
The Roma families that have fled the fighting have had to overcome innumerable obstacles to keep their children in school. Irina and her daughter Natasha, who lived in Luhansk Oblast’s Lutuhyne District before the war, have been forced to move…
The Roma families that have fled the fighting have had to overcome innumerable obstacles to keep their children in school. Irina and her daughter Natasha, who lived in Luhansk Oblast’s Lutuhyne District before the war, have been forced to move…
The European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated legal appeal made by the lawyer of ADC “Memorial” Olga Tseitlina on behalf of Zhanna Lakatosz, who had been accused of beating a 1-year-old child, which had led to the baby’s…
The wartorn house of a big Roma family in Slavyansk hasn’t yet restored. To repair the destroyed roof, building materials are needed but it’s difficult for Roma to procure them. In 2014, this house was occupied by separatists, later fights…
Between International Women’s Day (8 March) and International Roma Day (8 April), UNITED network organisation Anti Discrimination Centre Memorial is conducting a special campaign in solidarity with the Roma of Donbass. The Donbass region in the east of Ukraine has…
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…