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Antigypsyism during the Franco Dictatorship in Spain: Truth, Memory, and Justice

Antigypsyism during the Franco Dictatorship in Spain: Truth, Memory, and Justice

Hybrid Event on 16 December 2022, 9.30-13.00 CET (Spanish Parliament, Madrid & Online)
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16 December 2022: Launch of the national report on Spain, ‘The persecution of Roma during Franco’s dictatorship", Hyrid event on Truth, Memory and Justice

The event will symbolically take place at the Spanish Parliament, since in July 2022 thanks to Roma rights advocacy the Spanish Parliament approved the law on Democratic Memory, where Roma communities are considered among the victims of the Franco regime. The law also included the creation of a working group on the Memory and Reconciliation with the Roma Communities in Spain.

Therefore, this CHACHIPEN conference will provide a timely contribution. Please find the draft programme enclosed.  The Spanish research team, composed of Anna Carballo and Pedro Casermeiro will present the CHACHIPEN report on Spain which is looking into the persecution of Roma during Franco’s dictatorship and the ongoing antigypsyism. 

This event will further promote critical reflection on historically rooted antigypsyism and elaborate on concrete transitional justice tools or approaches used in Germany and Sweden to bring about the right to truth, and memorialisation and to ensure justice for Roma survivors, victims’ family members and Roma communities.  

This event falls within the framework of the European Union’s funded project ‘Paving the way for Truth and Reconciliation Process to address antigypsyism in Europe: Remembrance, Recognition, Justice and Trust-Building’. Project is abbreviated as ‘CHACHIPEN’, meaning ‘truth’ in the Romani language. CHACHIPEN aims to address historically rooted antigypsyism and its legacies by employing transitional justice approaches and tools, such as, for example, truth and reconciliation commissions.

Selected Speakers;

    • Dr Ismael Cortés, member of the Spanish Parliament (host)/ CHACHIPEN Advisory Board Member
    • Ms Soraya Post, the City of Gothenburg, Sweden and former MEP/ CHACHIPEN Advisory Board Member
    • Ms Eleni Tsetsekou, Head of Division Roma and Travellers Team, Council of Europe (online)
    • Ms Aline Miklos, Senior Fellow, UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
    • Mr Pedro Casermeiro, Rromane Siklǒvne/ CHACHIPEN Spanish research team
    • Dr Annabel Carballo, FAGIC/ CHACHIPEN Spanish research team
    • Dr Mirjam Karoly, IHRA Delegation to Austria/ former OSCE ODIHR/ CHACHIPEN Advisory Board Member 
    • Dr Markus End, Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin / CHACHIPEN Advisory Board Member
    • Prof. Lavinia Stan, St. Francis Xavier University in Canada (online)

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The event on 16 December 2022 (from 9.30 to 13.00) is hybrid.  Online web streaming is open to the public and it will also be shared on the Chachipen Twitter @ChachipenEU. The conference will offer Spanish/English translation.

Please register here to follow the online streaming via Spanish Parliament website. 

Participation in persons is invitation only. 

This hybrid event is free and open to the public but registration is mandatory. Once registered, you will receive instructions on how to join this event virtually.

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This project is funded by the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020) and  counts with a kind contribution from the German Federal Foreign Office.

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Hybrid event in Sweden: Roma rights and the fight against antigypsyism

Hybrid event in Sweden: Roma rights and the fight against antigypsyism

Hybrid Event on 09 December 2022, 9.00-13.00 CET (Södertörn University Sweden & Online)
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9 December 2022: Launch of the national report on Sweden, ‘Considering the Swedish Commission Against Antigypsyism 2014-2016: Experiences, lessons learned and recommendations

The Swedish Commission against Antiziganism has frequently been cited as a promising example of how governments could take responsibility to address the history of antigypsyism and to raise awareness about Roma rights. We invite you for a more nuanced discussion – what has this Commission managed to achieve? What have been the weaknesses? And what can we learn? At this event, we will launch the CHACHIPEN report on Sweden ‘Considering the Swedish Commission against Antiziganism 2014-2016′. 

Experts from Finland, Germany, Norway and Sweden, as well as, those working at the European level, will be presenting their experiences in the fight against historically-rooted antigypsyism and political processes around the promotion of Romani rights. Roma and non-Roma academics, lawyers, representatives of the Swedish government and Roma civil society will further discuss the potential of setting up dedicated Antigypsyism Commissions among the other transitional justice tools to address the darkest chapters of the Roma past and ongoing antigypsyism.

