Negotin, Serbia/TimocPress - The Week Against Racism on March 14th to 21st in Negotin have started talks and preparations for marking of the International Day for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
In memory of the 69 people who protested against the racist policy of apartheid and therefore killed March 21st 1960 in the South African city Sharpville, the General Assembly of the Council of Europe (1966) has decided that March 21st each year is designated as International Day for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
In the small hall of the Municipal Assembly on Monday March 21st 2011 in Negotin, from 11 to 12h, at a press conference will speak the representatives of:
- Municipalities Negotin
- Working body for gender equality of Negotin
- Member of the Municipal Council of Negotin
- Human Rights Negotin
Network Committee for Human Rights in Serbia CHRIS through the existence of local offices (in Novi Sad, Valjevo, Nis, Novi Pazar and Negotin), mark the International Day for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination with the slogan RESPECT DIVERSITY ERADICATE DISCRIMINATION!
At Djordje Stanojevic Square on Monday March 21st 2011, from 12 to 14h, in the realisation of the Committee for Human Rights Negotin, will be distributed printed educational and promotional materials (Calendar with 12 winners of the fight against discrimination and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Law on Prohibition …), and in direct contact with citizens to remind us of the fact that we all have to fight for human rights and the principle of equality.
Action is being implemented under the project entitled “Human rights for all”, supported by the Fund for Open Society in Belgrade.
Source: www.TimocPress.info/en
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vineri, 11 februarie 2011
Please see attached the brochure of the “Play it right” project
For the brochure of the “Play it right” project click here !
Gypsy or Rroma minority in Europe want to change their name again and they want to call themselves as “INDIROMA” minority
Gypsy or Rroma minority in Europe want to change their name again and they want to call themselves as “INDIROMA” minority
The Rroma minority that lives in many European countries are called like Cigano, Gitan, Gitanos, Gypsies, Zingaro, Zigeuner, Tsigan, Cigan, Ţigan or Rroma with one or two “r”.After the change of name from “Gypsy” to “Rroma” at the beginning of the 90’, now, more and more people propose other changes. For instance, the representative of the Rroma (Gypsy) population into the Parliamnet of Romania, Nicolae Paun proposed that the names “Gypsy” or “Rroma” should be abandoned and “Gypsy” population should adopt the name “Indiroma”.
That rationale is based on the fact that the Gypsy population is originated from India and this term “Indirom/Indiroma” would be more appropriate for a correct understanding of their culture and origin.
Details: http://www.tolerance.ro/
Romanian Senate rejects ‘Roma’ word change and the return to ‘Gypsy’ in official documents
Romanian Senate rejects ‘Roma’ word change and the return to ‘Gypsy’ in official documents
Although the Senate committees approved replacing the term ‘Roma’ with ‘Gipsy’, the senators rejected a draft bill proposed by the Democrat-Liberal Deputy Silviu Prigoana, under which the word “Roma” would be changed and return to the word “Gypsy” in official documents.The majority of the senators who took the floor, both from among the ruling coalition and the opposition, stood against the document of Prigoana.
Law Commission Chairman Toni Grebla considered that the ethnic denomination in question cannot be decreed as such, given its members bear their historically inherited name anyway. Grebla said that the matter at stake is rooted in the 1990s law under which the word “gypsy” was changed into “Roma”.
Source: http://www.tolerance.ro/
joi, 10 februarie 2011
Proud to be Roma: Roma-Hungarian MEP Lívia Járóka on the need for a European strategy
Due to the fact that as many as 12 million European Roma continue to face segregation and intergenerational poverty throughout the EU, the Union is searching for European-wide solutions. With a European Roma Strategy being a priority for the Hungarian EU Presidency, we talked to Lívia Járóka (EPP), the only Roma member of European Parliament. The 36-year old Hungarian MEP has prepared a report on the strategy that would allow Europe to use the untapped potential of the Roma people.Details: http://www.europarl.europa.eu
duminică, 6 februarie 2011
Encouraged by Moscow, Rusins Step Up Drive for Autonomy and Threaten Kyiv with Armed Revolt
Encouraged by Moscow, Rusins Step Up Drive for Autonomy and Threaten Kyiv with Armed Revolt
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| Dmitry Sidor |
Only weeks after Russia’s consul general in Lviv called him the “Moses” of his people, Dmitry Sidor, an Uzhgorod priest loyal to Moscow who heads the Rusin movement in Transcarpathia, declared this week that “after many years” of using only political tactics, the Rusins are now prepared to “defend their freedom with arms in their hands.”
