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. Please cite us whenever using the content of these pages!
Kosovo Rroma
Amnesty International, Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Völker, Schweizerische Flüchtlingshilfe, the Rroma Foundation, and Human Rights Switzerland have launched an appeal against the decision of the Swiss Government to return Rroma refugees from Kosovo to their home country.
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Kosovo Rroma: Returning Refugees
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 Switzerland after five years in that country. No help for returning refugees is available, they have to fend for themselves, and in addition, obtaining legal papers from Kosovo is far from trivial.
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Kosovo Rroma: The Situation after Independence
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 in that country. The progresses since our last report are there, there are fewer attacks, fewer acts against Rroma. …
Rroma in Italy
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 these vistis and offer an insight in the real situation of Rroma in that country.
Sulukule
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 where they will no longer be able to work in their traditional occupation. …
Kosovo 2006
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 the fact that this region is being ethnically cleansed.…
Kosovo 2005
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 discriminations they are subjected to.
THE SITUATION OF RROMA IN KOSOVO
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One Family
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 actual case of all refugees?
ONE RROMA FAMILY
Rroma Foundation
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South Serbia
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 conflict.
RROMAIN SOUTH SERBIA
Rroma Foundation
February 2003
The Situation of Rroma in Former Yugolsavia
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 risk faced by Rroma.
SITUATION OF THE RROMA IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA