Roma

Czech Roma reclaim Holocaust site, but equality feels distant
After a years-long campaign by Roma activists, a pig farm that stood on a former concentration camp is being removed.
Published On 3 Aug 2022
‘When the bombs fall, they don’t just fall on Roma’
Members of the Roma minority proudly serve in Ukraine’s army, but some fear discrimination when the war ends.
Published On 26 Apr 2022
Ukraine’s Roma refugees recount discrimination en route to safety
Hundreds of Ukraine’s Roma people face uncertain future in Moldova’s capital Chisinau as many are not documented.
Published On 7 Mar 2022
Police killing puts spotlight on anti-Roma racism in Greece
The killing of a Greek Roma youth reignites a firestorm in Greek media and starts a conversation about anti-Roma racism.
Published On 23 Feb 2022

We should not feel the need to co-opt the BLM movement to bring the plight of Roma to the world’s attention.

After police were filmed kneeling on a Roma man’s neck, tensions between the marginalised minority and state have grown.

To convince Roma in Europe to take up the vaccine, governments need to take steps to build trust.

For Roma, Italy’s so-called ‘Nomad Emergency’ never really ended, it just became invisible.

Campaigners welcome move, but some in the community are fearful of discrimination and hesitant to participate.

In 2014, authorities in Geneva fined a woman $563 for begging and arrested her when she was unable to pay.

Residents of what was once the largest Roma settlement in the Baltics were ordered to demolish their homes and leave.

Romanians continue to actively deny the history of Roma enslavement in Romanian lands.

On August 2, 1944, German guards murdered thousands of men, women and children in the camp’s gas chambers.

The coronavirus pandemic exacerbated the ugly, systematic state violence against Romani people.

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