Open letter to Jose Manuel Barosso, President of the European Commission and Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship December 10th In September 2010, Romanian majority MP Silviu Prigoana (PDL) submitted a legislative initiative to change the designation of Roma people in official documents to „tigan”. While the press agency Mediafax reported […]

December 2nd Policy Center for Roma and Minorities organized the debate“Roma ghettoes – between economic migration and criminality” at School 136 in Bucharest. The goal of the debate was to encourage an open discussion on issues like poverty, active inclusion, good governance and changing negative attitudes. Representatives from the embassies of Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Czech […]

Policy Center for Roma and Minorities together with the Romanian Football Federation organized on November 13th, their bi-annual  football competition for children in Bucharest. The football tournament, in which 23 teams with more than 250 children aged between 9 and 11 participated, is a part of the “REACT! Make Europe an equal place for Roma” […]

November 2nd, 2010 On October 30th, Policy Center for Roma and Minorities attended the 6th edition of the Halloween Charity Ball organized by NGO partner Ovidiu Rom, at the Parliament Palace in Bucharest. Members of our organization handed excellence awards to public figures involved in actively promoting equal access to education to all children regardless […]

A human rights group has accused French police of taking DNA samples of Roma as condemnation of France’s crackdown on illegal traveller camps intensifies. French police have taken DNA samples of Roma (Gypsies) as part of a crackdown on illegal traveller camps, a leading human rights organisation has alleged. Jean Claude Vitran of the French […]

The recent expulsions of Roma, also known as Gypsies, from France to their countries of origin, Romania and Bulgaria, reopened a longstanding discussion on the fate of this ethnic minority. Many Europeans view Roma as swindlers, pickpockets, social welfare system abusers, and people living parasitical lives on the shoulders of society. Human rights advocates and […]