December 2011
editing articles for the gadje.
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International Women’s Issues: Romani Women in Romania
aj-rromale:
Mary Anne Limoncelli
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.
Who are the Roma? If you...
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stfugadje:
A few people have reacted to this blog in ways which make me feel like I should clarify what the word “gadje” means, what it means to me, and the context in which I use it.
Strictly speaking, “gadje” means someone who is non-Rroma, and not one of the Walking People in general - an outsider. There are Rroma languages which feature the word gadje in specifically this capacity - many...
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Hungarians pay the piper →
Michael Roddy
Members of a Roma family are seen in their room in a building where they live with 22 other people in Inke, south west of Budapest.
INKE, Hungary — In the past week Hungary’s bonds have become junk, the forint has slumped to a near-record low against the euro and the OECD has said the economy is headed for recession next year.
Yet unlike other European capitals where economic decline...
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International Women’s Issues: Romani Women in... →
Mary Anne Limoncelli
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.
Who are the Roma? If you wanted to be insulting, you could call them gypsies. That term is generally considered offensive, though many people do...
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Volunteers help rebuild homes in Roma community →
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 volunteer work for the Habitat for Humanity. ASD teacher Rebeka Fergusson-Lutz gathered the group of educators to help build and renovate houses for a struggling Roma community in Baltesti.
They were joined by Qatari ASD graduate Reem al-Wohaibi,...
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Canada freezing out Roma →
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 often found themselves in a worse...
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Reconsidering Roma in a shifting Europe →
Louise Osborn, edited by Zulkifar Abbany
A new exhibition at Berlin’s Kunstquartier Bethanien hopes to raise awareness about Europe’s 12 million strong Roma and Sinti population - who despite widespread perceptions about what it is to be a “gypsy” remain a segregated and unrecognized people.
The show “Reconsidering Roma - Aspects of Roma and Sinti Life in...
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UK: Romani high school students were misdiagnosed... →
The British organization Equality, with the support of the Roma Education Fund, has produced a unique study of migrant Romani children in British schools. The study followed Romani children in the UK who had previously been assigned by the Czech or Slovak school systems to “special schools”. After moving to the UK, those same children, thanks to support services, are now completing...
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11 ROMA FAMILIES LEFT WITHOUT SHELTER IN FIRE IN... →
Belgrade, 28th November 2011 – In late night Saturday on Sunday on 27th November occurred fire in Roma settlement on Autokomanda in Zvecanska street. On that occasion burnt 12 flats, and therefore 11 families, amongst whom were numerous children and elder people, were left without shelter and all their belongings (bed-clothes, furniture, clothing, technic…).
In morning hours, on the scene arrived...
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Interview with former Czech Human Rights... →
The Czech journal A2 recently published a very interesting interview with leading Czech human rights figure Petr Uhl, conducted by journalists Filip Pospíšil and Lukáš Rychetský. Conducted in honor of Uhl’s 70th birthday, the interview sums up the last 22 years of his life. Below is the part of the interview that touches on Romani people and the recent events in Šluknov district. You can...
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mukhel davlesa
golden-zephyr:
da keriben sy mi draugustyr… kidy jou sala, sare manuša šunena les. les vašty te pačas, leski lava sy pares.
šun so me tuke rakira.
jekh phuri dikhljas mandar kana symas cyknoro, či prinžanau aver romen. rudiu tu te na xoljaos pe mande. sa i lumja fal pe ke gyndil pe numaj late.
Te avel tumenge lažav.
či žanau khanči so te kêrêv.
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Results of Roma inclusion programme fail to... →
Svetla Dimitrova for Southeast European Times
Back in February 2005, eight Central and East European nations launched an ambitious ten-year initiative to improve the status of Roma.
“The Roma inclusion programme was a very good initiative. However, it didn’t work in any of the participating countries,” Ilona Tomova, senior research associate at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,...
