The World Bank and the Slovak Social Insurance have issued a 2013 report on the demographics of state aid beneficiaries. Although most people would point out the Roma as most likely social group to receive welfare, the analysis proved that 25-year-old people are actually the most numerous of this kind .
Roma parliamentary representatives from Serbia, Macedonia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Croatia have signed a declaration about a collaboration on the enforcement
This is an ad I saw two weeks ago on some Czech website selling used cars. My boyfriend was surfing the web in order to find a second-hand transit van
It is well known that Slovak police interventions in Roma communities are often brutal and unlawful. We can even say that Roma communities serve like real
A high-profile court case, angry parents at the schoolroom door, and quiet, persistent efforts tell the story of Roma integration in Croatia’s schools.
Ondavské Matiašovce is a beautiful small village in east Slovakia, the place where I was born and where I have lived until recently. I remember that,
The association was established in February 2013 and, as previously said, it is open to every Roma media in Europe interested to join. This informal association
A row has erupted over a memo in which the managers of a Skopje mall purportedly ordered that Roma employees be fired from the food court, Balkan
Until recently, a Roma man would not eat leftovers from the previous day. In other words, he would not touch food left from a previous meal, and the woman
A book vendor in Bucharest talks about his life and how business is not as good now as it once was during Communist times.
Romanian National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD) decided to sanction Grigore Cartianu,the editor-in-chief of the national newspaper Adevarul
Roma parliamentary representative Nicolae Paun, and the traditional
Until the end of November 2012, employment offices in the Czech
After the general elections held on 9 December 2012, Romania Roma will be represented in the parliament by three ethnic MPs who openly admitted their ethnic
SKOPJE | Ramush Muarem, a prominent Romani journalist in Macedonia, remembers the resistance civil society activists encountered from Roma when, in the mid-1990s, they began trying to raise awareness of...
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the placement of two Hungarian Roma in a school for the mentally...
In August 2012, the Ostrava City Hall issued a 24-hour eviction order to the owner of the 11 buildings at Přednádraží, asking him to evict all of the residents, giving as a reason an unsafe condition...
PODGORICA | Montenegro’s newest effort to keep Roma children in school is happening far from the classroom – and often involves neither student nor teacher. ...
Six months ago when I was in the USA on an exchange program the organizers asked me to talk about Roma issues. I decided...
Too often the world is divided into US vs THEM. This film ”Ca Toţi Oamenii” (“Just Like Everyone”) is meant to tear down these walls and to show that the stereotypes and misconceptions...
A guest arriving in Turkey will find a seemingly open, tolerant and colorful society, and won’t probably perceive any of its internal tensions. Tourists train their cameras towards the magnificent mosques...
All of us can remember the times when we were little and our milk teeth started to fall out. In some cases,...
Did you miss Sutka Roma Rap’s performance at last month’s Tocak launch in Skopje at the MKC Club? The...
Elle Ivanova Ellie Ivanova: “Some deeply ingrained stereotypes still exist today in Bulgarian society because...
Property prices have fallen inSlovakia, the way they did in many other EU countries. As a result, some Roma have been selling their flats and buying cheaper houses in villages. In other words, foreign...
Today Transitions and its partners will present www.tocak.org, a news and information portal on Roma issues in the Balkans. The event, which takes place between...
