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"I'm proud of my former students, and nearly 80 percent of them have become key persons in the emancipation of Roma (Gypsies) population," says Gheorghe Sarau, inspector for Romani Education.
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The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (ISPMN) marked 20 years of research on Roma in Romania through an international conference.
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The news agencies relate that Herta Muller won the 2009 Nobel Prize for literature. She is a German author of Romanian origin. Her literature is inspired by her life and that of her former community in Romania. Herta Muller was awarded with this prize for the honesty of her prose describing the landscape of being uprooted from her home place.
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The project “A house for the future”, can change something for the Roma in Vinatori, marginalized since the ’80, poor, dirty, not educated, living between garbage, separated from Romanians’ houses.
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The percentage of Romanians with an open attitude toward Roma increased from 43% in 2008 to 56% in 2009, according to an opinion poll made by the National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD).
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Tradition is important for Roma, from calderashes to actors. The ninth edition of the traditional handicrafts’ fair took place in Sibiu.
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The discriminatory at-titude of many Roma-nians toward the Roma is still present, even if the percent-age of those who are intolerant has decreased. The last opinion poll on ethnicity reveals that the collective thinking is still domi-nated by negative images, even if Romanians don’t consider that Roma represent a threatening for the country.
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Between September 4 and 5 in Szeklerland two General Gatherings of the Elected Szeklers were held: The gathering of the mayors and local councilors organized by DAHR and the National Council of the Hungarians from Transylvania.
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The ethnic commu-nities are sporadi-cally promoted by the media, first of all because of commu-nication difficulties between national mi-norities’ representa-tives and journalists.
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Radu Mazare, the mayor of Constanta, is under investiga-tion for using in public fascist sym-bols, after he showed up during a fashion parade in Mamaia dressed as German officer.
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The Hungarian radicals (PCM and CNMT) will support a candidate who will have an offer regard-ing Hungarians’ col-lective rights. This is the condition for supporting Kelemen Hunor for the presidential elections.
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The Press Monitoring Agency (AMP) pro-poses the adoption of an ethical code to eliminate discrimina-tion and hate discourse from the online media.
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During the Romanian Flag Day in Miercurea Ciuc, President Traian Basescu held a speech meant to discourage the autonomy tendency of the Secklers and asked for respect towards the Romanian national celebrations.
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Romanians' repre-sentatives from Ukraine, during the meeting with Romania’s president, accused the politics of de-nationalization practiced by Ukraine toward its ethnic minorities.
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Until coming to Romania she had never heard of Roma. The project “Revealing Romania” was the way through which the journalist Shaina Humphries knew them. After two weeks of investigation, Shaina says that, despite the racist attitude with which they are treated, the Roma do not hate Romanians.
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Until coming to Romania she had never heard of Roma. The project “Revealing Romania” was the way through which the journalist Shaina Humphries knew them. After two weeks of investigation, Shaina says that, de-spite the racist attitude with which they are treated, the Roma do not hate Romanians.
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After 20 years, a change is needed, a broader perspective for presenting the German culture in Romania. This was the main conclusion of the manifestations on the occasion of the Days of German Culture, which recently took place in Satu Mare.
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Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) is asking for a dialogue with the Romanian politicians and society for up-grading the system of autonomies to the level of state organization. The Union believes that the moment has come for recognizing the Hungarian community as constitutive element of the state and the Hungarian language as official language.
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The “parent” of the education for Roma in Romania considers that a minimum of the livelihood should be provided and that education is not enough to change the pauper situation from many of the Roma communities. An interview published by the students’ magazine Infocampus.ro.
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The Hungarians from Romania don’t trust President Traian Basescu anymore. An opinion poll ordered by UDMR, shows that the trust of the Hungarian electorate in the head of the state decreased from 60% last year to 47,1% now.
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Marko Bela, the DAHR President, stated last Friday, on March 27, during a press conference in Tirgu-Mures that he expects to see the decentralization measures promised by the governing parties, implemented.
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Starting with this year Roma children from 90 schools will participate to inter-cultural and extra-curriculum activities meant to improve the quality of learning and access to education within a three years project. By this program is proposed the prevention but also fighting against school abandon.
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Once the celebration of the Day of Hun-garians from every-where, intensified the Romanians’ fear the Hungarians want to transform the Transylvania in “Hungarian land”. The solicitor Tihamér Czika thinks there is no Hungarian danger and the Romanian fear is a result of the political manipulation.
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The Congress of Hungarian Civic Party was scheduled for March 14, at Gheorghieni, and pin-pointed, among others, a year from Party creation and there will be elections for party chairman position.
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The second round of the program “Medical scholarships for Roma. Leadership in health: a generation in health depar-tment” started on March 4. The event reopened the discussion on segregation existing in the sanitary system.
