BULGARIA, SOFIA 

Dear friends and colleagues,

Unfortunately, on Sunday (29 July 2012) the 59-years-old Roma victim of the bomb attack which took place a month earlier in the town of Sandanski, died from his injuries in the Military Medical Academy of Sofia, Bulgaria. Malin Iliev was buried in his hometown Sandanski, today (31 July 2012).

Four young men of Bulgarian ethnic origin were arrested by the Police authorities for the bomb attack in Sandanski, all of them belong to a local Nationalistic group. While the leading world news agencies were concerned about the terrorist attack against the Israeli tourists at the Burgas airport, they remained silent regarding the Anti-Roma terrorism in Bulgaria which is escalating after the Katunica pogroms last year.

It is clear that Roma need a Strategy, but Strategy for Survival in a situation of growing Anti-Ziganism in Europe.

Devlesa,

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
СОЕДИНЕТИТЕ АМЕРИКАНСКИ ДРЖАВИ 

By. Ian Hancok

This is the letter I sent to NatGeo a couple of months ago.  It got no response

 National Geographic’s intention to air the program American Gypsies later this month has come as a blow to the entire Romani American population and is a disappointing reflection on a society committed to education that has been an international institution for so many years.  Stimulated by the recent media attention being paid to “Gypsies,” this has all the earmarks of a sensation-for-profit venture at the expense of the people involved.

ROMANIA , BUCHAREST / РОМАНИЈА, БУКУРЕСТ   2010year

Roma people from Macedonia take part in a demonstration to protest against the French government's immigration policy, especially the deportation of the Roma minority, on Sept. 6 in front of the French Embassy in Skopje. (Robert Atanasovski/AFP/Getty Images 

Dozens of Roma rights groups protested in front of the French Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, on Monday holding up banners saying: “Stop Sarkozy, Stop expulsions" and "Roma are European citizens." Similar protests took place across many cities in Europe during the weekend.

Traumatized Roma have condemned the recent expulsions of Roma immigrants from France to Romania and Bulgaria. In July, the French government ordered a crackdown against thousands of Roma living in makeshift camps across France.

French union activists, human rights supporters, and anti-racist organizations started a one-week protest last Saturday, declaring opposition to Sarkozy’s recent plans for a new pension reform and the newly adopted security measures.

MONTENEGRO / CRNA GORA / ЦРНА ГОРА 

Roma refugees in Montenegro lose homes in fire

PREDRAG MILIC, Associated Press

Podgorica, It was the only home Selija Hisenaj knew since she was forced out of war-torn Kosovo 13 years ago, and now it's gone too.

The Rroma People in Europe 

The 30-year-old mother of seven is among hundreds of Roma, or Gypsies, from Kosovo who are living in tents after a fire burned down their settlement on the outskirts of the Montenegrin capital of Podgorica.

Officials said Wednesday that some 850 people lost their belongings in the fire that swept through the refugee barracks in the suburb of Konik a day earlier. No one was injured in Tuesday's fire, but for some it was still too much.

"We should have stayed and burned as well," said Hisenaj, who fled from the Kosovo village of Istok during the 1998-99 war. "I lost everything."

UNITED KINGDOM / BARI BRITANIA / ГОЛЕМА БРИТАНИЈА 

Gypsies and Travellers look for more political clout

New guest blogger, Mike Glover, reports on how the communities are seeking to gain more autonomy over their lives through politics

 A new pressure group that represents the views of Gypsies and the travelling community is hoping to lobby the main political parties at Westminster.

Representatives from a number of existing organisations are getting together to try to mobilise their community to use its votes at local and national elections, above all to protect their way of life.

How EBRD support enabled Belgrade, Serbia to become role model for social inclusion of Roma community

A recycling centre that earned Serbia’s capital Belgrade a top award from the Council of Europe for promoting social inclusion of Roma people was brought into the limelight by the visit of a high-profile international delegation.

