CONFERENCE Roma Rights are Human Rights On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day (10th of December), the Roma trainees from the European Commission and the European Parliament in collaboration with the Stage Committee, are pleased to invite you to the conference “Roma rights are Human Rights” WHEN: Tuesday, 6th of December 2011 from [...]
International Women’s Issues: Romani Women in Romania
Author: Mary Anne Limoncelli, 1 Comment International Women’s Issues: Romani Women in Romania 28/11/2011 – We return to Europe this week in International Women’s Issues. And really, if you’re going to write about the worldwide struggle for women’s rights, and this is a Europe Week in your globe-hopping, you have to write about the Roma. [...]
KDH supports citizens in village of Žehra who want to split from Roma-inhabited part
KDH supports citizens in village of Žehra who want to split from Roma-inhabited part 29/11/2011 – A petition signed by a number of people living in the village of Žehra (Košice Region) has been submitted to parliament to back a legislative initiative to allow municipalities to be divided, representatives of the Nová Žehra civic association [...]
EU must halt discrimination against Roma in Italy
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE EU must halt discrimination against Roma in Italy (Brussels, 29 November 2011) Amnesty International has called on the European Union to take immediate action to ensure Italy halts discrimination against its Romani population and provides redress for all those affected by widespread human rights violations committed under state-of-emergency decrees. The call [...]
Belgrade gets first emergency shelter for victims of human trafficking
Belgrade gets first emergency shelter for victims of human trafficking 27/11/2011 – Minister of Justice Snezana Malovic and Minister of Labour and Social Policy Rasim Ljajic signed a contract under which the Directorate for Management of Seized Property cedes seized property for use to shelters to trafficking victims. Malovic stated that the Ministry of Justice [...]
Volunteers help rebuild homes in Roma community
Volunteers help rebuild homes in Roma community The team of volunteers from Qatar who recently helped Habitat for Humanity carry out building and renovation work in Romania A group of teachers from the American School Doha, the Qatar Academy and the Community College of Qatar recently took a trip to Romania for a week of [...]
Reconsidering Roma in a shifting Europe
Art | 28.11.2011 Reconsidering Roma in a shifting Europe Haunted by the Holocaust A new Berlin exhibition featuring the work of Roma and Sinti artists aims to raise awareness about a segregated people, who continue to face discrimination. “Reconsidering Roma” runs until December 11. A new exhibition at Berlin’s Kunstquartier Bethanien hopes to raise awareness about Europe’s [...]
Canada freezing out Roma
Canada freezing out Roma 27/11/2011 – Roma travelling to Canada as asylum seekers face “serious risks”, head of the National Roma Self-Government Flórián Farkas warned on Tuesday. He said he had been cautioned by the Canadian ambassador to Budapest that asylum-seekers face “prolonged and complicated” procedures. With few chances of their application being successful, families [...]
International Roma Integration through Sport meeting and round table – Plovdiv, Bulgaria
25/11/2011 IRIS PROJECT MEETING AND ROUND TABLE International Roma Integration through Sport is a transnational project fighting traditional and new anti-Roma stereotypes, whose persistence and diffusion are at the roots of discriminatory actions against Roma people. The IRIS partners meeting in Plovdiv, Bulgaria 10-11.11.2011 gathered together 8 partners, ISCA among them, to discuss project progress [...]
Einladung zu einer Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema “Abschiebung der Roma in den Kosovo”
An die Göttinger Öffentlichkeit, an Menschenrechts- und Flüchtlingsorganisationen, Schulen, Gewerkschaften, Kirchen, Behörden, Parteien sowie die Georg-August-Universität EINE VERLORENE GENERATION DER ROMA GfbV-Repräsentant berichtet aus dem Kosovo über die erschütternde Lage der Roma Einladung zu einer Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema “Abschiebung der Roma in den Kosovo”. Göttingen, den 21. November 2011 Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, herzlich [...]