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The UDMR Chairman, Marko Bela and bishop Tokes Laszlo, the leader of NCHT, signed in Tirgu Mures, the agreement for collaboration on euro-parliamentarian elections. The Decision did not bring together all Hungarians from Romania.
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Main Hungarian par-ties in Romania have agreed on creating a list of Hungarian solidarity for Euro-parliamentarian elections, and the reformed bishop Tokes Laszlo will be the first candidate on the list.
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Approximately 2.500 Hungarians coming from Covasna and Harghita protested on Sunday, February 8, against eventual changes from positions of Hungarian directors and asking for respecting the ethnical ratio.
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She is happy among roma. Like home! They accept her and she, in return, learned to accept them as they are. Behind the lenses, Magda Jakab developed an enormous love for Roma and everything connected to their existence.
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In Mures county a few thousands of people claim the discrimination on right to education in Hungarian for stu-dents entering high school. A final decision is to be made public soon.
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The President Traian Basescu appointed the former UDMR Senator Eckstein Kovacs Peter as Presidential Council-or for minorities. The new Councilor declared he wants to offer objective and relevant information to the President.
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The party of ethnic Hungarians in Romania, UDMR, will not join the center-right government of social-democrats and liberals. After 12 consecutive years of being part of governing powers, UDMR is now officially in opposition.
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The Chairman of the Armenian Union, Va-rujan Pambuccian has said that representa-tives of national mi-norities, other than the Hungarian one, will support future Government but do not want position in the Executive.
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UDMR stays as an important political force in Romania after succeeding with an average of 6,7% votes in the parlia-mentarian elections. The law referring to the national minorities, de-centralization and continuation of reform in education and health are the Union objectives for a joint future government program.
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A woman, civic activists, career politicians, quasi-unknown people. This would be the Roma’s offer, candidates on the lists of several parties for the parliamentary elections on Sunday, November 30.
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The European Court for Human Rights has decided that the Law banning the Moldovans with double citizenship from acceding to public positions is limiting the human rights and freedoms.
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From now on, the Moldovan language will no longer be a topic in the American libraries. A decision of the American Li-brary of Congress identified the Moldo-van language as a variant of the Romanian language.
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Approximately 13% of the students who have taken the seats distributed to ethnic Roma chil-dren in high schools and 10% of those in universities are not affiliated to this ethnic group, a study shows.
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Romanian citizen Romulus Mailat was sentenced to 29 years in prison for the murder of Italian Giovanna Reggiani. The risks of a new anti-Romanian hysteria are now lower.
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Tuesday, October 21, was the last day for regis-tration of the candidates for the general elections. The ethnic minorities registered their candidates for November 30, hoping to win their co-nationals’ votes, as well as the votes of Romanians.
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Fundación Secretariado Gitano from Spain shall run in Romania, together with the National Agency for the Roma, the Acceder Program – Together on the Labour Market. Roma foundation shall be represented by Humberto García Gonzáles-Gordon, expert in inter-cultural mediation.
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Ceremonies, sympo-sia, photography ex-hibitions, projections, commemoration cer-emonies in Jewish graveyards, all these were part of the events organized on the occasion of the Holocaust Day in Romania, commemorated every year on the 9th of October.
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At a first sight, they have issues similar to the majority’s issues. And yet, for the eth-nic minorities from the Romanian Banat, just like for the Romanians from Hungary, there is one dilemma: assimilation or maintaining the identity?
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After being systemati-cally postponed, the monument of the Holocaust has now reached the stage where the last steps are taken for receiving the building permit. The sculptural complex shall cover an area of over 2,800 square meters.
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During the debate “The Roma: Life Sto-ries”, held in Ploiesti, the Soros Foundation from Romania ex-pressed their will to start a follow-up of the Program for Integrated Community Development in two Roma communities from the Prahova county.
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Roma, homosexuals and people with AIDS are among the most discriminated groups from Romania, accor-ding to a survey ordered by the Na-tional Council for Combating Discrim-ination (CNCD). Also, the number of petitions related to discrimination cases doubled last year.
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The judges of the High Court of Ca-ssation and Justice issued the final and irrevocable decision that President Tra-ian Basescu discrimi-nated a Roma journalist, but cannot be sanctioned because of the circumstances.
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The discussions bet-ween the Hungarian political forces failed, so the UDMR candidates shall have as competition in the parliamentary elections the independent can-didates supported by the Hungarian Civic Party (UCM/HCP) and by CNMT.
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The Hungarian Civic Party (UCM) declined the offer of the Democrat Union of Hungarians from Romania (UDMR), meant to create an internal coalition. UDMR considers the negotiation as over, but the dialogue continues in view of a potential collaboration with the National Hungarian Council from Transylvania.
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The uninominal vote might not be con-venient for the Romanians living in the counties of Harghita and Covas-na (the so-called Szekler Land, central Romania), who might end up with no representation in the Parliament after this autumn’s general elections.
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