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Lithuania to Officially Observe Roma Genocide Remembrance Day

July 04, 2019 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

The Lithuanian Parliament has approved a proposal to include the Roma Genocide Remembrance Day (2 August) to the list of observable special occasions. On 2 August 1944 the Roma concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was destroyed, with all the prison...
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- Lithuania
- genocide
- Roma people
- nazis
Police Squads Attack Roma Neighborhoods in Bulgaria

August 21, 2017 • by Bulgarian Helsinki Committee

Police officers continue to attack and beat people in Roma neighborhoods and villages, says Svetoslav Raykov, the mayor of the town of Kamenar. He said that police officers arrived in his village in the early afternoon one day last week and began to at...
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- Bulgaria
- police
- police abuse
- Roma people
- attacks
500 Roma Have Been Pushed Into the Streets of Rome

May 17, 2016 • by Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights

As a result of a forced eviction, 500 Roma people, including pregnant women, elderly, ill people and children, have been thrown out into the streets of Rome. This move of the local authorities is a clear violation of international law and human rights,...
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Roma Houses Destroyed in Wroclaw Without Notice

February 05, 2016 • by Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights

Sixteen Roma people, all of them citizens of Romania, have made a complaint against Poland to the European Court of Human Rights for having their houses razed in July 2015 by Wroclaw city authorities. There were four houses in the encampment and one sh...
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A Day of Remembrance: Commemorating All Holocaust Victims

January 19, 2016 • by Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights

To commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, the Italian Coalition for Civil Rights and Freedoms (CILD) is organizing two events: the first, hosted together with Associazione 21 Luglio, will focus on the deportation of Roma wom...
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Strong Support for Reform of Rome's Roma Integration Policies

September 11, 2015 • by Corallina Lopez Curzi, Associazione Antigone

A campaign to reform integration policies for refugees and Roma people in Rome – launched by a number of Italian NGOs, including CILD – was recently concluded with great success, finishing with more than 5,000 signatures of support. Because of the supp...
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- Italy
- refugees
- Rome
- Cild
- Associazione 21 luglio
- integration
- Roma people
- Arci
- accogliamoci
- a buon diritto
A Touching Conference on the Roma Holocaust Held in Italian Senate

January 29, 2015 • by Associazione Antigone

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), the Italian Coalition for Civil Rights and Freedoms (CILD) organized a conference in the Italian Senate on the extermination of the Roma people under the Nazis. In addition to his...
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- Italy
- Antigone
- Rome
- Cild
- Holocaust
- Italian Senate
- Roma people
- porajmos