White House Hangout: Combatting Human Trafficking September 27, 2012 In a Google+ Hangout moderated by Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Joshua DuBois, Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls Tina Tchen, Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs Samantha Power, and leaders from NGO and faith [...]
Tensions rise in France after Roma camp torched
Tensions rise in France after Roma camp torched 29/09/2012 – Advocates for Roma in France called Saturday for international protests to support the ethnic minority, two days after a group of residents in the southern city of Marseille expelled about 50 Roma from their camp and burned the site. The residents blamed the Roma for [...]
Le Conseil National du MRAP interpelle le gouvernement sur la question des manifestations anti-roms
Le Conseil National du MRAP interpelle le gouvernement sur la question des manifestations anti-roms Le Conseil National du MRAP, réuni le 29 septembre 2012 à Paris, condamne avec fermeté des manifestations telles que celle de Cysoing (Nord) hostile à un projet d’installation de familles roms, après les actes scandaleux dont a été victime un groupe [...]
Romanian Roma unhappy with France deal
Romanian Roma unhappy with France deal The Roma are upset over Romanian complicity with what they perceive are French double standards and discrimination. By Paul Ciocoiu for Southeast European Times in Bucharest 29/09/2012 – A new repatriation deal between Romania and France infringes on human rights, Roma groups and NGOs said after the agreement was [...]
Roms “chassés” à Marseille : Gaudin accusé “d’antitsiganisme”
Roms “chassés” à Marseille : Gaudin accusé “d’antitsiganisme” 29 septembre 2012 Les Roms, qui s’étaient installés il y a 4 jours sur ce terrain de vague de Marseille, ont été obligés de fuir sous la menace des riverains. Ces derniers ont ensuite brûlé les restes de leur campement. / Crédits : LCI Le départ de [...]
Halde à la montée de la barbarie xénophobe
Halde à la montée de la barbarie xénophobe A Marseille, des Roms ont été expulsés par des riverains de leur campement de fortune, qui a été ensuite incendié. Même si l?on ne déplore aucun blessé (ce qui reste à confirmer), l?incendie volontaire de ce qui subsistait de ce campement après la fuite dans l?urgence de [...]
Slovakia: The Roma caste system gives discrimination a new look
The Roma caste system gives discrimination a new look By Mária Hušova 28/09/2012 – Property prices have fallen inSlovakia, the way they did in many other EU countries. As a result, some Roma have been selling their flats and buying cheaper houses in villages. In other words, foreign Roma “invaders” are moving in next to [...]
BBC: Vigilantes burn Roma camp in Marseille, France
Vigilantes burn Roma camp in Marseille, France 28/09/2012 – A group of vigilantes have evicted a group of Roma (Gypsies) from a Marseille housing estate and burnt down their camp, French media report. There were no reports of violence when the 35 Roma people were forced out of the city’s Creneaux estate. Furniture and other [...]
Op-Ed: Hollande disappoints on Roma integration
Op-Ed: Hollande disappoints on Roma integration By Raluca Besliu 28/09/2012 – In August-September 2012, the recently elected French government launched a mass expulsion on Romani people from France back to their countries of origin, Romania and Bulgaria. Near Lyon, Paris, Lille and Marseille, Roma camps were dismantled and over 550 Roma were forced to fly [...]
Slovakia: Police ready to maintain order during ‘cleaning’ of Roma settlement
Police ready to maintain order during ‘cleaning’ of Roma settlement 28/09/2012 – Police will use all legal means to maintain order and prevent any crimes from taking place during a so-called ‘cleaning’ operation planned for Saturday by right-wing activists at a Roma settlement in Krásnohorské Podhradie in south-east Slovakia, Police Corps President Tibor Gašpar said [...]
