Organizations
European Committee on Romani Emancipation, European Roma Rights Center, Exchange House Travellers Service, Helsinki Citizens' Assembly, Roma Section, Cz, Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance, OSI Roma Participation Program, Pavee Point, Roma Community and Advocacy Center, Romani Union Australia, The Rroma Foundation, Switzerland
500 Years of Rejection
By Puri Ruíz. From European Culture Digest reports how governments and local authorities may be partly responsible for the early deaths of a people that contributes hugely to Spanish society.
Abuses Against Serbs And Roma In The New Kosovo
From Human Rights Watch, August 1999.
An appeal on behalf of the Kosovar Roma community
From the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly.
Antigypsyism in the Political Culture of the Feder
by Gilad Margalit, from the SICSA, Israel.
Bonafide or Bogus?: Roma Asylum Seekers from the C
By Helen O'Nions, 1999.
Cambridgeshire Travellers Review
Identification of key issues from the Cambridgeshire Travellers Research Project, United Kingdom.
Czech Government Tries to Infiltrate the Internati
http://www.icare.to/archivemay2000.html#CZECH GOVERNMENT TRIES TO INFILTRATE THE INTERNATIONAL ROMAN
From the Internet Center for Anti-Racism Europe.
Czech Republic: A Deep Trauma
The present frictions in Czech-Roma relations have complex and deep-seated causes, from the Central Europe Review.
Gamaliel Talks Explore Romani Experience
From the University of Wisconsin.
Gypsies: Tramps and Thieves?
Conditions in Bulgaria, by Tom Giles, from the Spring 1995 issue of SLANT.
Hadareni Case Indictment
An account of the widely publicised 1993 case of violence against Roma in Romania.
Hungary: Update on Issues Affecting Roma
Analysis by Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
Initiatives Concerning Gypsies
From www.radicalparty.org.
Irish Travellers Fighting Back
From the Spunk Library.
Keep the Nazis Out of Dover!
Anti-facist action in Dover, England protesting National Front activities against Roma asylum seekers in the UK.
Last Stop Hru?ov: The Search for a Ghetto
Article by Hana Cápová relating the plight of Romani families relocated to the Na Li?čině settlement, the decline of the city, and "white" flight.
Law as an Instrument of Discrimination: Denying Ci
By Jirina Siklova and Marta Miklusakova, 1998.
Legal Defense of the Roma (Gypsies) in Central and
Report from the Columbia Law School, November 1997.
Long pursuit of racial purity
Sweden's forced sterilisation policy, by Laurence Jourdan.
Lynching is Not a Crime
From the European Roma Rights Center Newsletter, Spring 1998.
May 1998 Activity Report of the GHM Roma Office
From the Greek Helsinki Monitor.
Migration of Romanies to Canada and Britain: The A
By Peter Mulder, 1999.
Migration of Romany: A Challenge for Western Count
By Peter Mulder.
Needy Guests, Reluctant Hosts
By Elzbieta M. Gozdziak. From the Anthropology of East Europe Review. The plight of Romanians in Poland, Roma (Gypsies) caught in the crossfire.
No Room for the Roma?
Jeremy Corbyn MP outlines the plight of Roma refugees in the UK.
On the Road to Nowhere
By Jake Bowers-Burbridge, UK.
Persecution of the Roma Gypsies
By F. Wessely and M. Lastarria.
Report on the Situation of the Roma
From the Office of the Czech Republic Government.
Roma and Forced Migration: An Annotated Bibliograp
Second Edition, 1998, from the Open Society Institute, Forced Migration Projects.
Roma Monarchist Organisation of Albania
"As our brothers are fleeing the chaos in Kosovo, they are living as unwanted 'guests' in surrounding countries. It is only with a strong and independent Epirus that our people from all over the region will have a place to call home. A country in which we share equal status with all other citizens."
Roma Refugees' Catch-22
Anti-Roma sentiment permeates Slovak society from top to bottom. The British Government has just introduced visa requirements for migrants from Slovakia but asylum applicants are never granted visas, November 1998.
Roma Women and the Spanish Criminal Justice System
Project examines the overrepresentation of Roma women in Spanish prisons. Financed by Initiative Daphne, Task Force of the European Commission and directed by the Association LA KALLE of Madrid, in Spanish and English.
Roma Women and the Spanish Criminal System
Around 25% of women prison inmates in Spain are Roma women, an overrepresentation 20 times greater than the general population. An analysis of this reality, and oriented towards promoting actions against a serious violation of human rights.
Roma/Gypsies: A European Minority
Edited by Jean-Pierre Ligeois and Nicholas Gheorge, from Minority Rights Group International.
Romani Rights in Europe
Hearing at Washington, D.C., presided by the Hon. Christopher H. Smith, July 21, 1998.
Selected Reporting on Romani Human Rights
From the U.S. Department of State's Annual Country Reports on Human Rights for Calendar Year 1998.
Social Violence and the Social Institutions
Paper by Toma Tomov, addresses the issue of violence and social institutions involved in the catering for the public needs in the period of social change following the collapse of the totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on the Roma.
Terezín Files
Reported by Eva Sobotková, from the hCa Roma Section seminar entitled "Citizenship and legislation in the light of the recent Roma exodus and the political situation in Central and Eastern Europe," 1998.
The Consequences of Anti-Gypsy Racism in Europe
By Ian Hancock.
The Destructiveness of the Criminal Justice and Pu
An article critical of provision of the 1994 law which impose hardships on Gypsies and Travellers in the UK.
The Gypsy Law
Concerning the New Jersey state legislature's repeal of that state's "anti-Gypsy" law, from The Guide, March 1998.
The Holocaust Today
New Presence article by Fedor Gál, March 1997.
The Irish Traveller Movement
A national network of organisations and individuals working within the Traveller community in Ireland.
The Life of Roma in the Czech Republic, Yesterday
From the Czech Center, New York.
The Marginalisation of Gypsies
By Helen O'Nions. Examines the rationale behind 'anti-Gypsy' legislation and explores why attempts to assimilate Roma are destined to fail.
The Misery of Law: The Rights of Roma in the Trans
From the European Roma Rights Center.
The Right to Respect for Home and Family Life
By Helen O'Nions. Examines a 'Gypsy case' challenging UK legislation.
The Struggle for the Control of Identity
By Ian Hancock.
Towards a New Paradigm of the Nation: The Case of
Paper by Cara Feys, originally published in the Journal of Public and International Affairs, 1997. Includes notes.
Transnational Organizations, Human Rights Regimes,
By Richard M. Clewett, Jr., 1999.
Traveller Visibility Group
A Traveller-led development organisation based in Cork, Ireland.
Travellers and the Built Environment
By Steve Staines of Friends, Families and Travellers Support Group.
Travellers Part of Our Diverse Society
By Margaret Donaghy. Examination of a report how Travellers, like their Gypsy counterparts in mainland Europe, suffer from governmental discrimination and indifference to their suffering.
Turning a Blind Eye to Racism
Report of Roma rights in Bulgaria from Amnesty International.
Us Against Them
From European Journalism Centre Publications: Reporting ethnic minorities and ethnic conflict - beyond good or evil.
We are Roma and not Gypsies
By Zana Russell, Canada.
What Are They Writing About Us Blacks? Roma and Ra
From the Anthropology of East Europe Review, Autumn 1995.
You Try It For a Few Days!
Commentary about the Roma and the gadje in the Czech Republic, by Fedor Gál. (1997)