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International Roma Day: Aladár Horváth on reality TV in Hungary
A leading activist denounces ghettos and the media-created ‘exotic trash’ images of Europe's biggest minority of eight million people, who celebrate their day on 8 April
activism, aladár horváth, roma, discrimination, hungary, budapest
Roma and Hungary’s extreme right: the hunt in Gyöngyöspata
In Hungary, a village of 2, 500 inhabitants outside Budapest embodies tensions between the Roma (gypsy) community and the extreme right. Since March, paramilitary militia have been arriving in Gyöngyöspata to march the town's streets. On top of that, Oszkár Juhász, a member of the extreme right-wing party Jobbik, has been elected as mayor
right wing extremism, violence, jobbik, extremism, human rights, roma
Roma: a stain on the EU’s conscience
Today, despite the benefits that EU accession has brought, Roma remain the most persecuted people in Europe.
Double discrimination: roma women in central and eastern Europe
Romania has recently announced plans to evict roma from the northern town of Baia Mare, in a move which could leave hundreds homeless. The move emphasises the continued urgency of the theme ‘roma women in central and eastern Europe’, discussed during the European women's lobby’s conference in Budapest on 7 April this year. The lobby aims to bring the double discrimination that roma women endure to the attention of European decision-makers. Interview with Brigitte Triems, the lobby's president
right wing extremism, violence, women's rights, ethnic minorities, central and eastern europe, roma minorities
France's 'war on criminality' aside, focus on Parisian Roma in 'social insertion villages'
Four years after their creation in Europe, 'social integration villages' are being presented as a 'Roma paradise'. European associations for minority protection expose some of the difficulties facing the most discriminated community in the EU. Meanwhile, the French government has since planned to dissolve 300 Roma settlements, whilst the UK is seeing its biggest Romany gypsy site, Dale Farm in Essex, bulldozed
integration, housing, suburbs, paris, brussels, ethnic minorities
Of Roma art and Charlie Chaplin
On 7 June the Venice Biennale saw the grand opening of ‘Paradise Lost’, its first Roma Pavilion. Gipsy kitsch, or the artistic emancipation of an oppressed people?
What Place for Roma in the New EU?
European enlargement will push the Roma issue to the fore across the continent. Will the new Union have the strength of will needed to improve the lives of this community?
'Our School' documentary: segregated Roma schools despite EU funds
When directors and producers Mona Nicoară and Miruna Coca-Cozma followed three Roma children in a small Romanian village for four years, their film initially about a success story of integration became one about the realities of ethnic segregation. Interview
minority, integration, gypsy, european union, emir kusturica, racism
Esma Redzepova: 'Roma are cosmopolitan'
A mother of 47, a career spanning 20 albums and 40 years and songs in Serbian, Macedonian and Romany. At the Sin Fronteras festival in France, the Macedonian 'gypsy music queen' brings a bit of Roma culture to a country which is planning to export large numbers of its gypsy population 'back' to Romania and Bulgaria by the end of the month
music, candidate countries, european union, multiculturalism, macedonia, brunch
Gypsy king: 'The EU offers new hope for the Roma'
Florin Cioaba, 'Roma King,' wants to unify the fragmented ethnic gypsy tribes and represent them politically
human rights, roma, men and women, politics, european commission, romania
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