Despite being Europe’s largest and fastest growing minority, the Roma (pejoratively known as Gypsies) have been and continue to be misrepresented, mythologized, scapegoated and persecuted across the continent, and around the world. The Roma Rights Network wants to bring attention to plight of the Roma and spread the truth about these culturally rich, diverse, and resilient people.
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Roma Rights Map
The Roma Rights Map provides information on countries in Europe and elsewhere where Roma represent a significant minority. The map doesn’t represent a complete catalog of Human Rights abuses of the Roma. It is meant to provide a quick summary of some of the major abuses taking place in some of the countries in Europe.
Xenophoblog
When your done here please also visit our sister site, the Xenohpoblog. Xenophobia is an irrational, deep-rooted fear of or antipathy towards foreigners. The Xenophoblog provides news, information and resources on the ever-growing xenophobia crisis and related issues.
Welcome to the RRN
The aim of the Roma Rights Network is to raise awareness of the Roma and the issues affecting them through the dissemination of timely and useful information, targeting regions and peoples not normally targeted, and using tools and strategies not yet extensively implemented in the Roma rights community. This will be achieved through providing a crucial supplement to the mainstream commercial media representations of the Roma via in-depth analysis and comprehensive aggregation of Roma-related news, documenting abuses, and facilitation of information.
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Poverty forces Roma to leave
Europe's Roma communities, at the centre of an immigration row in France, are often driven out by poverty from their homes in Romania and Bulgaria,
Posted on August 27, 2010 -
Citizen expulsion policy proposed
Subsequent to the French government's expulsion of 79 Roma to Romania, the Italian interior minister announced to raise a proposal for the mandatory expulsion of
Posted on August 24, 2010 -
Q&A: France Roma expulsions
France is planning to deport 700 foreign Roma (Gypsies) as part of a crackdown on illegal camps in the country by the end of August.
Posted on August 23, 2010 -
Sarkozy Finds a Scapegoat
Hardliners in France have been busy this summer. Already, authorities have shut down dozens of Roma camps in the country and they began deporting the
Posted on August 22, 2010 -
EU washes hands of Roma expulsions
The European Commission on Thursday said it is up to member states to decide whether they expel Roma people, but only on an individual basis
Posted on July 31, 2010 -
Poverty pushes Roma into crime in Hungary
Approximately a million Roma live in Hungary, a tenth of the country’s total population. Almost 90% of them are reported to be unemployed, making it
Posted on July 13, 2010
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The Roma Rights Network was developed and is maintained by Scott Elliott, a university student in Vancouver, Canada. 
