Factors Affecting Roma Integration in Albania http://www.romadecade.org/roma_integration_albania_2012 This study from the Open Society Foundation for Albania and the Institute for Development Research and Alternatives was completed in June 2012. It provides a picture of the situation of Roma living in Albania and analyzes the root causes of the high rates of social marginalization affecting them.
Call for Application on Local Action Plans on Roma Integration
I/E nderuar Zotëri/ Zonjë, Do të dëshironim të tërhiqnim vëmendjen tuaj në thirrjen për aplikim për 2 (dy) konsulenca, gjithsej 8 (tetë) ekspertë në kuadër të projektit Praktikat më të Mira për Integrimin e Romëve në Ballkanin Perëndimor- një projekt i financuar nga BE-ja, mbështetur nga shtetet pjesëmarrëse të OSBE-së dhe që zbatohet nga ODIHR-i. [...]
United Nations Volunteers: Empowering Roma youth in Albania
Empowering Roma youth in Albania By Fabienne Copin Tirana, 13/08/2012 – In Albania – the country with the highest percentage of youth in Southeast Europe – Roma youth face heavy discrimination. Their exclusion from sports competitions, school events, vocational training and community life often has a negative impact on their self-confidence. As they overcame the [...]
Press announcement for the sequestration and seizure of the means of livelihood of roma people in Tirana
Press announcement for the sequestration and seizure of the means of livelihood of roma people in Tirana date 05.06.2012 United for Child Care and Protection (BKTF) coalition denounces the phenomena of sequestration and seizure of the means of livelihood of Roma people by Tirana Municipal Police. It is more than ten days now that various [...]
Albi. La détresse des Roms albanais
Albi. La détresse des Roms albanais place lapérouse Quarante personnes environ sont agglutinées sur une portion du square Lapérouse. La vie s’organise dans les familles albanaises entre les douches municipales, le restaurant l’Entraide et les demandes d’asile. Le camp improvisé au cœur du jardin Lapérouse s’est un peu vidé. Cinq nouvelles familles ont obtenu une [...]
Capacity Building: Summer school for Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities – 1-8 July 2012 – Durres, Albania
Summer school for Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities This initiative is implemented in the framework of planned activities for implementation of the Kosovo Government Strategy for the integration of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities which will last for a whole week. 43 youngsters aged 16-21 from Gjilan/Gnjilane, Gračanica/Graçanicë… Kosovo Foundation for Open Society-KFOS in cooperation [...]
Hindus ask Albanian Chairmanship of Europe Ministers to highlight Gypsy apartheid issue
Hindus ask Albanian Chairmanship of Europe Ministers to highlight Gypsy apartheid issue 05/06/2012 – Hindus want maiden Albanian Chairmanship (May 23 to November nine) of Council of Europe Committee of Ministers to highlight the issue of about 15-million European Roma (Gypsies), who are facing apartheid conditions. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada [...]
Expulsion of Roma people, Totozani: Citizens should show tolerance
Expulsion of Roma people, Totozani: Citizens should show tolerance Tirana, 09/05/2012 – Ombudsman Igli Totozani asked the inhabitants of the area of Sharra, where the Roma community lives, to show the spirit of tolerance and good cohabitation. He referred to the clashed of the previous day between the inhabitants of this area and the police [...]
Gurali Mejdani, romi më I njohur në Shipëri, zgjidhet zëvëndës president i romëve të botës”
RIZA LAHI “ JU FALEMNDERIT QË MA DËGJUAT DHIMBEJN TIME” Gurali Mejdani, romi më I njohur në Shipëri, zgjidhet zëvëndës president i romëve të botës” “Unë që po flas, jam ajo “putana”… Është një gura fisnike dhe e mbajtur mirë,jo rome, kjo grua që flet, rreth të 60 tave, e cila na trondit për realitetin [...]
“Amaro-Drom” Albania: National Conference – International Day of Roma
On the occasion of 8th April 2012, Union for Development and Integration of Roma Minority in Albania “AMARO-DROM” organized the National Conference “Integration of Roma Minority in Albanian Society and Preservation of its Cultural Identity” with the support of Roma Education Fund and Terre des Hommes Foundation, Albania. This activity was organized in the presence [...]
