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...Czech Republic Galéria Jána Koniarka, Trnava, Slovakia Galerija SKUC, Ljubljana 2006 Roma and Gadje – Kortárs Roma Galéria, Budapest National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo 2B Galéria, Budapest 2007 Paradise Lost – 1st Roma Art Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia 2008 Paradise Lost – Museum Kampa, Prague Parno Gras – Entografski Muzej, Zagreb Die vergessenen Europäer – Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne 2009 Parno Gras – Slovenski etnografski muzej, Ljubljana Bring an Object – Museum of E...

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The Roma Movement in Romania

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Development of Roma Civil Rights Movements in Argentina and Latin America

...Czech, Romani, immigrant mother Julia, a teacher3, although Roma activists recall his inviting their people to his palace during his presidency. Today, however, emerging processes of political activism and mobilization aiming at seeking recognition in some countries has led to a growing public and political presence. Nowadays we find in Roma NGOs a group of individuals of all kinds of professions, including lawyers, doctors, psychologists, anthropologists, musicians, actors and other professions...

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A History of the Roma Associative Movement in Spain

...Czech Republic 14 Fundación Pere Parrés. (2006). Estudi sobre la Població Gitana a Cataluyna. Informe Final. p.272 15 According to available data in 1978, 91% of the Roma population declared to be Catholic. Over the next twenty years, the Evangelical movement developed dynamically as more Roma conversed: in 2000 55.7% of Roma declared themselves as belonging to the Evangelistic Church, in 2003 already 72.3% of the Roma population declared Evangelical; also, the number of Romani Evangelical Churc...

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Rosamaria E. Kostic Cisneros

...Czech Republic: Yagori Festival, Goran Zoric and Khamoro Festival Rosamaria E. Kostic Cisneros Transylvania, Romafest Dance Company and Attila Szalto Rosamaria E. Kostic Cisneros United Kingdom: The Blake and Cisneros Collections Isaac Blake and Rosamaria E. Kostic Cisneros United Kingdom: Clog Dancing, Howel Wood, Riley Smith and Damian Le Bas Rosamaria E. Kostic Cisneros Carmen Amaya Gonzalo Montaño Peña Mario Maya – A Revolutionary Roma Belén Maya

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Oral Literature

...Czech Republic. Was der Knabe träumt [What the boy saw in his dream] Andrej Blada, Milena Hübschmannová | Oral Literature | Ústí nad Labem | 1976-05 | lit_00081 Heroic epics and the subjects of ancient ballads (external Link) of the Balkan countries were preserved by the speakers of the Arli dialects (external Link) and narrated and sung until a few decades ago. Oral literature, however, includes not only tales of magic (1, 2, 3, 4) but also farces, instructive stories and parables, fables, erot...

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»Der Doktor der Luftwaffe goss ihm gewalttätig das Seewasser herunter«

Karl Höllenreiner, June 17, 1947, voi_00047

...Czechoslovak Rom begged and implored to the Air Force physician that he couldn’t possibly drink any more water. The Air Force physician then ordered that this Czechoslovak Rom be tied to a bed and the Air Force physician himself then forcibly injected the seawater using a stomach pump. During the experiments most of the Sinti and Roma were given liver and spinal punctures. I myself was given a liver puncture and know from my own experience that these punctures were extremely painful. Even today,...

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Appearance: Understanding Romani characters on screen

...Czech Republic, 1984) is similar in many instances to Gypsies. The film uses parallel editing to show a theatre play in Romani, thus highlighting the community’s rich cultural traditions, juxtaposed with interviews with Slovakian Roma who live in deplorable conditions. The synopsis points out how formal devices (e.g. facial close-ups) ‘underline the silence that has been imposed on the Roma community’. The Romani language is also used in the Hungarian fictional documentary Cséplő Gyuri (Hungary,...

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Migration and the Roma

...Czech and Slovak Republics, in mainstream schools in the UK, they were generally successful, with their overall attainment levels only a little below the averages for all children. There can be few more stunning illustrations of the continuing insidious racism in these countries of emigration and the reasons why courage and the determination of the migrants, have defeated anti-migrant polices. Nonetheless, the strategies of the European Union and the IOM, though unsuccessful, have not been entir...

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Transnational Movements of Roma to achieve Civil Rights after the Holocaust

...Czechoslovakia | July 24, 2000 - July 28, 2000 | rom_30007 Provided by: Thomas Acton – Private Archive Meanwhile in Germany, Romani Rose built perhaps the strongest of all national representative organisations, while Rudko Kawczynski had built the European alliance of grass-roots Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Organisations, which had most success in acting as a European negotiating partner; first in the Roma National Congress, then in the Standing Conference of Romani Organisations, as a rival to th...

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Seven Ages of the Roma Civil Rights Movement in Great Britain

...Czech Roma, Petr Torak, combatted racism by the police against its own officers and created a ‘new normal’ for acknowledging the rights of Roma36. In 2016 various Gypsy Council members attended Congresses of different factions of the IRU in Riga and Skopje. The Skopje IRU command most support because of its commitment in principle to democratic transition and mass electronic voting.37 Ioana Constantinescu | Interview with Jim Davies. Personal background and struggle | Non Fiction | 2017 | rom_30...