A site devoted to Rroma, their culture, traditions, history, and current issues
All reports presented here are strictly copyrighter to the Rroma Foundation Zürich. These reports were compiled by our staff while on surveys in various countries.
They all can be downloaded in pdf form under downloads.
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December 2008: This report highlights the difficulties encountered by returning refugees in Kosovo. In this particular case, we followed on refugee who was forcefully returned to Kosovo from…
November 2008: The situation of Rroma in Kosovo after the independence has been the subject of many debates. This report analyses the current situation, the prospects, and the future of this minority…
July/August 2008: During the summer, one member of the foundation went and visited the by now famed Rroma camps around some of the biggest Italian cities. This report, in German, is the result of…
July 2008. One of the oldest Rroma settlements in Europe, the Sulukule neighbourhood in Istanbul is being destroyed and its inhabitants are forced to move outside of the city, in a new settlement…
June 2006. This report is the result of an extensive survey in Kosovo in the spring of 2006 by the staff of the Rroma Foundation. It shows the still difficult situation of Rroma in this region and…
February 2005.This report was done after a visit of our staff in Kosovo in the beginning of 2005. It shows the continuing difficult situation that Rroma face in that region as well as the continuing…
January 2005.One Rroma Family in Switzerland has repeatedly made the press headlines. Either stealing, begging, stabbing, in brief all calamities concentrated within one family. But is this the…
February 2003.The situation of Rroma in South Serbia is often forgotten. But they are subjected increasingly to discriminations and difficulties which, in part can be traced back to the Kosovo…
October 2002.This paper is an update of the current situation of Rroma in former Yugoslavia. It was presented at a conference in Germany in October 2002 and gives an overview of the challenges and…
April 2002.After the Kosovo conflict, many of the official acts that proved the existence and property of Rroma in that region were either destroyed or vanished. As a result, it is often impossible…
October 2001.In the Balkan conflicts, rapes have been used as a weapon of ethnic cleansing. In addition, especially in Kosovo and Albania, one now encouters selected abductions of Rroma girls who are…
April 2000.Who, in the last few days, months or years, has not heard of the wealth of names associated to a seemingly simple concept, namely that of a Gypsy, or rather, in the Kosovar terminology, a…
March 2001.The situation in Kosovo, and the continuing ethnic cleansing have resulted in many Rroma leaving the region. However, their plight is neither well documented, nor even acknowledged by most…
October 2001.The situation of Rroma in Western and Northern Macedonia is quite worrying. This report represents a fist hand account of the actual situation in those regions as well as what happened…
August 2001.Rroma are increasingly the victims of the conflict in Macedonia between Albanians and Slavs. The very same patterns as the ones seen in Kosovo are being re-applied by all involved…
May 2001.The BFF is now assessing the ethnic appurtenance of Rroma refugees in Switzerland via interviews with so-called experts. These interviews are borderline if not outright racist, and the…
August 2000. This report (in German) documents the situation of Rroma in Serbia and the current tensions, threats and aggressions. Rroma are increasingly sidelined, evicted, and even ethnically…
June 2000.The situation of Rroma refugees in Switzerland is undergoing a review and changes. As most Rroma declared themselves as being Albanians when they arrived in Switzerland, they are now being…
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