National Gypsy Day is officially
celebrated in Brazil on May 24th. It was celebrated for the first time on May
24, 2007, with a special program from the Special Secretariat for Policies to
Promote Racial Equality (Seppir). As part of the program, the gypsy stamp and
seal was launched by the Brazilian Post and Telegraph Companies (ECT), in honor
of the historical fact of the participation of the Roma people in facilitating
communications. The Gypsy Ethnic Rights Booklet was also announced through the
Special Secretariat for Human Rights. The Roma people include the Roma, Sintos
and Calons, groups formed from the diaspora of a nomadic people originally from
northern India, who passed through various regions of the Middle East and
Europe, and later spread to other continents.