Theme: Roma rights

It’s utterly sad to see a home destroyed – a place of once happy life, children play and celebration … a manifold of bitter loss when such a home is suddenly and violently destroyed by war. In the photograph :…

Here in 2016, there’s no need for the Romani kids of Slavyansk to hide in shelters. Their homes bear the marks of war, cracks and other structural damage and living in them is still not safe. The children bedroom in…

One year after the ceasefire, Romani children in Donbass still live in ruined homes… #SolidarityRomaUkraine If you want to express your solidarity with the Roma of Donbass and support the campaign, follow the link (click “support”) : https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/38840-solidarityromaukraine

Dyumen “took” Crimea two years ago. Now he’s “taking” a Roma settlement in Plekhanovo It’s all happened before, of course: Gas and electricity are disconnected. Frozen Roma mothers and grandmothers wail and curse in desperation. OMON troops, SWAT teams and…

Lydia, a Romani woman from Dzerzinsk (Donetsk region) tells how she tried to hide from artillery fire with 9 grandchildren in a cold, wet and dirty shelter. The conditions were so bad that people could hardly stand them. Meanwhile, nearby…

In towns like Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and Dzerzhinsk, the shelter sometimes was the one and only hope to survive. Unfortunately, shelters proved not to be for everybody : in some places there simply was a lack of space , in others…