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| | Roma people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Like the Jews, they were sentenced to forced labour and imprisonment in concentration camps. | | | Or perhaps the Muslim conquerors of northern India took the Roma as slaves and brought them home, where they became a distinct community; Mahmud of Ghazni reportedly took 500,000 prisoners during a Turkish/Persian invasion of Sindh and Punjab. | | | Bolstering the linguistic evidence for an Indian sub-continental Romani origin is that ABO blood group distribution is also consistent with that found in northern Indian warrior classes. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_(people)
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| | RELIGION AND CULTURE OF THE ROMA (ALSO KNOWN AS GYPSIES, ROM, RROMA, ROMANI, RROMA) |
| | Ian Hancoc, "Roma: Genocide of [sic] in the Holocaust". | | | Since many Roma were blacksmiths, the conspiracy theory expanded to involve the Romani. | | | In effect, the many hundreds of thousands of Roma exterminated during the Holocaust have been killed twice: once by the Nazis using poison gas; and a second time by subsequent generations in the West, who have allowed the memory of the victims to fade into oblivion. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/roma.htm
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| | World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerence |
| | Request that the States and Governments recognize refugee status to the Roma people and draw public policies, programs and adequate actions to assist the Roma who, for political, social, cultural, ethnic, religious and economic reasons are obliged to look for refuge and immigrate to the Americas. | | | To guarantee a large and appropriate participation of Roma delegates from the Americas to the " World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance ". | | | Those who have not yet ratified Convention 169 from 1989 of the International Labor Organization on " Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independant Countries", to do so. |
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http://www.hri.ca/racism/Submitted/Theme/romaquito.shtml
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| | RomNews Network Community @ RomNews.com/de :: Best source on Roma / Gypsies on the Internet |
| | Roma who have migrated from Albania have been particularly targeted.rnrnAmnesty International is seeking assurances from the Greek authorities that no further evictions or demolitions will be carried out until the organization's concerns are resolved, and procedures to safeguard the human rights of Roma of Greek and other nationalities are put in place.rnrn | | | These actions followed President of UEFA Lennart Johannson’s courageous declaration: “We are concerned about racism, particularly in Bulgaria and Romania.”rnrn rnrnThe Romanian Football League lead by Dumitru Dragomir, member of the extremist party Romania Mare and who was investigated for owning an anti-Semitic publication sent to the game the observer Vasile Alexandru. | | | The men aged 24, 21 and 19, have been charged with inflicting bodily harm and support and propaganda of movements aimed at suppressing people's rights and freedoms, Prague police spokeswoman Iva Knolova told i-Dnes. |
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http://romnews.com/community/index.php
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| | Pro-NATO Government Votes to Dissolve Yugoslavia. |
| | All those information are coming from the Roma refugees and some foreign independent journalists are confirming it. | | | Perhaps ITN's trip to Bosnia, supposedly to "investigate claims that concentration camps had been set up" (Strait Times), was planned from the outset as a hunt for footage which could be used to produce such doctored evidence. | | | millions of people were shocked to see photographs of a supposed Bosnian Serb death camp. |
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http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/multiple/slaughter.html
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| | ROMA ROMA |
| | With all of this in mind, it is unsurprising to hear calls for some sort of truth commission on the Bosnian wars. | | | At least that's what some Montegrins are counting on to convince people to vote for independence. | | | And while I don't agree in some of his comments (being myself a firm believer in magic), Bill Maher has got a good deal right. |
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http://romaroma.blogspot.com
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| | STOP THE LYNCHINGS OF ROMA PEOPLE! |
| | We ask you to support Mario Bango, an 18-year-old Roma activist in Slovakia who is facing 12 years in prison for defending his family against a racist assault. | | | Mario and Edo are also avid students of the history of Black and Native American people in the United States, which is so similar to that of the Roma people. | | | In reality Roma people have suffered the most from the economic catastrophe. |
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http://www.iacenter.org/folder05/roma_bango.htm
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| | Roma |
| | This section will connect you with links around the world providing information about human rights violations of Roma people. | | | The Roma of Abania are arguably one of the most persecuted people on earth. | | | It is only with a strong and independant Epirus that our people from all over the region will have a place to call home. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ns/Roma
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| | Flickr: Roma people in Turkey |
| | The approach of the ERRC involves, in particular, strategic litigation, international advocacy, research and policy development, and training of Romani activists. | | | The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is an international public interest law organisation engaging in a range of activities aimed at combating anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Roma. | | | Discussion feeds for Roma people in Turkey Available as RSS 2.0 and Atom |
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http://www.flickr.com/groups/romainturkey
