I am seeking contact with NGOs and Roma working on issues related to informal settlements in urban and peri-urban areas of Macedonia, BiH, Serbia, Montenegro, and/or Croatia. I am specifically interested in progress of stated objectives within their Decade action plans. You can reach me at mhughes2@uno.edu. I look forward to hearing from you!

We are pleased to offer what is probably the largest working reference library of books about Gypsies remaining in private hands – almost 400 items running to about 500 volumes, for sale as a collection. The collection reflects the previous owner’s interest in Asia and is particularly rich in linguistic research, tracing the origins of the Romany language in India through their movements in Eastern Europe, up to the present day in Britain and the United States. Many books concern folklore and history, including a number of foreign language publications, and many of the items are of the utmost rarity, including several that I have never handled before. Many items are association copies, some including letters or interesting inscriptions, and many were formerly owned by important scholars or luminaries in the Gypsy Lore Society, which is itself represented by a complete run of its august journal – often found in parts on the market but rarely complete. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like more information. http://www.gyork.co.uk/

A SOTE-n orvos egyetemi felvételi előkésztőt vezetek szeptembertől, ehhez keresek 15-20 érettsgizett roma fiatalt az egész ország területről, akik orvosok szeretnének lenni, s VISSZA AKARNAK MENNI ORVOSNAK A SAJÁT LAKHELYŰKRE!

A következő emailen várjuk a jelentkezst: buraikatalin@gmail.com 

Az Amaro Trajo „Életünk” Roma Kultúráért Alapítvány a Romani Divat Stúdióval együttműködve kreatív, készségfejlesztő képzést hirdet a roma kultúra és motívumok iránt érdeklődő kézügyességgel rendelkező fiatalok számára.

A képzés gyakorlati beállítottságú, célja, hogy a jelentkező fiatalok olyan divat termékek (ruhák, kiegészítők, ékszerek, használati tárgyak) tervezzenek az alkotóműhelyben a képzés időtartama alatt szakértők iránymutatásával és segítségével, amelyek hagyományos roma mesterségeken, illetve roma motívumokon, színvilágon alapulnak. A képzés egy vizsgamunka elkészítésével zárul.

A képzés része, hogy a fiatalok saját otthonukban, szűkebb, vagy tágabb környezetükben kutatómunkát folytassanak, egy-egy hagyományos roma motívumot, forma- vagy színvilágot magán hordozó tárgynak a képzésen való bemutatásával ötleteket merítsenek az általuk elkészített terv megalkotásához, és ezzel a többi részt vevőt is inspirálják. A képzés keretében lehetőség van a ruhatervezés, ékszertervezés, vagy lakberendezési tárgyak tervezésére irányuló foglalkozások látogatására. Egy tematikus képzés 6 alkalomból áll.

A képzésen elkészült vizsgamunkákat a Romani Divat Stúdió elkészíti, és a legjobb terveket egy nagyszabású divatbemutatón fogjuk felvonultatni ezév őszén, szeptember 21. napján az Iparművészeti Múzeumban. A divatbemutatón emellett bemutatásra kerülnek az Alapítvány által meghirdetett nyilvános pályázatra beérkezett tervek is (www.romanidesign.hu Design Pályázat menüpont).

A képzés helyszíne: 1074 Budapest, Dohány utca 76.

A képzésen való részvétel ingyenes.

A képzésre jelentkezni lehet: a jelentkezési lap elküldésével a kepzes@romanidesign.hu email címre és személyesen a 1072 Budapest, Akácfa utca 20. szám alatti üzletünkben a jelentkezési lap leadásával (a jelentkezési lap letölthető: www.romanidesign.hu  jelentkezési lap menüpont alatt)

The dearth of acivity surrounding education and human rights as they involve the Roma has seemed to greatly suffered due to the current economic climate here in Romania. Any thoughts as how a Ph.D reseracher may address this problem?

2010. május 14-én 13 órakor megalakul az új Magyar Országgyűlés. Egy országgyűlés, mely nemhogy nem „forradalmi”, hanem sokkal inkább retrográd. A Jobbikkal olyan erő került a parlamentbe, mely az európai történelem leggyötrelmesebb, legfájdalmasabb korszakát idézi. Olyan eszmék jelentek meg és kaptak támogatást a legutóbbi demokratikus választáson, melyekkel nem lehet és nem érdemes vitatkozni. Eszmék, melyek haladás helyett visszalépést, épülés helyett rombolást hoznak. Eszmék, melyek valójában sohasem voltak korszerűek.

