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Dikh-TV, a Roma Channel in the Hungarian Media: From a Grassroots Self-representation to an Elite, White-dominated Media Platform

Recurrently, cultural programs on Roma people in the media and on news platforms are either marginalized or portray Roma in an exoticized, poverty-related or criminalizing manner. Either way, the representation of Roma people is construed by the ‘white gaze’, and they have little room for shaping their own depiction. Having a look at the many attempts for Roma self-representation throughout the last decades, we might understand that these endeavors have not been welcomed by the reigning elite.

Dikh-TV, which started as a Romani-led grassroots YouTube-channel in Hungary in 2015 with the aim to transform the negative depiction of Roma, through a media platform “about Roma, not only for Roma”, did not succees either. Soon enough, the political elite infiltrated it and then took over the lead for good by making a TV channel from Dikh-TV. Although the channel still portrays Roma people and culture in its current form, it is done under the control of the right-wing pro-government white elite.

 

Link: http://mezosfera.org/dikh-tv-a-roma-channel-in-the-hungarian-media-from-a-grassroots-self-representation-to-an-elite-white-dominated-media-platform/?fbclid=IwAR0ftE8yu4gVWu5mxDG2hYFv_uZjUG2kh8F3SN5x27JkIStQzpV48msBXHU

The Supreme Court confirmed that the graduate Toni Sali died without a registration number due to a mistake of the civil and appellate court Skopje

Toni Sali from Skopje, a 19-year-old high school graduate with great success who died last May in a state devastated by never recognizing his biological father and giving him his ID and ID card, won in front of the Supreme Court. His lawyer Tamara Slaveska-Apostolovski, granted by the Ministry of Justice as free legal aid, after his sudden death last year continued to fight the battle at his own expense. After the Skopje Civil Court dismissed Toni Sali shortly before his death, rejecting the lawyer's lawsuit to establish the biological father, she did not stop there.

Slaveska-Apostolovski filed an appeal with the Skopje Court of Appeals. However, they also rejected the request for establishing paternity, ruling that the Skopje Civil Court was not competent for such a thing.

Following this decision on appeal, the lawyer, claiming that the Civil Court has jurisdiction to establish paternity, which would have been a solution to the long battle between Tony Sally and his mother to immediately obtain a personal identification number and be registered in the Birth Registry, filed request for review to the Supreme Court.

Today, she received the decision of the highest court in Macedonia, that the lawyer and Tony were right.

"The revision is being adopted, the Supreme Court has confirmed that the Civil Court was obliged to act on the lawsuit of Tony Sally for establishing paternity and motherhood, and not to reject it! "Justice will come, slowly but surely, even if it is too late!" Tamara Slaveska-Apostolovski told lawyer.

The decision that will help many phantoms born in Macedonia to get a social security number and start exercising their basic human rights was made by the supreme judges: Shpend Devaja, Mirjana Radevska-Stefkova, Isamedin Limani, Lidija Martinova and Nake Georgiev.

But Tony Sally is gone.

 

Link: https://sdk.mk/index.php/neraskazhani-prikazni/vrhovniot-sud-potvrdi-deka-maturantot-toni-sali-pochina-bez-matichen-broj-poradi-greshka-na-graganskiot-sud/?fbclid=IwAR2Q9wED5jM4LyDIVgD0ax9zTR4dzEz1l0UWfvt9oDdxeRmHG03TNFAm34A#.YlWH8f0_Axg.facebook

 

Croatia: Roma from Rijeka offended, left the assembly because none of the city authorities came to the round table on the occasion of International Roma Day!

On the occasion of the International Roma Day, a round table was to be held which was not attended by the representatives of the authorities in Rijeka, so the offended Roma left the city hall, where the Round table on the occasion of the International Roma Day was to be held. As the President of the Council Suri Mehmeti emphasized:

"We Roma will not be an ornament, only when necessary. It is a shame that neither the mayor, nor the MPs, nor the head of culture appeared! Didn't they send us five hundred employees in the city administration today to join us? Not even a cleaner! ”, Mehmeti commented indignantly, so the offended Roma left the city hall.

He called on those gathered to take photos to mark the humiliation in Rijeka, and then to leave the city hall.

 

Link: https://rominfomedia.rs/2022/04/13/hrvatskarijecki-romi-uvredeni-napustili-skupstinu-jer-niko-od-gradskih-vlasti-nije-dosao-na-okrugli-sto-povodom-svetskog-dana-romavideo/

 

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Dehran Muratov: If we aim for an equal and just society, I will not be a number and a percentage

The Roma are not only Roma for April 8, they are Roma and the next day. We saw statements that everything will be great, but today, after four days, no one mentions the Roma anymore. There is not even hate speech these four days after the International Roma Day. This is what is called a slow process - he said that there will be some strategy, implementation, employment, said today in the morning briefing Dehran Muratov from CIVIL.

We have everything on paper. That's how we work. All Laws exist on paper. We have nice Laws, but when they come for implementation they seem to be covered up, they are not implemented so quickly.

Why is that… We had a strategy for the Roma until 2021. Now we have a new strategy, which will last for several years. What is interesting is that we make strategies and when that strategy ends, it ends here. No new strategy is needed, here it should continue. If we have a strategy for housing, for employment, and if that problem is over, we should already seek their entry into the system, and not leave them on the street and manage as they know how, because they will again become a burden to the state. , adds Muratov.

 

Link: https://civilmedia.mk/muratov-ako-tselime-kon-ednakvo-i-pravedno-opshtestvo-jas-nema-da-sum-brojka-i-protsent/

 

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