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| | OSCE in BiH > Press & Public Information |
| | OSCE in BiH > Press & Public Information | | | I think that everything would be different if society would treat all people the same way, and respect human rights. | | | The majority of us were employed in state-owned companies before the war, now we have to persuade our people not to start begging on the streets, because we never did that. |
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http://www.oscebih.org/public/?d=6&article=show&id=653
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| | CER Europe's Beggars, Romania's Roma |
| | Roma party leaders also complain about the indifference of the government and their lack of effort in securing the social integration of the Roma minority. | | | According to the Party, Romani people cannot work, even if they want to, because the Romanian employers are reluctant to hire them. | | | They also claim that Romanians are prejudiced, blaming the Roma minority for all the troubles in Romania. |
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http://www.ce-review.org/00/41/dragomir41.html
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| | Notes on the experiences of a Slovak art teacher in a Romany school |
| | Many people from my country go to the third world countries to help people in poverty there. | | | If there were more people like you the Roma people would become different... | | | We have people who live in our country and who need no less help than people in other countries. |
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http://ematusov.soe.udel.edu/jano
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| | Gypsies in Slovakia reached through training of local leaders |
| | I shook his hand and told him, 'Now you are a fellow coworker for the Lord.' After this he went to his desk and pulled out a ledger book. | | | Because he is their elder, the people will listen to him." | | | In the book were 540 names, the names of every Roma in his village. |
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http://www.lcms.org/ca/mission/harvestnews/2001/04/HN_gypsies_Apr01.htm
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| | National Minorities of Finland, The Roma — Virtual Finland |
| | Due to their courage Roma were engaged in the Swedish Army and fought in the Thirty Years War. | | | Their official international co-operation is conducted primarily through the Advisory Board on Roma Affairs, which is actively engaged in the work of the OSCE, the Council of Europe, the United Nations and the European Union. | | | This has to some extent been a burden to them and they continue to suffer from economic and social problems, including marginalisation. |
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http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26474
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| | Some contagious diseases are there thinning to the People in Macedonia. | | | This is not war for their interests, they are suffering a lot and it will make big consequences to them. | | | The Roma organization help them according to their abilities. |
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http://www.romnews.com/a/kosovo6.html
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| | Roma people must play active part in determining their own future, says Council of Europe Deputy Secretary General |
| | The date of the annual International Roma Day (8 April) commemorates the release of Roma people from the Auschwitz concentration camp at the end of World War II. | | | "There are up to 10 million Roma people in Europe, spread across many of the Council of Europe's 45 member states," said Mrs de Boer-Buquicchio. | | | It is also the anniversary of the First International Roma Congress, which took place in London in 1971 and is seen as the beginning of a co-ordinated effort to promote the rights and interests of Roma people at an international level. |
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http://press.coe.int/cp/2003/190a(2003).htm
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| | Photo Essay - Roma |
| | Despite the fact that Romania has the highest percentage of Roma people of any country in the world, there is still a lot of discrimination against us. | | | Most of the people in Ferentari live in dilapidated housing blocks. | | | Three years ago, I began to study social work, because I believe it is important to help people in need. |
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http://www.worldpress.org/photo_essays/roma
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Nations unite to help Roma people |
| | Parallel to this background of deprivation, there are also many cases of open discrimination against gypsies. | | | Other people notice that unemployment is so high in a number of areas that really putting people back into work should be the first priority," he says. | | | Studies of central and south-eastern Europe's Roma populations have often characterised them as having attributes similar to those of the people of many developing countries. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4228681.stm
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| | Indira Ghandi's Address, "I Feel Kinship with the Roma People" |
| | The Indian people support the effort of the Roma in enriching human culture. | | | This page, and those identified by the yellow background and Romani flags were created by and copyright© Peter. | | | For long ears, prejudice and persecution veiled their culture and it could not get the recognition and respect which was its due. |
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http://www.romani.org/rigadr.html
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| | Gypsy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | any member of any nomadic people (the term is sometimes considered derogatory), especially: | | | Travellers found mainly in Great Britain, Ireland and the United States; and | | | the Roma and Sinti, found worldwide but mainly in Europe; |
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http://www.knowledgehunter.info/wiki/Gypsies
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