This event falls within the framework of the European Union’s funded project ‘Paving the way for Truth and Reconciliation Process to address antigypsyism in Europe: Remembrance, Recognition, Justice and Trust-Building’. Project is abbreviated as ‘CHACHIPEN’, meaning ‘truth’ in the Romani language. CHACHIPEN aims to address historically rooted antigypsyism and its legacies by employing transitional justice approaches and tools, such as, for example, truth and reconciliation commissions.

Speakers;

  • Soraya Post, City of Gothenburg, Sweden/ former Member of the European Parliament and member of the Swedish Commission against Antiziganism
  • Dr. Mehmet Daimagüler, Commissioner against Antigypsyism of the German Federal Government
  • Dr. Jan Selling, Södertörn University, CHACHIPEN Swedish expert
  • Dr. Marko Stenroos , Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
  • Sunita Memetovic , Defence lawyer, human rights activist in Sweden
  • Dr Solvor Lauritzen, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
  • Hans Caldaras, Romani Elder, author, singer and human rights activist in Sweden
  • Thomas Hammarberg, Swedish MP/ Former Head of the Swedish Commission against Antiziganism
  • Isabela Mihalache, European Roma Grassroots Organisations (ERGO) Network

Host:

  • Dr Sergio Carrera, Senior Research Fellow/ Head of Justice and Home Affairs Unit, CEPS – Introducing Chachipen project

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The event on 9 December 2022, 09.00 – 13.00 CET is open to the public, hybrid (online webinar) and it will also be broadcasted on CEPS Youtube Channel. The conference will offer Swedish/English translation.     

If you are interested to attend the event in person, please contact Valeria Redjepagic, at valeria.redjepagic@sh.se.

This hybrid event is free and open to the public but registration is mandatory. Once registered, you will receive instructions on how to join this event virtually.

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This project is funded by the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020) and  counts with a kind contribution from the German Federal Foreign Office.

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Compensation for forced sterilizations of Romani women and others is poorly implemented

Compensation for forced sterilizations of Romani women and others is poorly implemented

By Gwendolyn Albert
In November 2021, a law was passed in the Czech Republic to compensate people who have been sterilized without their informed consent there between 1966 and 2012.

In November 2021, a law was passed in the Czech Republic to compensate those who were sterilized without their informed consent there between 1966 and 2012. Efforts to end these human rights violations have been underway almost since these practices were first reported in the 1970s as targeting Romani women in particular in the former Czechoslovakia. This recent development represents an important breakthrough for civil society, enforcement of human rights, and the Romani women who have been campaigning for redress. The compensation process opened on 1 January 2022 and will close on 1 January 2025.

These violations began in the former Czechoslovakia when communist-era social workers used a combination of deceptive practices, incentives and threats to convince Romani women in particular to undergo the procedure, many of whom were also misled to believe it was reversible, temporary birth control. The incentive program was ended around the time of the transition to democracy, but Romani women and others continued to be misled by health care workers into unwittingly signing consent forms to sterilization while in labor prior to the Cesarean delivery of children – or in some cases were never even informed that they had been sterilized after their children were delivered. For those who were informed they could never conceive again, some received the false excuse that the sterilization itself had been a “life-saving” procedure.

The Czech Republic’s first-ever ombudsman collected more than 80 testimonies regarding these sterilizations in 2004 for which the “consent” had been invalid and asked the Health Ministry for an explanation of the cases. In 2005 he published his Final Statement assessing the ministry’s response and recommended that the victims be compensated (the ministry failed to see most of the violations that the ombudsman clearly saw). In 2009, the Czech Government expressed regret for what it called “individual failures” in this regard. In the year 2012, legislation governing the performance of sterilizations was improved to require a grace period between when patients request such a procedure and its actual performance in an effort to prevent such violations.

The ombudsman’s 2005 report describes the communist-era experience of one such Romani woman as follows:

“Mrs. G stated … that she was sterilized in 1979 in a Most hospital. Nobody … justified the need for the intervention to her. A social worker had been retaining her child allowance for two-and-a-half years until she would undergo sterilization. In the hospital she had been told that she would no longer be able to have children. She had signed a paper, as she had had to. Mrs. G stated that she found both writing and reading difficult. She had been promised CSK 2 000 for the intervention, which had later actually been paid.”

