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Vigilantes burn Roma camp in Marseille, France

Published in Monday October 1st, 2012 In In the media

September 28, 2012 A group of vigilantes have evicted a group of Roma (Gypsies) from a Marseille housing estate and burnt down their camp, French media report. There were no reports of violence when the 35 Roma people were forced out of the city’s Creneaux estate. Furniture and other items were set on fire at the […]

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Amnesty day of protest for Italian forced evictions of Roma

Published in Monday September 24th, 2012 In In the media

September 22nd, 2012 Amnesty International will hold a day of protest today to protest against the Italian government’s forced evictions of Roma people. The event will take place outside Brown Thomas on St Patrick St from 2pm to 4pm today as part of a global day of protest against the Italian’s actions of six months, […]

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Amnesty International reports violation of Italy Roma rights

Published in Monday September 17th, 2012 In In the media

September 15, 2012 Amnesty International has recently released a report called “On the Edge” which urges Italy to change its laws, policies and practices that marginalize the Roma people, also known as Gypsies. An estimated 200,000 Roma people live in Italy today, the majority of them in encampments on the outskirts of cities such as […]

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Italy’s Roma still segregated and without prospects

Published in Thursday September 13th, 2012 In Social movement news

September 12, 2012 Discriminatory laws, policies and practices which marginalize Italy’s Roma must be urgently changed, Amnesty international said in a briefing published today. On the edge: Roma, forced evictions and segregation in Italy, exposes the continuing systematic failure of Italian authorities to uphold Roma rights. In the 10 months since Italy’s highest administrative court […]

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The Urban Social Forum opens in Naples with a field visit from the UN Special Rapporteur

Published in Monday September 10th, 2012 In Social movement news

Naples gave a warm welcome to the second Urban Social Forum (USF). The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing accompanied a USF delegation to the popular neighbourhood Scampia, where she held a reunion with social organizations and the inhabitants of the Giugliano roma camp, who live under an eviction order threat.

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Scores of Roma face imminent forced eviction in Romania

Published in Monday September 10th, 2012 In Social movement news

September 06, 2012 More than 100 Romani adults and children will be forcibly evicted from an informal settlement in northern Romania unless local authorities back down on a pledge to demolish their homes, Amnesty International said today. Local officials in the northern town of Baia Mare have given 26 Romani families living in the Pirita […]

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New expulsions, persecution of Roma have some warning ‘Hitler was not alone’

Published in Monday September 3rd, 2012 In In the media

August 31st, 2012 “Remember that Hilter was never alone,” warns one European journalist and blogger in the wake of recent violence throughout Europe, racist actions by right wing groups, and now, just this week – more forcible expulsions of the group known as “Roma” or gypsies fromFrance. Meanwhile today, human rights groups, the European Union and several […]

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Post-Katrina Reforms in New Orleans Continue to Disenfranchise African-Americans, Poor

Published in Friday August 31st, 2012 In Opinion

August 29, 2012 Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a laboratory for government reforms. But the processes through which those experiments have been carried out have rarely been transparent or democratic, and they have often been divisive, pitting new residents against those who grew up here, rich against poor, and white against […]

France urged to stop discrimination against Roma

Published in Thursday August 30th, 2012 In News on the Rapporteurs

The French government has been urged by United Nations independent experts to stop discrimination against the Roma people. The Special Rapporteurs on minority issues, migrants, housing and racism say that evictions of the Roma continue and threaten to place families in highly vulnerable situations.

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Roma evictions/expulsions: “France must comply with international non-discrimination standards”

Published in Thursday August 30th, 2012

United Nations human rights experts urged the French Government to ensure that its policies and practices regarding the dismantling of Roma settlements and the expulsion of migrant Roma conform in all respects to European and international human rights law relating to non-discrimination. “Evictions continue and threaten to place families in highly vulnerable situations,” stressed the Special Rapporteurs on minority issues, migrants, housing and racism.

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