Bulgarians and Romanians arrived in the German city of Dusiburg in recent months. Instead of protests the city prepares for integration, the German newspaper Die Welt reported. “These people are Europeans like us and they deserve to be treated properly,” Karl Janssen, Head [...]
Lindsay Gary: I will never again refer to the Roma people as “gypsies”
In Bulgaria I met the most generous, caring, hospitable people of my life. Ironically, they were people that I had always been warned about — the Roma. I learned of the hardships they endure as a minority group in Europe. I learned about how no one would hire them, how schools refused to educate their [...]
Abrahamic Forum Eid Ul Fitr Message
Abrahamic Forum Eid Ul Fitr Message ICCJ Abrahamic Forum greets Muslim partners Rabbi Ehud Bandel; chair Abrahamic Forum 29.08.2011 On behalf of the Abrahamic Forum of the International Council of Christians and Jews we take great pleasure in sending you our hearty greetings for a happy and blessed festival – Eid Mubarak! Eid Ul Fitr [...]
US prosecutor to investigate Kosovo human trafficking accusations
US prosecutor to investigate Kosovo human trafficking accusations Aug 29, 2011 Brussels/Pristina – A US prosecutor was appointed Monday to investigate allegations by a human rights watchdog that Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci led a ‘mafia-like’ crime ring. EULEX, the European Union’s rule of law mission in Kosovo, said in a statement that John Clint [...]
Communiqué du MRAP Rroms de Seine Saint-Denis
Rroms en Seine-Saint-Denis : la Préfecture ne donne pas l’exemple en matière de défense des droits fondamentaux du peuple le plus opprimé d’Europe. Jeudi dernier, la préfecture de Seine-Saint-Denis a fait savoir officieusement qu’elle comptait expulser les familles Rroms installées sur un terrain jouxtant Epinay. La première inquiétude manifestée par les habitants à été celle [...]