Mi, demokraták, ebben a helyzetben egyet tehetünk: megmutatjuk, hogy ezen eszmék már rég kimentek a divatból. Megmutatjuk, hogy ezen eszmék és hirdetőik a Haza és Haladás ellen valók. Megmutatjuk, hogy ezen eszméket minden demokrata érzelmű hazafi elutasítja, képviselőit pedig nem hajlandó komolyan venni és igyekszik kívül tartani a politikai divatszalonon. A Méltóságot Mindenkinek Mozgalom a Jobbikot és annak a magyar parlamentbe kerülését a „helyén” kezeli. Nem tiltakozunk, nem demonstrálunk, nem szervezünk politikai tűntetést, mert nem a Jobbikkal van vitánk. Velük nem vitatkozunk, mert még tiltakozással sem kívánjuk politikai jelenlétüket tudomásul venni, elismerni. Nem tesszük, mert a mesékből megtanultuk, hogy az ellenség a mi dühünkből meríti erejét.

Mi nem dühöngünk, nem háborgunk. Nem harcolunk, hanem görbe tükröt állítunk eléjük.

Éppen ezért 2010. május 14-én 13 órára villámakciót szervezünk a Kossuth térre. Ha te is úgy gondolod, ahogy mi, akkor valamilyen számodra kedves (kockás vagy csíkos, kötött vagy horgolt, sárga vagy rózsaszín, bőr vagy papír, cipzáras vagy gombos, szőrme vagy hasított bőr, feliratos vagy jeltelen) mellénytölts magadra és sétálj egyet velünk csendesen, transzparensek nélkül. Üzenjük együtt minden Jobbikos képviselőnek: Mi ismerjük a helyes mértéket, és látjuk, hogy TÚL NAGY A MELLÉNYük. Mi, velük szemben tudjuk, hogy a fekete gárdista egyenruha és a Jobbik már rég KIMENT A DIVATBÓL.

Várunk:

12:40 - Kossuth tér - Szalay utca sarka

12:45 - A 2-es villamos Szalay utcai megállója (a Vágóhíd utca felé közlekedő)

12:50 - A Parlament előtti, Alkotmány utcával szemközti terület

12:55 - Báthory utca - Kossuth tér sarka

13:00 - Vértanúk tere Mellénnyel a mellényúlás ellen!

www.nemazennevemben.eu

www.meltosag.net/  

The UK Association of Gypsy Women would like to renew our appeal to all Gypsy Roma Traveller NGOs and individuals to help us to keep up the pressure on those European Governments who are forcibly returning the Roma community back to Kosovo. Thomas Hammarberg has condemned Governments of those countries that are indulging in this inhumane practice and so should we.

Please, support the Commissioner when he speaks out against such disgraceful practices by European Governments by writing to them. The returnees have no safe place to go some live in disbanded derelict properties without food, money or prospects of work, some have no choice but to return to live on the poisoned Toxic Waste Camps where death is probably the only possibility of their future that is guaranteed. Kosovo cannot be called a ‘Sanctuary’ but rather a return to a life of living hell. Please see a report below sent to UKAGW by a colleague from the Kosovo Medical Emergency Group

A personal report of the founder of the NGO Hope and Aid

I want to just refer to one other incident that had an effect on me, and about which surely someone in the Political arena should care? I and the 'Robin Hood' team were distributing aid to a Roma community in Fushe Kosova, on the outskirts of Pristina. A reasonably well dressed man stepped forward and tried to speak to me with a few words of broken English, and pulled out of his pocket a single sheet of paper. It had an official stamp, and I quickly recognised it as a repatriation paper. The man was born in Kosovo, and he is now 35. He hadn't lived in Kosovo since he was taken to Germany by his parents at the age of 17.

He has now been made to return (forced repatriation) from Norway (he also mentioned Germany) and was very keen to show me where he was living. I agreed to go with him after we finished, and he waited very patiently. When we arrived, we found a house of brick that had been built by his late father in the early 90's, but was never finished. His father died in the 90's. The house had no kitchen or bathroom, indeed nothing other than brick walls, concrete and rubble floors, and a tiled roof; no electricity, windows, or doors, and it has clearly been used by animals in the intervening period. The man has been sleeping on a piece of foam covered by a single blanket, and his smart travel suitcase stood beside it with all his worldly possessions contained therein, (which were actually just a few other clothes).

He has lived in Germany and I think Norway for 18 years. Having become used to western European living standards, it was clear that he had simply no idea how to now live on nothing!

I was shocked, he showed me a photograph of himself taken previously, looking smart and well dressed, and despite his relatively smart clothes, the difference was 'worlds' apart. He was desperate for me to help him get back to Germany where he had been forced to leave his girlfriend and his children, but the best I could offer was to get his message to MTS to properly investigate his circumstances, and to try to raise his plight, and that of so many others who are being forcibly repatriated from Europe.