As an activist and ally who has assisted the advocacy for this compensation since 2004, I have the privilege today of being a member of a closed group on social media where both Romani and non-Romani women who were sterilized without their informed choice and consent have been meeting to share information about what happened to them, about the fight for compensation, and more recently about their experience of applying for compensation. Some of the women today live abroad, and the social media platform is an excellent way for us all to communicate, especially during the pandemic. The following testimonies were more recently elicited from the members of that group on the condition that their anonymity would be respected.

“I was sterilized in 1989 in Kraslice [Czechoslovakia] at the age of 33.  I still cannot accept that they did this to me.”

I was 20 years old when they sterilized me during Caesarean delivery in 1995 in Bohumín. I did not know they had sterilized me, I was not informed about it until 2005, when I could not understand why I was not conceiving and the doctors finally explained what had been done to me. I have never reconciled myself to it. To this day I visit a psychiatrist and take antidepressants to cope. I would like to try assisted reproduction but we cannot afford it.

Victim of sterilization, identity not revealed

“I was 23 in 1998 when they sterilized me during the Caesarean delivery of my son. He died eight days later, a terrible death, of a heart defect. To this day I ask myself why they sterilized me. Later I read an article about assisted reproduction, so my husband and I tried it and it worked. Today my son is almost 20 and he is healthy, praise God. Even so, I don’t know why they sterilized me.”

As of 1 January, victims of unlawful sterilizations in the Czech Republic can apply for compensation worth CZK 300 000 [EUR 12 000] from the Czech Health Ministry. Sadly, many of the women first targeted by this practice passed away without ever being compensated, although some did live to see the Government’s apology in 2009.

It is Romani women in particular and their allies who achieved the adoption of the compensation procedure. The law establishes that victims who were offered financial incentives before 1990 for undergoing the procedure are to be considered eligible for compensation, although they must still individually apply. Those sterilized after 1990 are asked to describe what happened to them in detail and to support their claims to the best of their ability. Unfortunately, in practice the process has been far from fair or straightforward.

The law has been in effect for more than half a year now, and more than 300 people have applied for compensation. So far, about 80 have been awarded it. The law requires an initial decision be made within 60 days, but as of this writing, some women who filed their applications in January have yet to receive a decision.

Failure to meet this prescribed deadline is just one problem with the execution of this law; while the legislation is meant to compensate victims to whom this happened between 1966 and 2012, the Czech Health Ministry so far has failed to recognize any evidence of these harms other than the original medical records of the procedure.

For many applicants, their medical records have either become damaged through unpredictable events such as natural or other disasters or have been officially shredded, and in some cases they have even been shredded unlawfully. The ministry does not want to acknowledge applicants’ eligibility in such cases. Advocates for the victims disagree with this approach, because in the beginning of our negotiations with the ministry about this law, ministerial representatives expressed a willingness to be flexible which has since disappeared. The ministry has always known, after all, that much of the evidence of the sterilizations having been performed has already been destroyed and that this is not the applicants’ fault. We had hoped the ministry would be able to somehow work with confirmations that the documentation of these victims’ procedures had been shredded and with other supporting evidence.

As members of civil society, together with many allies, we sent an open letter to the Health Minister calling on him to resolve these two problems first and foremost – the failure to meet the legally prescribed deadline for decisions, and the failure to accept other kinds of evidence that the sterilizations happened without the patient’s informed consent.

The ministry’s response to our letter was to reject our proposals and refuse to change their modus operandi. That means the only thing left is for these applicants to sue.

The following story illustrates how the ministry is deciding these cases. One application was rejected even though the woman did provide her medical records of her sterilization in 1979 at a hospital that no longer exists. She had long held onto copies of her medical records but the originals no longer exist, because they were shredded after 40 years as required by law. In its decision, the ministry says it cannot know whether something is or is not missing from the copies of the medical records she has submitted, and that therefore they cannot be considered sufficient evidence.

The ministry, therefore, is indirectly accusing this applicant of deceptively manipulating the evidence she is providing. Such an approach harms applicants and insults their dignity. Her appeal to the Health Minister was unfortunately rejected, so she will have to continue to seek compensation through the courts, a process that is always arduous, costly, and protracted.