How seriously this threat should be taken is an open question. On the one hand, the Rusins have made similar threats before, most notably at the end of 2008. And on the other, an actual revolt as opposed to the threat of one would complicate Russian-Ukrainian relations and threaten Moscow’s oil and gas exports to Europe, much of which flows via Transcarpathia.
But however that may be, Sidor’s remark, especially coming in the wake of the comment of the Russian diplomat, seems intended both to remind the Ukrainian authorities that the Rusins have not gone away and to send a message to Kyiv that Moscow is paying attention to that community and is prepared to exploit that group if Ukraine does not bend to Russia’s will.
Yesterday, Sidorov said that the Rusins “are accusing Kyiv of ethnocide and discrimination with obvious elements of genocide” because of Ukraine’s “barbaric” failure to recognize the Rusins and “its ban on Rusin schools and the study of the Rusin language” (vvnews.info/analytics/region/65736-rusiny-zakarpatya-gotovy-k-voyne-s-ukrainoy.html).
If Ukraine and the new authorities will be able to recognize the rights of Rusins,” he continued, “then we Rusins are ready to remain a Ukrainian enclave, a Ukrainian Kaliningrad.” But if Ukraine won’t recognize “our lawfrul status of autonomy,” then “we will peacefully divorce. Like the Czech Republic from Slovakia.”
That can take place peacefully, the priest said. But “international law” allows for a solution brought about by force. “A people after many years of seeking its rights,” he said, “has the right with arms in its hands to defend its freedom,” just as the international community recognized in the case of the Croatians.
Sidor says that “we do not intend to fight and seek a diplomatic path because we believe in the reality of the achievement of our rights.” “At a minimum,” 70 percent of the residents of Transcarpathia are Rusins, making them “’a titular nation’” numbering today “approximately 800,000.”
Two years ago, when he and the Rusins made similar declarations and asked that Moscow recognize their independence, the Ukrainian authorities opened a case against Sidorov for threatening the territorial independence of the country. But since that time, two things have changed.
There is now a pro-Moscow government in Kyiv, and last fall Russia’s consul general in Lviv met with Sidorov and compared him to Moses because, he said, the Rusin priest is leading his people out of the wilderness (ru.tsn.ua/ukrayina/genkonsul-rf-nazval-lidera-podkarpatskih-rusinov-novym-moiseem.html).
Almost exactly two years ago, the Rusins asked Moscow to recognize them as an independent country because Kyiv was ignoring their demands for autonomy within Ukraine. That followed the Second European Congress of Rusins in Mukhachevo, which declared that the Rusins would seek independence on December 1st if they didn’t get autonomy.
December 1 came and went, but on December 19, an international scientific practical conference on “Genocide and Cultural Ethnocide of the Rusins of Carpathian Rus (the end of the 19th Century to the Beginning of the 21st Century)” assembled in Rostov-na-Donu and adopted a resolution on their cause.
Among the resolution’s key points was an insistence that alongside the Armenians, the Rusins – or Ruthenians, as they are also known -- were the victims of the first genocide of the 20th century, one carried out by the Austro-Hungarians. Today, the resolution continued, Kyiv is extending this through “a policy of cultural ethnocide.”
In addition, that document declared that the Ruthenians are recognized as a unique people in all countries of the region except Ukraine and that they enjoy the support of international organizations like the UN whose committee on the liquidation of racial discrimination in August 2006 criticized Kyiv for not supporting them.
And it pointed out that the status of the Transcarpathian Rusins has not yet been defined – Kyiv has not yet recognized the 1946 treaty which incorporated them into the Soviet Union – and that the Ukrainian government continues to ignore the December 1991 referendum in which the Rusins voted for autonomy as well as for Ukrainian independence.
But perhaps most important, Rusin leaders then and now noted that “the lion’s share” of Russian gas on its way to European markets flows through Subcarpathian Rus, “twice more than through the Baltic states [in 2008] and twice more than through other neighboring countries” as well.
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