I have no wish to accuse, or to pass judgment, but I'm told that many thousands of similar repatriations are being made to Kosovo, daily, and weekly, from across the EU, sometimes with promises of being met and looked after at the airport on arrival. Just yesterday Wednesday 14th April, Germany and Kosovo agreed on the return of some 14,000 former refugees, yet the Municipalities and our friends in MTS are overwhelmed and totally unable to cope properly with assistance for all of these 'human beings' who are largely being consigned to an existence on 'nothing'!

Milan, April 15th, 2010

In spite of the recent resolution issued by the European Parliament reasserting the illegality of the camp clearances without alternative lodgings; despite the warning from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights that Roma settlements must be protected and the forced evictions stopped, the Milanese local authorities, undaunted, are still persecuting the Roma and Sinti communities present on its territory. On April 9th, a deployment of 30 local police officers cleared the three settlements in Via Siccoli, Via Guglielmo Pepe and Ponte delle Milizie. More than 100 Roma citizens living in conditions of extreme hardship (among them sick and handicapped people, pregnant women and children) were charged with illegally occupying private land and forced to leave their makeshift shelters despite having nowhere else to go, or being offered any social assistance. The huts the families were living in were bulldozed, while the areas will soon be “secured” to prevent the Roma or homeless returning to the site. While Riccardo De Corato, the deputy-mayor, gives interviews to newspapers and TV channels boasting about the operation that has led to the umpteenth humanitarian crisis, Milan has also adopted repressive measures against the Roma who live in “authorized camps”. Before next summer, in fact, twenty surveillance cameras will be installed over the entrances to the settlements in Via Triboniano, Via Idro, Via Chiesa Rossa and Via Martirano. The cameras will be linked up to police and Carabinieri stations to control the families living in the camp around the clock; families who have already suffered the humiliation of having to adhere to “a sociality pact”, which are special laws very similar to the rules in force in the ghettoes during the Nazi period. The project, initiated by the local authorities, has been approved by the City Police Chief, Gian Valerio Lombardi. The cost of installing these cameras amounts to 479,000 Euros - an astronomical sum, 24,000 Euros per camera ! “With this amount, added to the other 12 million Euros that Milan spends every year on clearing Roma settlements,” say EveryOne Group's co-presidents, Roberto Malini, Matteo Pegoraro and Dario Picciau, “our organization could have funded thirty factories in the “Romasia Project”, and this would have provided a home and work for all the Roma families present in Milan today. Instead, these policies, which are prompted by racial hatred, have led to a huge waste in public money; offered a terrible image to the world of a city that claims to be a European metropolis - and caused a disastrous situation of hardship and marginalization for more than one thousand human beings”.

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Milan, March 25th, 2010

From the fire in Livorno to the murders of Abdul Salam Guibre, the Romanian Ionut Cristian Birzudel, and the Moroccan Yussuf Errahali, there have been many murders committed for racist reasons - murders that are often (when there are no witnesses or surveillance cameras present) reported in the newspapers as “a settling of accounts between immigrants”. If we then consider the number of attacks, attempted murders, rapes and beatings, the numbers grow out of all proportion, placing Italy at the top of the list in the European Union for xenophobic and racist violence. EveryOne Group is carrying out some research into this incredible aspect of Italian society and collaborating on the same delicate topic with important international organisms. It is a difficult investigation which far too often has seen our activists/scholars hit by intimidation and serious forms of institutional repression (this in spite of the fact that we are carrying out our research on behalf, or in collaboration with, the most important international agencies and institutions). In Italy the politicians, authorities and media generally try to prevent the crimes committed against immigrants and Roma being reported as xenophobic crimes - which is what they are. This is because they wish to give the Italian people the impression that the security policies against foreigners are not identifiable with negative phenomena such as racism and xenophobia. As a result the present emergency is not considered the spread of racial hatred, but instead the inborn “anti-sociality” and criminal tendencies of non-Italians. It is no coincidence that the anti-immigrant, anti-Roma policies are put forward as policies for legality, security and against social and urban decay. It is a media strategy which also prevents the news getting out of Italy about the climate of racism that is now present on all levels of society. And this is one of the tasks our group has taken upon itself: to stop a curtain of silence and disinformation falling on the tragedy of racial violence and abuse. As well as the better known cases, it is important to point out that a great number of murders of immigrants are taking place without the culprits ever being brought to justice. We only have to search Google for “immigrant murdered”, “corpse of an immigrant found”, “immigrant’s body found without ID” etc. to realise how widespread this phenomena is and the extent of the political and media censorship of those who want it kept quiet.

If in 2008 25% of the victims of violence in Italy were foreigners (http://ilsecoloxix.ilsole24ore.com/p/italia/2009/12/03/AMFascAD-omicidi_maggior_famiglia.shtml), today the percentage is even higher and very often the media does not even mention the presumed nationality of the murder victims. These are very high numbers which are unequalled in the European Union, because in Italy foreigners make up only 6.7% of the population. In the photo, young Abdul Salam Guibre, known as Abba, victim of racial hatred

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