Since 2006, Romani women and others have been represented at home and abroad in this fight by the very brave and determined Elena Gorolová, who today is working to assist her fellow survivors of these abuses with applying for compensation. I would like to close with a quote from her:

I see this compensation… as more of a gesture, naturally it will never restore our ability to conceive children. Today the women who survived this are already older, they are not in good health[…] For us, this was not just about the money, though. Personally I am still coping with what was done to me to this day.

Elena Gorolová

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) included Elena Gorolová among the world’s 100 most inspiring women in 2018, and for her efforts to compensate the victims of illegal sterilizations she was also given the Alice Garrigue Masaryk Human Rights Award by the Embassy of the United States of America to the Czech Republic in December 2021 along with myself and, Monika Šimůnková, who has served as Government Human Rights Commissioner and as Deputy Public Defender of Rights. 

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Webinar: Roma and Memorialization: Advancing Recognition and Remedy for the Dark Chapters of the Past and their Impact on the Present

Webinar: Roma and Memorialization: Advancing Recognition and Remedy for the Dark Chapters of the Past and their Impact on the Present

Hybrid Stocktaking International Roundtable on 15 September 2022 (Geneva / online)
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This international stocktaking roundtable invites us to examine the current state of recognition of the dark chapters of history related to antigypsyism. The event will explore how the legacies of this historically-rooted structural form of racism against Roma are impeding the right to know and the right to truth and justice.

The UN Human Rights Office Indigenous Peoples and Minorities Section (OHCHR IPMS), in collaboration with the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues,  the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, and the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance together with the CEPS-led project CHACHIPEN, World Council of Churches (WCC), Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, ERIAC,  and other civil society partners will hold an international stocktaking roundtable on 15 September 2022. The event is slated to take place in Geneva. We invite you to register for an online meeting/webinar format. 

This international stocktaking roundtable invites us to examine the current state of recognition of the dark chapters of history related to ‘anti-Gypsyism’ or ‘antigypsyism’. The event will explore how the legacies of this historically-rooted structural form of racism against Roma are impeding the right to know and the right to truth and justice.

The initiative brings together UN entities and special rapporteurs, civil society groups and coalitions, academics and representatives of Government to examine the state-of-play of Roma and memorialization, and to map steps forward for progress in this area.

 

Featured speakers:

  • E. Tendayi Achiume, UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
  • Fabian Salvioli, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
  • Fernand de Varennes, UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues
  • Ismael Cortes, Member of Parliament, Spain/ / CHACHIPEN Advisory board member
  • Iulius Rostas, CHACHIPEN researcher, former Chair of Romani Studies at Central European University
  • Julissa Mantilla, Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
  • Rita Izsak-Ndiaye, OSCE Personal Representative on Children and Security, former UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues and former member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  • Soraya Post, Councilor, City of Gothenburg, Sweden and former MEP/ CHACHIPEN Advisory board member
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Considering the Swedish Commission against Antiziganism 2014-2016

Considering the Swedish Commission against Antiziganism 2014-2016

National Research Report by Jan Selling
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Experiences, lessons learned and recommendations considering the Swedish Commission against Antiziganism 2014-2016. Chachipen has produced four country reports that provide the evidence and baseline for the calls for a larger debate on transitional justice.

At the European level, the Swedish Commission against Antiziganism (the Commission) has frequently been cited as a promising example in discussions around truth and reconciliation processes (TRPs) concerning Roma and policies against antigypsyism . Jan Selling, the author of this report, puts the Commission into context and analyses its impacts and limitations, based on desk research and interviews with key Romani and non-Romani actors.

In the authors view, the Commission was successful in agenda-setting during its mandate, and it evidently contributed to establishing the concept of antigypsyism in official language. Other impacts were that the process leading to the ongoing Sami truth commission was inspired by – and learned from – the mistakes of the corresponding Roma process. Also, the German Bundestag Commission on antigypsyism benefited from the Swedish experience. Yet, there is widespread frustration that the Swedish Commission did not have a lasting effect due to lack of time, resources and political will. Several interviewees also stressed that lack of independence was a major weakness.

The Commission came to suffer from the same problems as many other Roma policy measures: the impact weakens if projects are short-lived and without a clear successor. In this case, the Commission leant too heavily on the goodwill of one individual minister, and a change in political leadership left its results hanging in the air.

The Commission’s recommendations have not been followed up in a comprehensive way. For example, Roma are still waiting for an official apology from the state; there is still no comprehensive strategy against antigypsyism; and the idea of empowering Roma through a permanent secretariat has been dropped.

