Gypsy News

Gypsy artists are coming to town

2009-06-05T22:23:00.001-05:00

Published Date: 29 May 2009TOP gypsy artists are coming to Doncaster to mark the second national Gypsy Roma Traveller History month.The Baro Ziro Big Time Festival will be running for a week in June as part of the Hothouse arts programme, and will taken place at three venues across the borough - including a traditional circus tent in Chequer Road's Arts Park.The main marquee line-up will feature

Gypsies, citizens without rights

2009-06-05T22:17:00.000-05:00

Friday 22 May 2009FRANCE 24’s reporter went to meet gypsies in Russia. Considered second class citizens, they are victims of numerous discriminations. This report was filmed in Chudovo, south of Saint-Petersburg.(MORE)

Anger at travellers' camp

2009-06-05T22:11:00.000-05:00

Travellers set up camp in a field near Newent despite a last-minute council attempt to stop them.A dozen families arrived at the field on Friday and worked around the clock to make the site their home.They laid a hard surface, put up portable toilets, dug a cesspit and 12 separate plots were fenced off.It is understood the site is privately owned by one or more of the travelling community but no

Human Rights for Gypsies

2009-06-05T22:02:00.000-05:00

25. 5. 2009Gypsies, the long-lost children of northwest India, number about 12 million worldwide. The Gypsies first arrived in Europe in the thirteenth century as asylum seekers, fleeing forcible conversion to Islam by the invading Turks. Their descendants today number 8 million, constituting Europe's largest ethnic minority, a marginalized and much maligned minority, whose contributions to

Czech neo-Nazis air anti-Gypsy TV ad

2009-06-05T21:57:00.001-05:00

Published: May 21, 2009 at 10:42 AMPRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 21 (UPI) -- The Czech public television network said Thursday it will sue a far-right party for submitting an anti-Gypsy racist ad so it will not have to air it again.Czech television received the National Party video clip, which promises a "final solution" of the Gypsy problem, and broadcast it Wednesday, the first day of a publicity

Italy: Mayor 'pays' Roma-Gypsies to leave the city

2009-06-05T21:50:00.000-05:00

Pisa, 21 May (AKI) - The mayor of the central Italian city of Pisa, Marco Filippeschi said the city was paying Roma-Gypsies who lived on the outskirts of the city to leave. "We send them back to their home in Romania," said Filippeschi, quoted by Italian daily 'Il Giornale'.Filippeschi, from the centre-left Democratic Party, said he decided to demolish the shanty towns along the Aurelia and

Hungarian Blues

2009-06-05T21:41:00.000-05:00

posted by Eyal Press on 05/18/2009 @ 3:03pmI spent much of last year in Hungary, leaving just before the IMF cobbled together a rescue package to prevent the nation's economy from imploding. A full-scale implosion has been averted, at least for now, but Hungary is still in dire shape. Its economy is projected to shrink by 6 percent this year, unemployment is rising, and the country's disgraced

Exposed: The Slaughterhouses Where Racehorses Are Retired

2009-06-05T20:41:00.000-05:00

While millions of viewers watch this year's Belmont Stakes, former champions like Charismatic and War Emblem are half a world away in Japan. Thousands of other less famous U.S.-bred thoroughbreds have also been exported overseas for breeding and racing. When they are no longer useful, most of these horses will be slaughtered.PETA undercover investigators have recorded exclusive footage in a

Standing up for the gypsies

2009-05-18T15:27:00.002-05:00

The largest illegal travellers' camp in Britain has found a divine ally in its survival battle. Jerome Taylor reportsFriday, 15 May 2009To say that Marianne McCarthy is house-proud would be something of an understatement. The dainty gravel garden outside her two bedroom prefab is immaculately kept, boasting two freshly painted miniature cannons and a host of cheerful garden gnomes to greet her

Czech pig farm on Nazi Gypsy death camp

2009-05-14T12:45:00.002-05:00

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 13 (UPI) -- A Czech Cabinet minister said he will try to collect money to pay for the removal of a pig farm from the site of a Nazi camp for Gypsies in World War II.Michael Kocab, Czech minister for minorities and human rights, Wednesday said he will urge companies to help form a foundation to provide $35 million to relocate the large pig farm at the southern Bohemian

Gypsy vigilantes operate in Czech Republic

2009-05-11T10:25:00.000-05:00

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 4 (UPI) -- Gypsy vigilantes have been deployed in some regions of the Czech Republic in a bid to oppose rising extremism, Prague Radio said.Gypsy activists, who call themselves Romanies, staged the first ever countrywide peaceful protests Sunday, sparked by an arson assault in mid-April on a Romany family that left a 2-year-old girl hospitalized with serious injuries,

U.S. FBI helps Hungary on Gypsy killings

2009-05-11T10:23:00.000-05:00

BUDAPEST, Hungary, May 4 (UPI) -- U.S. FBI agents are helping Hungarian police investigate a recent series of killings involving Gypsies.The head of Hungary's police Jozsef Bencze said FBI agents analyze evidence they receive from Hungarian police officers and help produce psychological profiles of killers, the Hungarian news agency MTI said Monday.About 100 Hungarian police officers work on some

Gypsy families in Kosovo on toxic land

2009-05-04T10:32:00.001-05:00

NORTH MITROVICA, Kosovo No one seems to care about the gypsies.Displaced by conflict and stranded by bureaucratic inertia, dozens of gypsy families remain on toxic land 10 years after they were relocated there by the United Nations after the Kosovo war.Lead blackens the children's teeth, blanks out memories and stunts growth. Other symptoms of lead poisoning include aggressive behavior,

Murder Mystery: Who's Killing Hungary's Gypsies?