The group, headed by the UN’s Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and including the EBRD’s Acting Director for Serbia, Ian Brown, visited the centre that transformed Belgrade into a distinguished role model for addressing the challenges that face the Roma community.

The EBRD has played a key role in placing the issue of Roma people high up on the city’s agenda, when it agreed to finance the roads surrounding Belgrade’s Gazela Bridge, alongside the European Investment Bank, which financed the reconstruction of the crumbling bridge. The project included an important social component aimed at resettling and restoring the livelihoods of 175 Roma families that used to live under the bridge.

http://ebrd-stories.com/how-ebrd-support-enabled-belgrade-to-become-role-model-for-social-inclusion-of-roma-community/

NORWAY  / НОРВЕШКА

Police receive harassment complaints

Police in Norway have received 24 complaints regarding their handling of the homeless Rroma People, with an investigation now being launched into 10 of these.

Helle Gulseth is the leader of the Norwegian Bureau for the Investigation of Police Affairs' department for southern Norway.

She told VG, “We will conduct research regarding the other 14 , but we will not make any decisions until next week”.

Bjønnulv Evenrud, secretary of organisation Folk er folk (People are People) said that the complaints fell under three different conditions.

14 of the complaints related to the theft and removal of assets while the others related to wrongful expulsion and removal.

Mr Evenrud believes that not all of the complaints are targetted at individual police officers. He told VG, “A few things can be easily carried out by the rotten apples, but when you are hiring large vans in the middle of the night, it is coordinated. It is not then the individual police officer, but higher up [in the force.”

The saga of the some 200 Roma People, mostly from Bulgaria and Romania, began at the beginning period of this month after they were asked to leave the camp they had set up around Oslo’s Sofienberg church, seeking refuge from alleged police harassment.

http://theforeigner.no/pages/news-in-brief/police-receive-harassment-complaints/

BULGARIA / БУГАРИЈА 

NGO Advises Sofia Mayor against Demolishing Rroma Ghettos

 The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) has warned Sofia Mayor Yordnka Fandakova to abstain from demolishing Rroma ghettos at random because the move may breach the European Convention on Human Rights.

"Dwellings inhabited by Rroma families are to be treated as their "homes", as provided for in the ECHR, when they have been living there for many years. Their illegal status according to the domestic legislation makes no difference. Forcing the people out of their homes would constitute encroachment on their personal and family life, if they remain homeless," BHC Chair Krasimir Kanev says in an open letter to Fandakova.

ITALY  / ИТАЛИЈА

                  

MONTENEGRO / ЦРНА ГОРА 

PODGORICA - The fire that broke out Tuesday in a refugee camp in the Konik has burned about 30 huts, and the homeless left about 800 people. No one was killed or injured , the origin of the fire was probably negligence.

The place at which there were dilapidated barracks residents of refugee settlements in Vrela Ribnicka, several hours after the great fire, there was only dust and ashes. Literally everything is burned.Rare managed to save only identity documents, and many of the houses before the onslaught of fire just flown in that wherein they slept. On the spot we found the people who put out the remains of the fire, crying and worried faces of children and the apparent inability to get anything done.

HUNGARY ,BUDAPEST  /УНГАРИЈА, БУДУМПЕШТА

ROMA DECADE

Call for Proposals: Civil Society Monitoring of National Roma 

Integration Strategies and Decade Action Plans

2012.07.26

The Decade Secretariat announces call for proposals for civil society coalitions to monitor the implementation of National Roma Integration Strategies and Decade Action Plans.

The Decade of Roma Inclusion Secretariat Foundation announces a call for proposals for civil society coalitions to monitor the implementation of National Roma Integration Strategies and Decade Action Plans in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Spain

http://www.romadecade.org/cfp_civil_society_monitoring_july_2012

Inclusion of Young Roma into the Youth in Action Programme

Training course

6-9 November 2012 | Murska Sobota, Slovenia

The main aim of the training course is to get more organisations working with Roma youth involved in the Youth in Action programme offering them intercultural experience and broaden their horizons.