As Roma in Sweden have no non-governmental organisations (NGOs) of comparable strength to the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, for instance, the power disadvantage identified by the Delegation persists. This report also confirms the conclusions of international studies, which state that the Swedish model of consultation with Roma representatives is not functioning well: Roma are rarely involved in decisions, but rather cited as alibis.

Antigypsyism in Sweden is still less questioned and seen as more acceptable than other forms of racism, in terms of both hate crime and structural racism. Up to now, Sweden has ignored demands to upgrade the national Roma inclusion strategy in accordance with the new EU framework for National Roma Integration Strategies (NRIS), which prescribes a paradigmatic shift in focus: from a one-sided focus on Roma as the problem towards a holistic approach to antigypsyism.

Jan Selling offers an important conclusion, that Roma ownership of a TRP presupposes powerful, dedicated and knowledgeable allies in the state who are dedicated to ensuring meaningful participation, but also careful planning of Roma civil society structures.

You can access the report here.

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Truth and Reconciliation Process to Address Antigypsyism in Europe

This Brief presents and summarizes the key findings and policy recommendations based on the four CHACHIPEN Country Reports covering Germany, Romania, Sweden, and Spain. It highlights commonalities and differences between these EU member states, draws lessons learned, and makes recommendations for future EU policy interventions. This Brief also takes into account the key findings resulting from the Strategic Visioning Exercise that took place on 23 June 2022 as part of the CHACHIPEN project.

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Antigypsyism in Romania: Lessons (not) learned

This paper represents an analysis of antigypsyism in Romania. It is part of the
CHACHIPEN project, advancing the recognition of, and response to, antigypsyism to
achieve justice, equality, non-discrimination, and the full participation of Roma as
equal citizens across Europe.

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ROMA ADVOCACY HANDBOOK

The handbook builds on the previous and ongoing work of project partners and combines practical and theoretical knowledge, academic research, training practices, available legal instruments and field work.

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Transitional Justice for Roma in Europe

Transitional Justice for Roma in Europe

State of the Art Report (May 2022), by Rostas, Vosyliūtė and Kalotay
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The Chachipen project has produced this State of the Art Report, along with four country reports providing the evidence and baseline for calls for a larger debate on transitional justice with Roma communities, civil society, external scholars and national and EU policy makers, as well as with regional and international human rights bodies.

In this State of the Art Report, Dr. Iulius Rostas, Lina Vosyliute and Marton Kalotay, provide a historical perspective of antigypsyism and the ways in which it continues to impact the delivery of equality, non-discrimination and justice for Roma in Europe. We explore standards applicable to Truth and Reconciliation Processes (TRPs) and other transitional justice-like tools. They further question to what extent and under what conditions various transitional justice tools addressing historical antigypsyism are capable of delivering justice, equality and inclusion of Roma in European societies.

They map existing literature on antigypsyism – what have been the gravest manifestations of antigypsyism in Europe?  Then, they explore the right to know, the right to the truth and the right to justice as the moral foundations for addressing structural injustice.

Instead of conclusions, they open more questions to be explored, considering how transitional justice tools have been used in Europe and elsewhere. What lessons have been learned? And how can these tools be used by Roma and pro-Roma rights activists as a way to address the historically rooted antigypsyism in Europe?

You can access the report here.

 

 

 

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achieve justice, equality, non-discrimination, and the full participation of Roma as
equal citizens across Europe.

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Dimensions of Antigypsyism in Europe

A new book ‘Dimensions of Antigypsyism in Europe’, edited by Ismael Cortés and Markus End, published by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) and the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, sheds light on the complex and different dimensions of this specific form of structural racism in Europe.

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Documents by Civil Society & Academia

Documents by Civil Society & Academia

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Documents of civil society and academia related to 'combating antigypsyism' and related to the Reference Paper on Antigypsyism.

Thomas Acton: Scientific racism, popular racism and the discourse of the Gypsy Lore Society. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39 (7), pp. 1187 – 1204. 2016

Jan Jařab, “Eight circles of anti-Gypsyism“, 2015

Markus End: Antigypsyism in the German Public Sphere. Strategies and Mechanisms of Media Communication”. Heidelberg: Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma, 2015.