2009-05-04T10:22:00.001-05:00

By John Nadler / TiszalökFriday, May. 01, 2009Time.comJeno Koka's killers shot him in the chest moments after he had bid good night to his wife Eva and stepped from his house on his way to a shift at the nearby pharmaceutical factory where he worked.The 54-year-old grandfather bled to death only a few paces from his doorstep.Although Koka's wife said she never heard the shot that felled her

ASYLUM IN CANADA IS NECESSARY UNTIL THE EU CAN GUARANTEE SAFETY

2009-05-01T08:36:00.002-05:00

April 25, 2008Roma Community Centre - TorontoASYLUM IN CANADA IS NECESSARY UNTIL THE EU CAN GUARANTEE SAFETYThe Roma Community Centre in Toronto wishes to bring to the attention of the current Canadian government and the Canadian people the surge in violence that is being perpetrated against the Roma minority in the eastern member states of the European Union. On March 21 in Kosice, Slovakia a

Romania: Gypsies Celebrate Roma Day, Yet Fear Reigns

2009-05-01T08:31:00.000-05:00

Written by Chuck TodaroThursday, 30 April 2009April 8th marked the Twentieth International Roma Day since the Gypsies of Eastern Europe broke free of the communist’s amalgamated "national minority" status and began openly acknowledging their heritage. However, according to the US State Department 2007 Country Report on Human Rights, Romania, home to Europe’s largest Roma population, is the

Group pleads out to save hoarded cat

2009-05-01T08:27:00.000-05:00

A north Texas rescue center is pleading for help to save an animal rescued from a hoarded cat situationGypsy, a 2-year-old Siamese cat, was rescued from a 300 square foot motel room enclosed with almost two dozen other cats.Ronald Teague, 62, was arrested by Plano police March 30 for outstanding warrants including cruelty to animals and theft.Tonja Pfister, Texas Siamese Rescue managing director,

Fifth gypsy murder raises ethnic tensions in Hungary

2009-05-01T08:23:00.000-05:00

Published Date: 30 April 2009By Matthew DayTHOUSANDS of Hungarian gypsies attended the funeral yesterday of the latest victim in a series of murders that have stoked ethnic tensions and prompted fears that far-right extremists are waging a bloody secret war against the country's largest minority.Jeno Koka, 54, was gunned down last week in the courtyard of his home as he set off to his work in a

Czech Gypsies seek pope's assistance

2009-05-01T08:19:00.000-05:00

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, April 28 (UPI) -- Czech Gypsies have called on the pope to help them improve the status of their people, who have suffered discrimination across Europe.Roma Realia, a Czech Romany non-governmental organization, asked Pope Benedict XVI to assist in organizing a debate on the social position of Gypsies in the Czech Republic and in other European countries, Prague Radio said

Hungary suspects Gypsy assaults organized

2009-05-01T08:15:00.000-05:00

BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 27 (UPI) -- Hungary's national police chief said he suspects killings of Gypsies in northeastern Hungary could be blamed on the same ring of extremists.Jozsef Bencze said he increased an original reward of $45,000 to $227,000 for information that could lead to the killers of members of the Romany (Gypsy) minority, the Hungarian news agency MTI said Monday.Bencze said two

Jewish groups should lead condemnation of attacks on Gypsies in Europe

2009-05-01T08:10:00.001-05:00

April 27, 2009The Times says this front-page report by Nicholas Kulish about murderous attacks on Gypsies, or Roma people, in Hungary is the paper's second-most-emailed story. As well it should be. Attacks on Gypsies recall the Holocaust, when as many as 600,000 Roma were exterminated by the Nazis.As Isabel Fonseca and Norman Finkelsteinhave demonstrated, the Holocaust Memorial/Elie Wiesel had

Gypsy children fed poisonous rice

2009-05-01T08:06:00.000-05:00

Staff ReportLAHORE: Around 10 gypsy children went unconscious on Monday after some unidentified person provided them with poisonous rice in F-Block near Liaqat Chowk in the Sabzazar area.Rescue 1122 officials reached the scene and shifted the children to the Jinnah Hospital. The victims were identified as Tanveer Akram (5), Mani (4), Ali Hussain (7), Nirma (4), Moona (4), Ayesha (6), Sidra (7)

As Economic Turmoil Mounts, So Do Attacks on Hungary’s Gypsies

2009-04-27T13:36:00.000-05:00

NYTBy NICHOLAS KULISHPublished: April 26, 2009TISZALOK, Hungary — Jeno Koka was a doting grandfather and dedicated worker on his way to his night-shift job at a chemical plant last week when he was shot dead at his doorstep. To his killer, he was just a Gypsy, and that seems to have been reason enough.Prejudice against Roma — widely known as Gypsies and long among Europe’s most oppressed minority

Czech Gypsies to protest across country

2009-04-27T13:32:00.000-05:00

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, April 24 (UPI) -- Activists of the Romany, or Gypsy, minority in the Czech Republic said they plan countrywide protests against rising extremism and discrimination.Leaders of the minority, estimated at 300,000 members by Czech authorities, said the protests will be organized in some 15 towns and cities on Sunday, May 3, Prague Radio said Friday.The protests are coming

Packed gypsy meeting in Risborough attended by 350 residents

2009-04-27T13:25:00.002-05:00

Published Date: 24 April 2009 A MEETING to discuss the arrival of gypsies near Princes Risborough held last night was so well attended that around 150 could not get in.The 200 people who did manage to cram into The Royal British Legion Hall on Thursday heard from police, councillors, planning officers and the secretary of the Gypsy Council regarding the arrival of the gypsies at Hemley Hill off