Suspicious Attack to Körfez Roma Association

TURKEY, ISTANBUL /  ТУРСКА, ИСТАМБУЛ 

Suspicious Attack to Körfez Roma Association

Unidentified person or persons attacked to Körfez Roma Tourism Culture and Art Activities Solidarity Association, which was established in Körfez district of Kocaeli (Marmara region, Turkey), and stole official papers of the association. Press clippings about the association which was hanged to the board was ripped by attackers who also damaged the furnitures in the association center. 

 USA ,NEW YORK

To all of my friend, family and especially to the Rromani community in the Bronx.

Please sign this petition against the new show on National Geographic called American Gypsies. Please Re-post this link on your walls and send invites to your Fb friends. 

We must come together as a community and let the producers, and the network that this show DOES NOT represent all Rroma. 

http://www.causes.com/actions/

Petition to bring Legal Action against the National Geographic TV show "American Gypsies", TLC's "My

www.causes.com

Help us fight against the National Geographic TV show

MACEDONIA / МАКЕДОНИЈА 


EDUCATION FOR YOUNG RROMA PEOPLE IN MACEDONIA 

MACEDONIA ,SKOPJE/ МАКЕДОНИЈА.СКОПЈЕ 

A SUCCESSFUL STEP INTO THE FUTURE.

From 12 th of July 2012, SUMNAL started with implementation of the project A SUCCESSFUL STEP INTO THE FUTURE.

Goals of the project:

- Strengthen the capacity of mutual understanding among children between the ages of 12 and 14 years from different ethnical groups through workshops and sharing knowledge.

- Improve multiethnic living together and understanding among children between the ages of 12 and 14 from different ethnical groups through cultural, sports and social activities as well as learning.

Project description:

The activities will consist a two month activities aimed at offering educational and cross cultural opportunities to the multiethnic youth community in the municipality of Cair. Recently conflicts deriving from different ethnicities have been accumulating in

Skopje. Witnessing this, Sumnal would like to contribute to a positive change, fostering successful living together of children between the ages of 12 and 14.

http://www.sumnal.org/

BOSNA AND HERCEGOVINA /  БОСНА И ХЕРЦЕГОВИНА

The Problem of Begging: Bosnia

A post-conflict country such as Bosnia, which goes through an utterly difficult transition, is extremely convenient for the proliferation of criminal activities. A country with an enormous and complicated state apparatus and a complex legislature has difficulties tackling even the simplest violations of the law. In such countries it is the weak and unprotected that most often suffer.

CZECH  RЕPUBLIC , PRAGUE/ РЕПУБЛИКА ЧЕШКА ,  ПРАГА
   
 ISTORICAL FESTIVAL KHAMORO  IN PRAHA 

USA / САД 

Giving the gadje what they want: NatGeo’s “American Gypsies”

New York, 23.7.2012 16:05, (ROMEA)

Source: The National Geographic

The National Geographic channel is currently running a program called American Outliers which is being promoted as a documentary series about subcultures in the United States. The series features groups like the Amish, the Roma (or Gypsies), religious groups who believe in the imminence of the Apocalypse, etc. The first installment of the nine-episode American Gypsies series aired on Tuesday 17 July and was as disappointingly trashy as its advertising.

HUNGARY  /УНГАРИЈА

Hungarian refugees afraid of burying son here and being deported

PDLaslo02 The body of Laszlo Balogh, 11, lies in the Hamilton General Hospital morgue, until his family can raise enough money to fly him back to Hungary to be buried. He died in a hit-and-run collision near Beamsville, Ont. last Tuesday.

Pawel Dwulit/Toronto Star

A mother’s sobs echoed through a Parkdale church Sunday, as a community gathered to mourn 11-year-old Laszlo Balogh, killed last week in a horrific hit and run crash on Queen Elizabeth Way.

