Roma Woman Wins Case against Bulgaria at Strasbourg 23/10/2012 – Bulgaria has been found guilty of failing to protect the right to life and of discrimination against a female Roma citizen, who filed a case at the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights. The European Court of Human Rights has determined that Bulgarian authorities failed to [...]
Bulgaria’s Top Cop Urges Municipalities to Boost Roma Employment
Bulgaria’s Top Cop Urges Municipalities to Boost Roma Employment Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has urged Bulgarian municipalities to enhance their efforts on Roma integration. 15/10/2012 – In a Monday interview, as cited by dnevnik.bg, Tsvetanov emphasized that local authorities had to develop EU funded projects for employment for the Roma community for the next programming [...]
“WHO ARE YOU TO STOP ME SPEAKING ROMANI?”
“WHO ARE YOU TO STOP ME SPEAKING ROMANI?” By Grattan Puxon 10/10/2012 – Forbidden to speak his mother-tongue with his wife at a police station, he waved a newspaper in an officer’s face – and had the audacity to address the young lieutenant as boy. “Who are you, police boy, to stop me speaking in [...]
University of Essex news release – Unique new scholarship cements Essex support for Roma rights
8 October 2012 Unique new scholarship cements Essex support for Roma rights A new University of Essex scholarship aimed at protecting and promoting the human rights of the Roma community has accepted its first student. Angel Ivanov arrived at Essex from Bulgaria after winning the Human Rights Centre 30th Anniversary Scholarship for Roma Students. Thought [...]
Workshop “Social inclusion rural areas” took place in Sofia
Workshop “Social inclusion rural areas” took place in Sofia Experts from DG EMPL of the European Commission, deputy-ministers on labor and representatives of the governments of Bulgaria, Macedonia and Romania, representatives of municipal power and Roma NGOs took part in the workshop “Social inclusion in rural areas”. It took place in Sofia on September 27 [...]
Bulgarians Tend to Dislike Roma, Chinese – Study
Bulgarians Tend to Dislike Roma, Chinese – Study 25/09/2012 – Bulgarians seem to dislike the Roma minority and Chinese people, according to a study conducted by Open Society. Even though there are as few as 749 Chinese nationals in Bulgaria according to the 2011 census, Bulgarians seem to have developed strong attitudes towards them, as [...]
Let us stop use the definition “Roma” for poor, criminal and anti-social groups, dear governmental, non-governmental and all other representatives!
Let us stop use the definition “Roma” for poor, criminal and anti-social groups, dear governmental, non-governmental and all other representatives! It was the same this summer. The European society became aware of the fact that France destroy illegal camps inhabited by Bulgarian and Romanian Roma people and offer them to return to their home countries. [...]
Georgieva: Roma Integration Key for Bulgarian Labor Market
Georgieva: Roma Integration Key for Bulgarian Labor Market 21/09/2012 – Bulgaria should integrate its Roma, since it would be an important step for the country’s labor market, Bulgarian EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva. “We need all young people, so that we can meet the needs of the labor market in the future,” she said. The Commissioner [...]
Radio Bulgaria: Opportunities for inclusion of Roma people in the labor market
Opportunities for inclusion of Roma people in the labor market By Milka Dimitrova 13/09/2012 – According to a report of the World Bank, presented recently in Brussels, only 35% of the Roma people in Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Serbia are employed. Unemployment among the female Roma is even higher- 75% in Bulgaria, the [...]
BULGARIA PURSUES EXTRADITION
DeFacto report BULGARIA PURSUES EXTRADITION OF ROMA EDITOR IN UK COURTS By Grattan Puxon 10/09/2012 – Human rights issues concerning the worsening situation of Bulgaria’s large Roma minority are now expected to be aired in the case of a Romani journalist whom Bulgarian prosecutors want to extradite from Britain. Toma Nikolaev Mladenov, one-time parliamentary candidate [...]
