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THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS: HISTORY AND LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

Author: Maura Madeddu

In the years after the end of the Second World War, the international community stood united for a common and overarching goal, despite the competing ideological views of the USA and Soviet Union. This goal was to create an international system of...

HOW ROMANI MOVEMENT TO THE WEST CHANGED THEIR LANGUAGE

Author: Anna Krainova

There is an opinion among linguists that a language reflects the history of its speakers. For example, by studying borrowed words and grammatical forms, it is possible to determine with which peoples the speakers of a language had cultural and...

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SPECIAL CLASSES FOR ROMA CHILDREN IN ITALY: THE STORY OF THE ‘LACIO DROM’ PROJECT

Author: Maura Madeddu

In 1965 the economy in Italy was booming, the country had already started learning the dynamics of being a democracy and a republic, and everybody was working hard to leave the destruction and brutalities of the Second World War and of fascism...

A MEMORIAL IN JASENOVAC

Unfortunately, people don't talk about the genocide of the Roma very often, which is why many people don't know about it at all. During the Second World War, the Ustasha, collaborators of the Nazis, killed the vast majority of Roma in the territories...

HOW INTERNATIONAL LAW REGULATES GENOCIDE

Author: Maura Madeddu

29. 7. 2025.

The horrors of the Second World War resulted in the murder of millions of people in concentration camps by the Nazis, together with the Italian Fascist forces led by Benito Mussolini and other various collaborationist groups and governments that...

WHEN HATRED PERMEATES SOCIETY: COUNTERING HATE SPEECH

Author: Maura Madeddu

For several decades now, both experts and general readers have been exposed to a recurrent usage of specific words meant to try to describe in a more detailed and comprehensive manner phenomena related to hate. Some of these concepts are not new at...

SEARCH FOR THE ROMANI PROTO-LANGUAGE

Author: Anna Krainova

Establishing the origins of a language is important not only from a linguistic point of view, but also allows us to better understand the history of its speakers. Language reconstruction also provides insights about ancient cultures, societies,...

DISCOVERING THE ORIGINS OF THE ROMA PRESENCE IN ITALY

Author: Maura Madeddu

The early days of the first Roma groups in Italy are, unfortunately, scarcely documented, similarly to what happens for migratory flows directed towards the countries we today know as France, Germany, and Spain. All the few available sources rely on...

WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT ROMA IN ITALY BY LOOKING AT ITALIAN SURNAMES?

Author: Maura Madeddu

30. 6. 2025.

Unveiling the history of Roma people is a tough challenge for academics in every field: from history to sociology, from genetics to linguistics, understanding where Roma come from and when their migration started is still an open question that...

AN OVERVIEW OF THE 5th ECRI REPORT ON TURKEY

Author: Deniz Lal Seçgin

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), a body of the Council of Europe, monitors and evaluates racism, discrimination, and intolerance across European countries. In its Fifth Report on Turkey, published in 2016, ECRI assesses...