Her grief is only worsened by not being able to lay her son to rest.

The Hungarian Roma family is struggling with the decision of where to bury Laszlo, as they await results of their asylum claim.

“They don’t want to be sent back to Hungary and have the body of their son buried here,” said Gina Csanyi-Robah, director of the Roma Community Centre and organizer of the memorial.

The family has been living in Toronto for a year and a half. Their first asylum hearing was delayed, and relatives have already been rejected. The process could take up to three years, said Csanyi-Robah.

In the meantime, Laszlo’s body remains in the Hamilton General Hospital morgue, until the family can raise enough money to fly him back to Hungary to be buried.

"Training Roma youth leaders and activists for promoting human rights and taking action against discrimination".

The Youth Department of the Council of Europe is launching a CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS for a training course 

"Training Roma youth leaders and activists for promoting human rights and taking action against discrimination".

The residential training seminar will take place in Budapest, 21 - 29 October 2012.

IN THE CITY OF BITOLA ,REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

In the city of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia for the first time at the famous cultural summer festival BITFEST space for promotion of the Rroma culture was given.

The event under the slogan: Culture unite in a front of the wider public promote Rroma culture trough photography and music.

This event was organized by the Center for development of the Rroma community in BItola - BAIRSKA SVETLINA!

RROMA  YOUTH CLUB FROM SHUTO ORIZARI  




Dear Friends,

This is short movie from our activities with the kids from street.

Watch how was the activities with the kids from streets 
We collect cloud and we organize social and health workshop, the activities was volunteer and free our massage be human and change THE THINGA around you . Not only with word with prove that is human for the Rroma.

Big thanks for participation in this activities Gulbin Bajrami Zekir Emran Zejna Bajramova Ekonomistot Bahtijan hemSefer Husein and the Silhan Saitov Ahmet Kamber Pervina IsmailKAmil Mustafa Manuela Manu Demir the all teal of the YOUTH CLUB FROM SHUTKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbonYLKI09s&feature=plcp

16 year old deaf girl  Usnija sait disappeared from Macedonia/Skopje the Rroma community Shuto Orizari  

Where is the 16-year-old Usnija Sait? Her parents searched throughout Sutka. No trace of deaf girl. Now just wait and pray. Usnija  went home last night around 20.30 pm, to see the wedding in her neighborhood. But no longer returned.

- It's wedding last night studying and gone. I searched all over Shutka in all comrades. Gone nowhere - said the father of the Usnija , Sheriff Sait.

The parents even reported last night that her Usnija  is gone. Police told to wait 24 hours, but they say it never happened it does not stay overnight at home. Do not believe Usnija  be married, because a message will have arrived to them. Mother begs for help.

- Loking help from  everyone. Who will see usnija , to answer the telephone or television or the police. To bring her , not  to do anything. She is deaf and speaks - tears appeals Asiba Sait - Mother of the Usnija.

Friends  of the Usnija  that were together at the wedding, can not forgive himself. She returned home earlier, and the Usnija  remained. The family home Sait today collecting all relatives. I hope not to repeat the tragedy several years ago and theu hot to find  finding her  alive. It is the first cousin of Trajan Bekirov boy who drowned in the Vardar, fleeing from police Alfi.

This is the last photo of the lips, filmed in May secondary school tableau. One picture is left in MI. Her relatives hope that they will see their daughter. All those who have information may call the telephone numbers that left parents.


16 bershengiri kashuki  terni Rromani chaj nasvdili ki komuna Shuto Orizari/Skopje

Kote thani I 16 bershengiri Usnija Sait ?

Lakere I dat thaj I daj rodingela ki cello komuna.No na araklela e kashuke cija .Akana samo adzikerene o aberi latara.I Usnija iklili keraldan ko 20:30 ari,te dikhel bijal ki lakiri mahala no na irangapes khere .

