MOSCOW, Russia -- Bank robbers have threatened tellers with knives, shot their way into banks and tunnelled up into vaults. But one woman in southern ...
Human Rights First | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
Violence against Roma in Hungary is occurring against a backdrop of widespread marginalization of Roma communities, discrimination, and anti-Roma rhetoric expressed by some public officials.
Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
A sixth victim was found murdered in what is believed to be a spate of attacks on members of Hungary's large Roma community, BBC reports. The woman, ...
Inter Press Service | Julio Godoy | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
BERLIN, Aug 4 (IPS) - A ceremony at Auschwitz Sunday to commemorate the half a million Sinti and Roma killed by the Nazis became a reminder of the ...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.24.2009 | World
A UK man previously accused of threatening Romanian immigrants out of their house has now been banned from the area by the Irish High Court, the BBC r...
WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
Imagine you have no birth certificate, no passport and no legal rights. You're trapped in the country where you were born, but no document indica...
GlobalPost | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
Bruce I. Konviser | Global Post LETY, Czech Republic -- In a small grassy clearing marked with boulders, dozens gathered last week to pay homage t...
The Guardian | Tana de Zulueta | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
People forget, but the European history of segregation began in Venice. Ghetto is a Venetian word. It was, and still is, a neighbourhood, one of the o...
Modiba | Posted 04.06.2009 | World
For a country with a history of xenophobia towards its Roma population (a.k.a gypsies; or, in Spanish, gitanos), Spain is becoming increasingly fond of traditional gypsy music.
International Herald Tribune | Ben Seidler and Simon Marks | Posted 11.15.2008 | Style
Fashion's ongoing fascination with the Gypsy style of dress is intriguing because the ethnic minority, which prefers to be known as Roma, has been sco...
GlobalPost | Kevin O'Flynn | Posted 12.14.2009 | World