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ROMANIA: Looking to Rome to Escape the Roma

                   
ipsnews.net
Jul 22, 2008
        
Story Timeline:  83 days

By Claudia Ciobanu BUCHAREST, Jul 22 (IPS) - A decision by Italian authorities to fingerprint nomads -- mostly Roma -- is supported by many Romanians, in spite of statements from Romanian officials condemning the measure as discriminatory. According to Italian human rights organisation Opera Nomadi, approximately 160,000 Roma currently live in Italy. Most of them inhabit improvised camps on the outskirts of towns. Roughly 60,000 come from Romania, which has Europe's largest Roma community, numbering close to 2.5 million in a population of 22 million. The Roma are believed to have migrated to Europe from India since the 14th century. Following several highly publicised reports of Roma, often from Romania, committing crimes in Italy, the Italian centre-right government declared a one-year state of emergency May 21 in relation... [read full story]                    

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The picture that shames Italy

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Jul 24, 2008
        

By Peter Popham in Rome It's another balmy weekend on the beach in Naples. By the rocks, a couple soak up the southern Italian sun. A few metres away, their feet poking from under beach towels that cover their faces and bodies,...

                   

Roma Discrimination Continues

deviousdiva.com
Jul 24, 2008
        

I have been putting off writing this post for days now. I don’t know how many of you have been following events in Italy involving the Roma community there, but the whole issue is becoming increasingly disturbing. I have...

                   

Shocking Indifference to Roma Drowning

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Jul 24, 2008
        

Shocking Indifference to Roma Drowning http://news.aol.com/article/shocking...drowning/94412 Wow, serious lack of respect. How anybody could just continue sunbathing around two kids' bodies is beyond me. "HELLO, yeah I'm at the...

Italy to scale back Roma fingerprinting plan

pitt.edu
Jul 23, 2008
        

JURIST] Italy will rework plans to fingerprint the country's Roma minority [JURIST news archive], altering requirements to only include those who do not have valid identification cards, the country's Interior Ministry announced...

                   

Rome census reveals the hopes and fears of gypsies (AFP)

yahoo.com
Jul 23, 2008
        

AFP - Italy's policy towards immigrants -- notably ethnic Romanians, many of them Roma -- has come under intense scrutiny since Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said last month that security forces would fingerprint gypsies.

                   

ITALY - SPECIAL REPORT: Roma community in Italy is worried about census

france24.com
Jul 22, 2008
        

Roma community in Italy is worried about census FRANCE 24's special correspondent Alexis Masciarelli brings us rarely-seen images from the heart of an illegal Roma camp in Italy. The Red Cross is conducting a census there,...

                   

ITALY - SPECIAL REPORT: Inside a Roma community

france24.com
Jul 22, 2008
        

FRANCE 24's special correspondent Alexis Masciarelli brings us rarely-seen images from the heart of an illegal Roma camp in Italy. The Red Cross is conducting a census there, worrying the inhabitants. By AFP (wire) / Alexis...