O roditelija daja rat gele ki policija te prijavinen la deka nane.No I policija vakhergja lenge te adzikeren 24 arija no roditelija vakherena sine deka nikada na ulo akava te na iranipes khere.Na pakana da oj pranidsalili deka o aberi na alo.I daj zamolilini sarine bashi arka.

Jekh baro apel dzi sarinende koj ka dikhela da javini ko telefoni ili ki televizija ja ki policija te anen la,те  na pipinenla soske  oj theni  kashuki thaj na kherela lafi.I daj vakheri rovindo. .

SERBIA, BELGRADE  /СРБИЈА, БЕЛГРАД

In Belgrade, a New Order for the Roma

The results of an April resettlement of some Roma families are more nuanced than the initial outcry would suggest.

Similarities of the Romani language and Hindi (Prof. Arvind Singhal)

Similarities of the Romani language and Hindi (Prof. Arvind Singhal)

16/07/2012 - Professor Arvind Singhal from University of Texas @ El Paso visited Slovakia in July 2012 already for the second time. He visited several Roma settlements mostly in southern and eastern Slovakia.

Europe’s human rights at risk: Justice Commissioner must act

(Brussels, 18 July 2012) Following the European Commission’s declaration that 2013 will be the year of Europe’s people and their rights, Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding launched an online consultation on the obstacles people face in trying to exercise their rights. Amnesty International has criticised the absence of any reference to violations of key fundamental rights, and has released a summer petition for signature, which aims to press Mrs Reding to strengthen the role of human rights.

“Unless we can enjoy our statutory human rights, we’re also denied access to the very rights Mrs Reding has mentioned”, said Nicolas Beger, Director of Amnesty international’s European Institutions Office. “Despite the EU’s obligation to respect and promote human rights, it’s simply turning a blind eye to violations in EU countries.”

“The problem is a desperate lack of political will-power'', said Beger. “We want the Commission to use its existing powers boldly to tackle today’s defects and make a tangible difference for human rights in Europe.”

NORWAY ,OSLO /НОРВЕШКА , ОСЛО

Improving conditions for the Roma

In the ongoing challenging economic context, inequalities are increasing with many of the disadvantaged in society falling even more behind. Through the EEA and Norway Grants, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway contribute to improving conditions for the Roma and promoting social inclusion across central and southern Europe.

NORWAY ,OSLO /НОРВЕШКА , ОСЛО

Attack on Roma Camp in Oslo with Fireworks and Stones

Four men are arrested for having attacked on Roma camp in Oslo with fireworks and stones on Saturday night.

Photo : Pieter Edelman | Roma Camp Tents

The residents of the camp verified that they have been awakened by people who threw stones down on the camp, writes TV2.

The Roma people had come to the area with mattresses and other equipment to build a camp after they were driven out of the yard of a church in the city center. Neither the municipality, county or the Justice Department intervened the settlement of the camp in Årvoll region of Oslo.

However, the residents of the neighborhood express their concerns about the growing number of Roma people and fear that it will lead to pollution and crime in the neighborhood.

Hancock/Yoors Open Letter to National Geographic

http://societymatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Hancock_Yoors_Roma_letter_to_National_Geographic.pdf

MACEDONIA, KUMANOVO  / МАКЕДОНИЈА , КУМАНОВО


Kumanovo, July 13, 2012 - Kumanovo Bajram Bajramovski (30) is the first member of the Roma ethnic community of this municipality who recently masters of Skopje University "St. Cyril and Methodius" in Skopje.

MACEDONIA, SKOPJE /МАКЕДОНИЈА СКОПЈЕ 


OBUKA BASHI INTRUKTORIJA PALI JEKHTO ARKA

E Francijakiri ambasada ani kooperacija e Lole trušeja ki diz Skopje ano pervazija tari programa bašo vazdibe i minca bašo džanlipe tari Jekhto arka, ikerga obuka bašo 8 Roma instruktorija pali Jekhto arka taro 5-13 Juli, 2012 berš.

