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News - The Global Campus of Human Rights has published a new post by Ana Funa, Regional Correspondent for South-East Europe, on Roma Children.
The text analyzes the recent decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), ruling that the …
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News - In most European countries, particularly in eastern Europe, Romani children are overrepresented in institutional care: four in five children in the care institutions of some countries are of Roma origin. In Bulgaria, the Roma comprise less than 10% of the population but they…
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News - The first Digital Learning Laboratory in the Republic of Moldova, dedicated to the Roma community, was launched in Orhei on 8th of December. Anyone who wants to improve one’s computer skills can now do it at “A. Donici” District Public Library, which was provided…
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Multimedia - The Bulgarian online conference "Education and Realization of the Roma Community", organized by the Trust for Social Alternative Foundation, was held on January 12 2021. It was attended by Minister Denitsa Sacheva and Minister Krassimir Valchev. The main conclusions…
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News - Roma children, one of the most deprived communities, are now faced with a halt in their education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the majority of schools in Romania are operating completely online or in a hybrid fashion, children from all backgrounds are encountering…
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News - Community Care reported that a recent project has examined the discrimination and disadvantages of Roma and Gypsy families, and developed resources to change the situation.
According to the article, people are generally not aware of structural racism and…
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News - Prompted by the completion of the second year of the "My Body, My Rights" project of the Bulgarian Family Planning and Sexual Health Association (BFPA), two round-table conferences were held in Yambol ( 24 September 2020) and Montana (28 September 2020).…
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News - According to the recent opinion of the Council of Europe's Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM), Roma minorities in Hungary face structural difficulties in all areas of public life, including…
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Online library - A new report written by Dr Graeme Atherton, the Director of the National Education Opportunities Network, evaluates the higher education participation of Gypsy, Romani and Traveller Communities and how higher education is trying to address this issue. In the past…
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Event - Roma, Europe’s largest minority, have long experienced poor living environments and social, human rights and economic discrimination leading to poor health, shorter life expectancy and greater mortality.
Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated their…
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Multimedia - We are sharing this material by the Bulgarian National Television (BNT), which tells the story of Sylvia and her work with marginalized communities in Bulgaria. The video is in Bulgarian.
Sylvia emphasizes the importance of supporting children from an early age (0 to 5…
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News - "The EU and its member states must combat structural anti-Gypsyism and legislate to ensure that Romani people have equal access to housing, education, healthcare and employment."
The Civil Liberties Committee recently passed a resolution stating that Romani people …
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News - The City Council of Vilnius has recently accepted its new programme for 2020-2023, which aims to reduce the social exclusion of Roma people with a special focus on education, health care and culture. The programme will offer…
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Multimedia - "The lack of adequate nutrition, quality healthcare and prevention services, vaccination, affordable medicines, learning activities, child protection measures, and opportunities for decent housing and safe living influence children’s life trajectories, resulting in…
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News - The National Network for Children Bulgaria (NNC) commented on the demolition of nearly 100 illegal buildings in the Roma neighborhood of Lozenets in Stara Zagora following an order from Mayor Zhivko Todorov. They described the swift solution to the illegal buildings as…
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News - "Romani Street View", film by Olivier Pagani - https://vimeo.com/143235003
”Six families from the same village did the same trip. 3000 km, from Romania to my school. We always imagine them on the roads, but they only talk about the one thing that really…
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Multimedia - The University of Lancashire has published a report on how Roma children are responding to covid-19 in the EU and specifically in Bulgaria. The study was born at a time when the EU is about to publish a post-2020 Roma inclusion…
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News - Reuters reports on the decision of the Supreme Court in Hungary and the developments around the case of unlawfully segregated Roma children.
The case
Classroom situation of ethnic tensions at an elementary school in Gyongyospata, east of…
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Online library - Roma communities in Europe face a heightened risk for death and complications from COVID-19, as their situation marked by racism and poverty has been worsening during the last decade. Every third Roma child lives in a household where someone went to bed hungry at…
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News - The independent media platform for human rights journalism Marginalia.bg reported that the Commission for Protection against Discrimination (CPD) has sentenced the kindergarten "Zhelyazko Popnikolov" in Vidin, Bulgaria, the director of the kindergarten, as well as…
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News - The issue of Roma integration in Bulgaria is generally a topic confined to the territory of the country itself. However, openDemocracy shared an insightful article on the issues surrounding the Bulgarian Roma community, EU citizenship, but no shoes: the Roma of…
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Event - The consecutive monthly discussion meeting of the Know-how Center for Alternative Child Care will be held on 13th February 2020 between 16:00 - 18:00 at the Sofia City Library, 4 Slaveikov Square. The topic of the February discussion will be: "The Place of Social Work…
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Multimedia - The Bulgarian NOVA television shared the story of Galina Ryom-Røjbek, who is a world unicycle champion and through the idea of "social circus" inspires children to believe in themselves. At only 6 days old, Galina was abandoned in a children's home and was adopted…
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News - The National Network for Children Bulgaria reported that there are teachers willing to work with vulnerable students in Bulgaria, but only one teacher from the city of Shumen has been approved by the Ministry of Education under the Motivated Teachers program, which…
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Event - The Know-How Center for Alternative Child Care, NBU, continues to organize monthly seminars and discussion meetings in January 2020. The next meeting will take place on January 16th and will focus on the following topic:
"The Modern Bulgarian School and the Roma community…
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News - The far-right League introduced in the Regional Council of Piedmont a new bill titled Rules on the Regulation of Nomadism and Combatting Abusiveness. The bill was approved on the 8th of November by the Regional Council.
According to Associazione per gli Studi Giuridici sull'…
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News - Since 2009, the Science and Education Ministry of Croatia co-funded preschool education and covered the kindergarten fee for all members of the Roma minority.
However, payment was late for 12 Roma children, and even though the kindergarten knows that it will…
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News - The Roma community is one of the largest minority groups in the EU, with an estimated number of 10 million Roma living in Europe. Helena Dalli, the EU new commissioner for equality, has stated that she will soon visit one of the most discriminated Roma settlements in Europe…
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News - The Seznam Zprávy online magazine reports that the statistics about the nursery, primary and secondary schools in the Czech Republic have to be registered, including qualified estimates of Romani pupils. Data are needed for documents about integration in the Czech Education…
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News - Adriana is 23 years old. She has a job, home, family and friends. However, it took her a long time to get there. She is Roma, born in Italy, to a Serbian mother and Croatian father. All her life she has travelled from one place to another, hoping to be welcome someplace. Her…
