Romani Poet Vlado Oláh (1947-2012) Posted by Stephan Delbos January 30, 2012 Prominent Romani poet and translator Vlado Oláh has died at the age of 64 following a prolonged illness. Oláh was born in Stropkov, East Slovakia, where he later joined the army and studied theology. Following his literary debut with three short stories in [...]
Announcement from Romea.cz
We apologize for the temporary unavailability of news server Romea.cz. We apologize that we cannot now provide reporting to the extent that you are used to, but for the last 14 days the web servers of the ROMEA civic association have faced various kinds of cyber-attacks. The first attack was on the association’s educational website, [...]
Bulgarian Roma Don’t Live on Social Security – Open Society
Bulgarian Roma Don’t Live on Social Security – Open Society 28/01/2012 – Only a small part of Bulgaria’s Roma population lives on social security, according to a survey conducted by Open Society. Contrary to the widespread notion that Bulgarian Roma do not work because they rely on child benefits, just 4.3% of the Roma minority [...]
Easy targets of campaigning – The Slovak Spectator
Easy targets of campaigning Beata Balogová 30/01/2012 – THE CAMPAIGN machines of the parties are now marching across the country, hoping to win the support of anyone still willing to listen to any politician after the waves of disillusionment that have washed over so many Slovaks. The first wave came with the collapse of the [...]
Alert: human traffickers – The Slovak Spectator
Alert: human traffickers Lucia Kobelárová Politics & Society 30/01/2012 – FALLING into a trap set by human traffickers changed his life. Július, a man in his fifties, accepted an opportunity to leave a region of Slovakia with high unemployment to earn some money abroad. Everything seemed to be all right, his future employer even drove [...]
Ireland: Denial of education to Roma child violates human rights
Denial of education to Roma child violates human rights Mon, Jan 30, 2012 D [a minor]-v- Refugee Appeals Tribunal Anor High Court Neutral Citation: IEHC 431. Judgment was given on November 10th, 2011 by Mr Justice Gerard Hogan Judgment The likely denial of access to basic primary education of a Roma child by Serbia violates [...]
ROMALE, KEREN BARO STRAJK!
Romale, aktivistore! Ushten! Ikljoven! Tumare khera hasardile sine? Chudime, paldime san e dizendar, sar amare phrala irasarile e Germanijatar, e Francijatar, vi bichalde palpale ki Romanija, ko Kosovo? Bijando taro angluno Romano Kongreso savo kedisarilo ano London 1971 bersh, o seranda-jekhtato Romano Themutno Dives ikjarel pes akana ko 8 aprili. Shov-var-deshe themende, sakote beshen e [...]
Czech Republic: Another town to introduce Romani police assistants
Another town to introduce Romani police assistants Sokolov, West Bohemia, 26/01/2012 – Romany assistants will help the local police mainly in the communication with people from troublesome localities as of the spring, Sokolov Mayor Zdenek Berka told CTK yesterday. The local police were inspired by the experience in Decin, north Bohemia, where similar assistants have [...]
The Voice of Gypsies: Çingeneyiz.org
The Voice of Gypsies: Çingeneyiz.org Istanbul, 30/01/2012 – Çingeneyiz Movie Team published a new movie prepared to promote our web page. The video named “The Voice of Gypsies: Çingeneyiz.org” introduces activity of Çingeneyiz.org to present problems of Gypsies and our ideas analysing reasons of the problems. The video “The voice of Gypsies: Çingeneyiz.org” is for [...]
Brussels to monitor the implementation of the Roma integration strategy in Bulgaria
Brussels to monitor the implementation of the Roma integration strategy in Bulgaria Sofia, 24/01/2012 – The European Commission would keep a close watch on the application of the National Strategy for Integration of Roma in Bulgaria (2012-2020) in Bulgaria, Philippe Hatt, head of Head of Unit F 5 (Romania, Bulgaria, Malta) in DG Employment, said. [...]
