International news Gypsies are often referred to as the “forgotten victims of the Holocaust”. In early December 2003, in the Jewish Holocaust Museum, an exhibition opened in memory of Gypsies killed during the Second World War. The exhibition – devised…
In the media, Gypsies are often presented as a “criminal people”, “swindlers”, and “drug dealers”. Russian newspapers and television channels do all they can to avoid seeing anything joyous or positive in the Gypsy people.
The Northwest Centre for the Social and Legal Protection of the Romany People presents a new educational project. In 2004, with the support of our long-time partners, the French organisation CCFD, our Centre will begin working in several schools…
This conference, organised by the Northwest Centre for the Social and Legal Protection of the Romany People, was held on 22 September 2003 at Aleksandrovskaya secondary school, in the Pushkin district of St. Petersburg. The seminar was attended by teachers…
It is possible that some of you are aware that, starting in June 2003, “Memorial” has implemented a program of free medical assistance to elderly people of gypsy (Roma) origin in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad and Pskov regions.
We continue to tell about schools where Gypsy children study. Today the discussion is about School No. 414 in the village of Volodarka. It recently became fifty years old. By today’s measures, the school is small – almost 300 children…
The Education of Romani Children Has Become a Subject for Discussion amongst Academics, Social activists and Officials
Diverse work on getting children of various nationalities, including gypsy children, to go to school has long been going on at School 462 in Pushkin region. Today the third generation of gypsies living in Alexandrovskaya is studying at the school,…
The roundtable devoted to the Human Rights Day was organised as a part of the 16th International film festival on human rights “Stalker.” The UN senior adviser on human rights in Russia, Russian human rights activists working on discrimination (the…
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