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ROMA ORIGINS IN GEORGIA

Author: Lizi Bukhrashvili

Most studies agree that the Roma initially came from the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. There are different migratory routes that the Roma people could have taken in order to arrive to Europe. Some theories assume that they took the...

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ROMA IN THE GREEN TRANSITION

Author: Siena Fam

ROMA INTEGRATION PHASE III PROJECT The European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE) have created the "Roma Integration Phase III Project," which runs from 2023 to 2026, to support the Green Transition by combining Roma inclusion, training...

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...