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Message from Romane Romnja for 25 November 2011 –... →
Cologne, 24.11.2011; Romane Romnja – Indira Lösbrock and Gordana Herold.
Message from Romane Romnja for 25 November 2011 – International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Violence against women and girls takes many forms and is widespread throughout the globe. The right of women and girls to live free of violence is inalienable and fundamental. It is enshrined in international...
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Roma population in Bulgaria has increased twice... →
Picture: FOCUS News Agency
Sofia. The Roma population in Bulgaria has increased twice over the last 65 years, shows the statistical data of the Bulgarian Academy of Science (BAS) for the time period 1946-2011, FOCUS News Agency reporter informs.
In 1964 the Bulgarians of Roma origin made 2.42% of the population; the citizens of Turkish origin – 9.64%, while the Bulgarians – 83%.
After the census...
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Around 150 Roma expelled from France to Romania →
Picture: AFP
Lyon. Around 150 Roma citizens were expelled from the French city of Lyon to Bucharest, French news edition Lyon info informs.
The Roma are sent back to Romania in the frames of a programme for voluntary return of foreigners illegally staying in France. The expelled are compensated with EUR 300 for adults and EUR 100 for kids.
Despite that they have agreed to return home some of the...
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aj-rromale:
Elvira and Me
Eliva and Me is about one woman’s two lives. Her family in Romania call her Elvira but in England she is known by the name on her passport, Ramona. It is a collaboration, with photography by Ciara Leeming and words by Ramona Constantin.
Elvira hai Me si vorba a dac îc ciuvli tàrni chai càlàtoril dai România andâi Anglia hai parpale dinou. I...
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Elvira and Me →
Eliva and Me is about one woman’s two lives. Her family in Romania call her Elvira but in England she is known by the name on her passport, Ramona. It is a collaboration, with photography by Ciara Leeming and words by Ramona Constantin.
Elvira hai Me si vorba a dac îc ciuvli tàrni chai càlàtoril dai România andâi Anglia hai parpale dinou. I colabularea hai i poze catai Ciara Leeming hai...
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Roma kids, roma parents: school for all! →
Safia, social worker in a Host Center for Asylum Seekers
In my country of origin, in Bosnia, there were many Roma people, those who are actually coming to France now. At that time they were not well considered by our people, now it’s even worse. I still remember those Roma villages. They were sedentary people, they had their own houses and they were living together. In each village it was very...
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There is no alternative to Roma integration →
Photo: Krum Stoev; The best part of Romany children beg in the streets instead of going to school.
19 November, 2011
There is no alternative to the integration of Romany people for economic, moral, value-related, humanitarian or political reasons, said Tomislav Donchev, Minister charged of EU funds management at a discussion of the National Strategy for...
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ERRC Urges End to Anti-Roma Activity Under... →
Rome, Budapest, 24 November 2011: The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) today sent a letter to authorities in Italy, welcoming a judgment from the national Council of State that the State of Emergency, in effect in parts of Italy since May 2008, is unlawful. The letter urges the immediate end to all anti-Roma activities organised as part of the State of Emergency.
The Council of State ruled that...
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Residents of Podsadok don’t agree with help for... →
Stará Ľubovňa, 23 November (RPA) - Residents of the town district of Podsadok in Stará Ľubovňa have sent town leaders an open letter in which they express indignation at the town’s activities in regard to resolving the situation of the local Roma population. The letter is in response to a decision by the town to purchase a house in Podsadok which is to serve as a school for local Roma. The town...
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Amnesty International Fights Forced Evictions of... →
Jo Harrington
Photo: Roma Lady in Serbia - Dobri Dejano
Illegal evictions and other human rights violations against Roma, gypsies and other travellers in Serbia have been made a priority by Amnesty International.
Human rights organisation Amnesty International has mobilised its three million plus members in the struggle to protect Roma communities in Belgrade. On November 23rd 2011, Amnesty...