8 Roma taro Ternengoro Klubi tari komuna Šuto Orizari pali obuka, lile diploma bašo instruktorija pali Jekhto arka soja si hazri te ikeren obuka pali Jekhto arka.

FLORENCE / ROM - BEATEN BY POLICE STATION SMN AGGRESSION reported to the POLICE in Florence - Where are the HUMAN RIGHTS Administered by the City Mayor Matthew RENZI?

ITALY ,FLORENCE / ИТАЛИЈА , ФИРЕНЦЕ 

FLORENCE / ROM - BEATEN BY POLICE STATION SMN AGGRESSION reported to the POLICE in Florence - Where are the HUMAN RIGHTS Administered by the City Mayor Matthew RENZI?

 Matteo Renzi - Mayor of Florence

"The Avvenure of Pinocchio, the story of a puppet"

Folk Dance and Creative Drama Education for Roma

TURKEY  / ТУРСКА 

Folk Dance and Creative Drama Education for Roma

Roma living in Antalya (Mediterranean region of Turkey) are being trained about folk dance and creative drama in the context of the project named "Vocational Education for Disadvantaged Groups from Local to National" organized by Vocational Education and Small Scall Industry Supporting Foundation, Turkey Tradesmen and Handicraftsmen Confederation, Turkish Employment Agency. Totally 40 Roma between 17 and 40 ages benefit from the vocational course.

CZECH  RЕPUBLIC / РЕПУБЛИКА ЧЕШКА 

Dear colleagues,

I am writing on behalf of the World Roma Festival Khamoro. In 2013 we are organizing the 15th anniversary  year of the festival Khamoro

and we would like to make it as diversed as possible, attracting not only world-famous Roma bands, but also new professional collectives

of Roma music of any kind (Gypsy jazz, Gypsy funk, Gypsy Hip Hop etc.):  

If you wolud like to participace, send to us your promomatrials (CD, DVD, Pictures etc.) via regular post to:

NGO Slovo 21

Francouzská 2

120 00 Praha 2

Czech Republic

We will start the selection of participants in September, so the earlier you send your materials the earlier you will be considered in the selection process.

In case o fany question or more information about the festival, do not hesitate to contact our team.

    

     

    

Best Regards

Michal Miko

Production of the festival

World Roma festival KHAMORO 
Prague 27. 5. - 1. 6. 2013

Promoters: NGO Slovo 21 & Studio Production Saga s.r.o.
Address: Francouzská 2, 120 00 Prague 2

Tel/fax: 00420 222 511 434; 00420 222 518 554

E-mail: festivalkhamoro@gmail.com
www.khamoro.cz

The municipality of Suto Orizari, popular known as silence is the first municipality of Roma in the world. The municipality, which has existed for sixteen years of water heads Roma. The first of these was Nezdet Mustafa, the current minister without departmental and national coordinator for the implementation of the Decade of Roma Inclusion.


According the last census, living in silence hiljadaRoma 21. However, due to problems with generanog with personal documents, it is estimated that this figure is much higher.


Bežet Sejdi, consultant in the municipality said in a silence that lives somewhere around 35 thousand inhabitants. The population is mostly Roma, but also the living and the Albanians, Bosnians, Turks and Macedonians.

SERBIA, NIS / СРБИЈА ,НИШ

URGENT ACTION! ROMANI FAMILIES DENIED THE RIGHT TO WATER

Five Romani families, including children who were forcibly evicted from Belgrade to the Nis, a city in southern Serbia, are being denied water, sanitation and electricity.

Five Romani families, 18 people including children and a pregnant woman, who later gave birth, were resettled to an abandoned warehouse in Daniciceva Street in Nis without access to water, sanitation or electricity. They have been without access to water for more 10 weeks since being forcibly evicted from Belgrade on 26 April. It is
currently summer in Serbia and day-time temperatures are regularly over 35 degrees Celsius.