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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
Council of Europe | Roma and Travellers | Links
Dosta! Roma Campaign "Dosta", a Romani word meaning "enough", is an awareness raising campaign which aims at bringing non-Roma closer to Roma citizens. "Dosta" means that we want to stop prejudices and stereotypes not by denouncing them but by breaking them, showing who the Roma really are.
Roma persecution – Antiziganism – intensifies in Europe | Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog
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. 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.
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.
The world was shocked by Italian sunbathers ignoring dead gipsy girls... But now Italy is showing a chilling interest in Roma children | Mail Online
Suzanne Nossel, executive director of Amnesty International USA, told Congress today that the world must respond to the grave situation in Syria, including escalating torture of protesters, and sto...
Roma protest demands Czech Republic stops growing extremism
ROMANI Project Manchester
The site is operated by the Romani Project – a cluster of academic research activities based at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchester .
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
The purpose of this site is not only to present my books, articles and CD, but also to promote the works of other Romani writers and scholars who are writing about Romani culture, identity and politics. Roma have been defined by outsiders for too long. It is time for us to define ourselves. This site does not represent an organization and is not a news site. The Roma Community Centre in Toronto serves refugee, immigrant, native-born and long-established Roma in the Toronto area.
