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Spray-On Stem Cells Heal Burns Fast. No Data -- No Progress: Country Findings | Roma Initiatives | Open Society Foundations. 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. With gaps and unknowns like this, how can policymakers devise effective policies and responsibly allocate resources? Rwgbhltr. Council of Europe | Roma and Travellers | Links. 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.

Over the past year, at least seven Roma have been killed in Hungary, and Roma leaders have counted some 30 Molotov cocktail attacks against Roma homes, often accompanied by sprays of gunfire.[...]In addition to Mr. Koka’s death, there were the slayings of a Roma man and woman, who were shot after their house was set ablaze last November in Nagycsecs, a town about an hour’s drive from Tiszalok in northeastern Hungary. Persecution against Roma, as detailed in just one Amnesty International press release from yesterday, is nothing new. The world was shocked by Italian sunbathers ignoring dead gipsy girls... But now Italy is showing a chilling interest in Roma children. 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.

She looks like any teenager the world over. Wearing a denim skirt, pink designer T-shirt, and with long hair tied back from her face, Samantha is a child who would make any parent proud. Yet just a few days ago, this bubbly 14-year-old found herself taking part in an excercise that would seem unthinkable in a modern, civilised European country. She was ordered to line up at the local community hall near her home in Naples, Italy, and dab her right forefinger in black ink before placing it on a government census form. The bodies of Cristina, 12, and Viola, 11, were left on the sand after they drowned in rough seas as holidaymakers carry on sunbathing nearby Most controversially of all, she was told to state her ethnic background.

Roma protest demands Czech Republic stops growing extremism. ROMBASE - Didactically edited information on Roma. ROMANI Project Manchester. The Patrin Web Journal - Roma (Gypsy) Related Links. The 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. Today Roma are using the Internet to display pride in culture, language and solidarity with other Roma worldwide. The affordability and immediacy of the Internet provides a voice for the Roma, a voice that attempts to educate the public about a misunderstood and much maligned culture. In order to keep Patrin as current as possible our list of links has been shortened to sites we believe are the best on the web. Romanichal family, about 1920, England. Roma (Gypsies) in the Holocaust. Ronald Lee | Romano Kopachi | Home.

Romano Kopachi :: 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. Despite the fact that our Indian origin has now proven beyond question, even today (2009), in the age of the Internet, there is still a widespread and totally erroneous belief that we originated in Egypt!

Recent studies conducted by Indian scholars in India and by Romani and non-Romani scholars in Europe have finally shattered the Egyptian myth and confirmed the origins of the Romani people in India. Each family and clan of the sub-castes had a trade or profession (jati) which was practiced by the men of the family and the clan as a whole. Mahmud Ghazni and The Romani Diaspora The Indians become Roma The Romani Diaspora in Europe Roma Reality vs. Romani.org Home Page. Grattan Puxon's Obituary for Dr. WR Rishi. Excerpts from Roma by WR Rishi. CHILDREN OF NATURE. ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD "ROM" Roma (Gypsy) Origins & History. Indira Ghandi's Address, "I Feel Kinship with the Roma People" Preface to TZIGANE TAROT (Tarot of the Roms) by Tchalai.