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The year 2010 marks the halfway point of the Decade of Roma Inclusion. It is a logical place for the 12 participating Decade countries to assess their progress to date so they can ensure that their initiatives are on track and are effective, and that conditions for the 4.5 million Roma who live in these countries are improving. By evaluating their efforts, governments would demonstrate their seriousness and commitment to the political pledges they made to their Roma populations at the Decade’s inception in 2005. Yet five years later, the lack of data about Roma communities remains the biggest obstacle to conducting any thorough assessment of how governments are meeting their Decade commitments, despite widespread agreement among participating governments about the crucial need to generate data disaggregated for ethnicity in order to assess and guide policies.
No Data -- No Progress: Country Findings | Roma Initiatives | Open Society Foundations
Roma persecution – Antiziganism – intensifies in Europe
Perhaps the most oppressed people in history, Roma – commonly referred to as Gypsies – have been persecuted since they arrived in Europe in 1300 C.E. The New York Times reports that institutionalized and societal prejudice against Roma is enflaming violence in Europe: [...] Prejudice against Roma — widely known as Gypsies and long among Europe’s most oppressed minority groups — has swelled into a wave of violence.
By Sue Reid UPDATED: 01:13 GMT, 26 July 2008 It was the week's most shocking picture: gipsy girls dead on a beach ignored by sunbathers... Now there is more chilling evidence of how Italy's brutal crackdown on the Roma has sick echoes of the country's fascist past.
The world was shocked by Italian sunbathers ignoring dead gipsy girls... But now Italy is showing a chilling interest in Roma children
The Patrin Web Journal - Roma (Gypsy) Related Links
T he following links represent political, social and cultural web sites from around the world. Patrin supports the role of Roma organisations in furthering the political, legal and civil rights of all Roma. Patrin also supports efforts to improve employment, education, and health care availability.R oma were the only other population besides the Jews who were targeted for extermination on racial grounds in the Final Solution. Determining the percentage or number of Roma who died in the Holocaust is not easy. Much of the Nazi documentation still remains to be analyzed, and many murders were not recorded, since they took place in the fields and forests where Roma were apprehended. The following links provide documentation of Roma persecution.
Roma (Gypsies) in the Holocaust
Romano Kopachi :: A New Look at Our Romani Origins and Diaspora – by Ronald Lee :: http://kopachi.com/articles
A NEW LOOK AT OUR ROMANI ORIGINS AND DIASPORA By Ronald Lee © Ronald Lee, 2009, all rights reserved ———————————————————————————————- “Until lions have historians, Stories of the hunt Shall always glorify the hunters.’’ – African proverb The Mystery People and the Pseudo-Egyptians For almost five-hundred years after we Romani people appeared in Europe in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, Europeans were asking where we had come from. By then, we ourselves had forgotten our origins in North-Central India although in 1422 some Romani newcomers did tell Italians in Forli, Italy, who asked them where they had come from, that their original homeland was in India. ( Muratori , 1731, Vol X1X: 890) This remained buried in the archives until recently ( Informaciako Lil 7-9, 1992).