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Slovak court compensates illegally sterilized Romani woman after 15 yearsThe Regional Court in Košice, Slovakia has upheld an award of compensation to a Romani woman who was illegally sterilized in the fully requested amount of more than EUR 16 000. In 1999, doctors at a hospital in Krompachy sterilized the woman without obtaining her informed consent to the procedure and it has taken her 15 years to achieve justice through the courts. "It is positive that the domestic courts have finally awarded a woman who has been harmed in this way adequate compensation. However, the entire proceedings lasted an unbelievable 15 years, and the courts made many errors during that time. For that reason, I am convinced that in this case the courts did not manage to actually provide her effective access to justice," said the legal representative of the injured woman, Vanda Durbáková. "At the same time, it must be emphasized that the courts do not have to be the only venue for providing redress and may not be the most effective one when there is the suspicion of such a serious, systemic violation of the human rights of minority members as the forced sterilizations of Romani women," Durbáková added. Link: http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/slovak-court-compensates-illegally-sterilized-romani-woman-after-15-years

The Regional Court in Košice, Slovakia has upheld an award of compensation to a Romani woman who was illegally sterilized in the fully requested amount of more than EUR 16 000. In 1999, doctors at a hospital in Krompachy sterilized the woman without obtaining her informed consent to the procedure and it has taken her 15 years to achieve justice through the courts.

 

"It is positive that the domestic courts have finally awarded a woman who has been harmed in this way adequate compensation. However, the entire proceedings lasted an unbelievable 15 years, and the courts made many errors during that time. For that reason, I am convinced that in this case the courts did not manage to actually provide her effective access to justice," said the legal representative of the injured woman, Vanda Durbáková.

 

"At the same time, it must be emphasized that the courts do not have to be the only venue for providing redress  and may not be the most effective one when there is the suspicion of such a serious, systemic violation of the human rights of minority members as the forced sterilizations of Romani women," Durbáková added.

 

Link: http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/slovak-court-compensates-illegally-sterilized-romani-woman-after-15-years

Pula: Arrested man linked to murder of Roma children

Pula police in the Kavran neighborhood have arrested two people suspected of committing multiple crimes, from forging documents to extorting funds.

 

According to media reports, one of them is Nijaz Causevic - Medo (66), who is linked to the murder of Roma children in Bosnia during the war, with the second detainee allegedly his son.

 

According to media reports, Nijaz Causevic Medo admitted to taking part in the murders of Roma children for organ trafficking, but later denied it. The massacre took place in 1992 in the village of Sijkovica near Bosanski Brod, where the bodies were found and exhumed in 2004.

 

Lawyer Dusko Tomic claims that Causevic once confessed to him that members of the Croatian Armed Forces (HOS) killed Roma children who were traveling by bus from BiH to Western Europe. The children were allegedly taken out of organs that were later sold on the black market for human organs.

 

Causevic told Croatian media he had never heard of such a crime before, nor did he, but by personal confession, he could not enter BiH because he was declared a war criminal here.

 

Link: http://www.portal-udar.net/hrvatska-uhapsen-muskarac-koji-se-povezivao-s-ubistvima-romske-djece/

Silas Cropf: Because of 'Roma Stereotypes' I Hid My Identity

One of those who agreed to share their story with the German newspaper

Spiegel is also Silas Kropf. Until his teens, he kept to himself the fact that he was a Sinti, because it was related that his family was in exile during the Nazi era.

 

"My grandfather was afraid that such a thing might happen again, so we didn't show our culture openly to the outside world, and we only spoke German, not Roma. My family suffered major traumas during the Nazis.

 

My great-grandmother was also Sinti and had more brothers and sisters whose families were deported to the camps. Only a few returned - others were killed.

 

During his schooling, his identity as Sinti was kept secret by Silas. He cites collective mistrust in Germany's state institutions, which he believes were highly prejudiced against Roma and Sinti people.

However, even after his education, Silas had reasons for not revealing his nationality.

 

"When I went out with my company, they sometimes forgot that I was Sinti, and exposed me to inappropriate jokes. I can't say the exact number of situations where they told me, "It's not true that you are Sinti, you can't be Sinti, you don't look like them at all. Like the majority of Roma who want to integrate into society, I have witnessed many ugly jokes such as "See the Gypsies" for people who looked very poor "says Silas.

 

Link: http://www.portal-udar.net/silas-kropf-zbog-ciganskog-stereotipa-sam-skrivao-svoj-identitet/ 

Romani people in Brazil

The Romani people in Brazil are known by non-Romani ethnic Brazilians as ciganos (Portuguese pronunciation: [siˈɡɐ̃nus]), or alternatively by terms such as calés, calós, calons, boêmios, judeus  (in Minas Gerais) and quicos (in Minas Gerais and São Paulo), in various degrees of accuracy of use and etymology as well as linguistic prestige.

 

As implied by some of their most common local names, most Brazilian Romani belong to the Iberian Kale (Kalos) group, like their fellow lusophone Portuguese ciganos, and the Spanish Romani people, known as gitanos. A 2012 government report indicates that they arrived in Brazil in the second half of the 16th century, after being expelled from Portugal.

 

They were sentenced to prison in Portugal, requested to be exiled instead, and were ultimately sent to Brazil (some were first sent to Africa). The report also indicates that most Romani men in Brazil today "live from trade ". At one time, they traded horses but now, deal in used cars and other goods.

 

The 2010 census data indicates a population of 800,000 ciganos, or 0.4% of Brazil's population; Many still speak the Romani language. A 2015 report by the United Nations stated that the Roma (Cigano) community who seemed to be "highly invisible" in Brazil. "They are still largely stereotyped as thieves, beggars or fortune tellers."

 

The first Brazilian president (1956–1961) of direct non-Portuguese Romani origin was Juscelino Kubitschek, 50% Czech Romani by his mother's bloodline. His term was marked by economic prosperity and political stability, being most known by the construction of Brazil's new capital, Brasília.

 

Nevertheless, Brazil already had a president of Portuguese Kale ancestry before Juscelino's term, Washington Luís who was trained as Lawyer became a career politician, and later focused on historical studies in Brazil.

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