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Amnesty International criticizes closures of Romani settlements in Bulgaria and Slovakia as part of COVID-19 response

The authorities in Bulgaria and Slovakia have put a number of Roma settlements under compulsory quarantine, arguing that such measures are necessary for the protection of public health and safety. Amnesty International considers that unless the governments can justify that these measures were lawful, pursue a legitimate aim, are proportionate to that aim and are not discriminatory, they amount to a violation of human rights.

 

Amnesty International is seriously concerned about the implementation and enforcement of the quarantine measures. According to our research, the authorities have failed to provide the Roma families living in affected settlements with the necessary means to protect themselves, and have also failed to ensure that they have adequate access to water, sanitation, food, hygiene products and health care.

 

Across Europe, Roma represent one of the most disadvantaged communities. In Slovakia and Bulgaria, many Roma families live in poverty, in overcrowded housing and in informal settlements without adequate access to public supply of water and electricity. Roma experience marginalization and discrimination in all walks of life, from education and health to employment.

 

 

Link: http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/amnesty-international-criticizes-closures-of-romani-settlements-in-bulgaria-and-slovakia-as-part-of-covid-19-response

Will freedom return after the corona?

In almost every country in the world, human and democratic rights have been threatened by measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, and the question is what democracy will look like after the easing of measures, whether everything will return to normal, or some previous ones. rights will be lost?

 

Domestic analysts believe that this depends on two elements - the capacity of the authorities and the desire for democratic governance and the awareness of citizens about their rights and their desire to seek them.

 

According to a poll conducted by the American National Democratic Institute (NDI) last month, 4.5 percent of respondents in Macedonia believe that the biggest problems are human rights, democracy and freedom, and that the economy, personal standards and crime are the biggest problems. and corruption and the rule of law.

 

Almost all European countries have announced facilitation of the measures. Some have already begun to reduce the restrictive measures they have introduced, but they have also affected human rights. So, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, when announcing the measures last month, told German citizens that she understood that it was very difficult for people to give up "hard-earned rights" such as freedom of movement and travel, but that they were now necessary for to save lives.

 

Link: https://www.slobodnaevropa.mk/a/%d0%ba%d0%be%d1%80%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%b4%d0%b5%d0%bc%d0%be%d0%ba%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%82%d0%b8%d1%98%d0%b0-%d1%81%d0%bb%d0%be%d0%b1%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%b0-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b0/30566440.html

April 22 - Remembrance Day for the victims of the Holocaust, genocide and other victims of fascism in World War II

The Day of Remembrance for Holocaust Victims, Genocides and Other Victims of Fascism in World War II is a national holiday in remembrance in Serbia, commemorated annually on April 22 and dedicated to the memory of mainly Serbs, but also Roma and Jews, mass crimes during the Second World War in the Nazi creation of the Independent State of Croatia and in occupied Yugoslavia.

 

The date was deliberately chosen because on the night of April 21-22, 1945, two groups of more than 1,000 detainees attempted a breakthrough from the Ustasha Concentration Camp Jasenovac, more precisely from Donja Gradina Camp and Kozara Camp, and from the NDH. only about 100 were saved.

 

In mid-April 1945, the Ustashas began preparing to leave the camp, including the liquidation of prisoners. About 600 of the 1,073 inmates still alive attacked the Ustasha guards and launched a breakthrough that survived 91 of them.

 

The remaining 473 detainees, who were not involved in the breakthrough due to infirmity and illness, were killed and burned together with the camp facilities. On the same day, a detention center for the Kozara prisoners, a working part of the camp in the town of Jasenovac, was searched. Of the 167 inmates, 11 survived. Partisans entered the camp in early May 1945.

 

According to Israeli Jad Yours killed 500,000 Serbs, expelled 250,000 and 200,000 were Catholic, and 90,000 Roma and 30,000 Jews were killed.

 

Link: https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-

Serbia: Green markets and craft shops open from April 21, older people are allowed to walk

As previously announced, the Government of Serbia has made a decision where the measures are slightly relaxed. Older 65-year-olds will be able to work three times a week, craftsmen who work without close contacts can work, as well as green markets.

 

As a reminder, from now on the curfew will start at 6 pm, and epidemiologists assure that Serbia is well on its way to dealing with the paedemic, although the number of new patients on a daily basis is still three-digit.

 

However, doctors say there is room in hospitals, that most infected people have mild symptoms, and that the "Italian" scenario has been avoided for now.

 

With a similar move, Macedonia is a cadet instead of the beginning of the police hour, which was from 16:00 to 05:00 the next day, but from now on it will be from 19:00.

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