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German investment to provide Roma with jobs and housing

Published in Thursday July 5th, 2012 In In the media

July 5, 2012 BELGRADE – The Roma National Minority Council and a consortium of German companies represented by Jugoagent KTS and Roma Investment Group signed an MoU on Thursday The memorandum of understanding should provide employment opportunities and solve the housing problems of part of the Roma population in the country. Under the document, the […]

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Czech Republic: Violence against homeless people rises

Published in Tuesday July 3rd, 2012 In Social movement news

July 2nd, 2012 Romani people are not the only targets for violence in Czech society – the recent deterioration in the societal atmosphere is also being felt by homeless people. The assault on two homeless people in Olomouc this past Monday is not the only such recent crime, and hatred against homeless people is on […]

Rehousing Romania’s Roma signals swing to extremes

Published in Monday July 2nd, 2012 In In the media

June 29, 2012 Building a wall that closes in a Roma neighborhood and rehousing families in a dilapidated communist-era office block have earned Catalin Chereches accusations of racism. But the actions have also helped the mayor of the northern Romanian town of Baia Mare to become the country’s most popular local politician and shown how […]

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A refuge for the Roma in Berlin, Germany

Published in Monday July 2nd, 2012 In In the media

June 30, 2012   It seems unlikely but Berlin, the very city where the genocide of the Roma (Gypsy) peoples was planned 70 years ago, has become the city where they now find refuge. In the suburb of Neukoelln, a large complex of run-down apartments is being done up to become comfortable homes for more […]

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Nils Muižnieks concerned by eviction of Roma families to Romanian “toxic dump”

Published in Tuesday June 12th, 2012 In In the media

June 12, 2012 Re-locating more than 300 Romanian Roma families to buildings of a disused chemical factory, breaches housing rights and may be life-threatening, the human rights commissioner has warned. Commissioner Nils Muižnieks wants the authorities in the Romanian city of Baia Mare to rehouse the families, following reports that 22 children and two adults […]

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‘Landmark’ Roma eviction ruling sets precedent, rights group says (Bulgaria)

Published in Wednesday May 2nd, 2012 In In the media

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that evicting Roma from an established community outside of Sofia, Bulgaria, would violate the right to life. Amnesty International called it a “landmark judgment.” The Strasbourg-based rights court issued the ruling last week in favor of 23 Bulgarian nationals living in a settlement with about 250 other Roma. The Roma had settled in Batalova Vodenitsa, on the outskirts of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, in the 1960s and 70s. The Roma, also known as gypsies, have been pushed to the margins of European society and have even become targets of persecution.

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New law to reduce housing discrimination (USA)

Published in Wednesday April 25th, 2012 In In the media

April 23rd, 2012 Franklin County and Columbus officials said Monday that they were partnering with the Columbus Urban League to prevent housing discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. City and county leaders held the first of several strategy meetings to take aim at the discrimination, 10TV’s Ashleigh Barry reported. A new federal law […]

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USA: “Moving away from the criminalization of homelessness, a step in the right direction”

Published in Monday April 23rd, 2012 In News

Three United Nations human rights experts on extreme poverty, housing, and water and sanitation welcomed a groundbreaking federal report in the United States of America which recognizes that the criminalization of homelessness may violate the human rights of homeless persons. The study by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness and the U.S. Department of Justice condemns the criminalization of homelessness and recommends effective alternative practices and policies to reduce and prevent homelessness.

Press Release: “Let’s not accept another lost generation of Roma” – say UN experts

Published in Thursday April 5th, 2012

“We should not accept yet another lost generation of Roma girls and boys whose only expectations are lives of poverty, discrimination and exclusion and whose futures are dictated by negative stereotypes which commonly go unchallenged.”

Papering Over The Cracks – A documentary by the Seven Towers Residents Group

Published in Thursday November 3rd, 2011

The documentary tells the stories of various residents’ campaigns to hold the housing executive and the department for social development to account on everyday issues like the right to a warm and comfortable home, the right to a safe environment for families, the right to security and dignity and the right to participate in the decisions that affect their lives.

Papering Over The Cracks – A documentary by the Seven Towers Residents Group from Participation and the Practice o on Vimeo.