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EUROPE AND THE GREEN TRANSITION

Author: Siena Fam

THE EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL The European Green Deal seeks to make Europe the first continent to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, reduce emissions (harmful gases released into the air) by at least 50–55% by 2030, and 90% by...

WHAT IS THE GREEN TRANSITION?

Author: Siena Fam

WHY THE GREEN TRANSITION? The Green Transition is essential to combat climate change, halt the loss of biodiversity, the rapid decline in the variety of plants and animals on Earth, and move away from an unsustainable, resource-heavy economy towards...

GREEN PRACTICES IN ROMA KNOWLEDGE

Author: Siena Fam

ROMA KNOWLEDGE Through storytelling, showing how to do things, or teaching skills and values directly, older generations share generational and traditional knowledge. This helps pass on important life lessons, cultural heritage, and...

THE BOYASH LANGUAGE FROM LINGUISTIC AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES

Author: Anna Krainova

The Boyash are one of the Roma communities dispersed throughout Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, smaller number of them live in Macedonia, Greece, Ukraine, Slovakia and Slovenia. People belonging to the Boyash...

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...

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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...

JASENOVAC AND THE GENOCIDE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

Author: Maura Madeddu

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...