Huub van Baar, ‘The Emergence of a Reasonable Anti-Gypsyism in Europe.’ In: Timofey Agarin, ed., When Stereotype Meets Prejudice: Antiziganism in European Societies. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2014

Martin Holler, ‘Historical Predecessors of the term ‘Anti-Gypsyism’.’ In: Jan Selling, Markus End, Hristo Kyuchukov, Pia Laskar and Bill Templer, eds., “Antiziganism. What’s in a Word? Proceedings from the Uppsala International Conference on the Discrimination, Marginalization and Persecution of Roma, 23-25 October 2013”, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 82 – 92., 2014

Central Council for German Sinti and Roma, “Antigypsyism in public discourses and election campaigns“, 2017

Center for European Policy Studies, “Combating Institutional Anti-Gypsyism: Responses and promising practices in the EU and selected Member States”, 2017

The Roma civil monitor pilot project, “A synthesis of civil society’s reports on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies in the European Union”, 2018

Valeriu Nicolae: ‘Towards a Definition of Anti-Gypsyism”, ERGO Network, 2006.

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Documents of Council of Europe structures related to 'combating antigypsyism' and related to the Reference Paper on Antigypsyism.

Ad Hoc Committee of Experts on Roma Issues  (CAHROM), “Thematic report on combating anti-gypsyism, hate speech and hate crime against Roma”, 2013

ECRI General Policy Recommendation No. 13 on combating anti-gypsyism and discriminiation and Roma, 2011

PACE Resolution: “Promotion the Inclusion of Roma and Travellers”, 2017

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EU directives

European Union Race Equality Directive, 2000

European Union EU Framework Decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law, 2008

EU Council

EU Council recommendation on effective Roma integration measures in the member states. Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council Meeting, Brussels, 9 and 10 December 2013.

 

European Commission

European Commission Roadmap: Initiative setting out the EU post-2020 Roma equality and inclusion policy, 2020

European Commission COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL “Report on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies“, 2019

European Commission, “COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL Report on the evaluation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020”, 2018

European Commission, “Evaluation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020 – Accompanying the document COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL – Report on the evaluation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020”, 2018

European Commission, EU High Level Group on combating racism, xenophobia  and other forms of intolerance, “Antigypsyism: Increasing its Recognition to Better Understand and Address its Manifestations”, 2018

European Commission ‘Report on the implementation of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies’

European Commission, “COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION: An EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020”, 2011

European Commission, Non-discrimination and equal opportunities: A renewed commitment. Community Instruments and Policies for Roma Inclusion. Commission Staff Working Paper, 2008

European Parliament

European Parliament, “Motion for a resolution on the need for a strengthened post-2020 Strategic EU Framework for National Roma Inclusion Strategies and stepping up the fight against anti-Gypsyism”, 2019

European Parliament, “Scaling up Roma Inclusion Strategies; Truth, reconciliation and justice for addressing antigypsyism”, 2019

European Parliament, “Fundamental rights aspects in Roma integration in the EU: fighting anti-Gypsyism”, 2017

European Parliament Resolution: International Roma Day – anti-Gypsyism in Europe and EU recognition of the memorial day of the Roma genocide during WW II. European Parliament resolution of 15 April 2015

Roma in the European Union. European Parliament resolution on the situation of the Roma in the European Union, 2005.

The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament: “Countering Antigypsyism in Europe“, 2017

S&D Group in the European Parliament: The Milestones in our fight against anti-gypsyism, 2018

Fundamental Rights Agency

Fundamental Rights Agency, “A persisting concern: anti-Gypsyism as a barrier to Roma inclusion”, 2018

EU Presidencies

Austrian EU Presidency – Conference on antigypsyism: expert recommendations: “How to address antigypsyism in a Post 2020 EU Roma Framework”, 2018

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Documents of the Alliance against Antigypsyism

Documents of the Alliance against Antigypsyism

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Bibliography of the Alliance against Antigypsyism related to the Reference Paper on Antigypsyism.

Alliance against Antigypsyism, 2016: Reference Paper on Antigypsyism

Cortés, Ismael/End, Markus (eds.), 2019: Dimensions of Antigypsyism in Europe. Published by European Network Against Racism (ENAR) and the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma

Alliance against Antigypsyism, 2019: Combating antigypsyism in the post-2020 EU Roma Framework: Policy Recommendations. 

Alliance against Antigypsyism, 2019: Developing measures to combat antigypsyism after 2020: Guidance for European and national stakeholders

Alliance against Antigypsyism, 2020: Towards a EU post-2020 Roma equality and inclusion policy

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