In the Media

March 12, 2007	Sterilized Roma Accuse Czechs - BBC News By Marina Denysenko 80 Roma women in Ostrava claim they were coerced into sterilisation in the Czech health system.
January 9, 2007	Gypsies Put EU to the Test - Boston Globe By Colum McCann For the European Union, the accession of Bulgaria and Romania spells the inclusion of 3 million potential problems: more Gypsies.
November 7, 2006	Roma Family's Forced Move Raises Rights Issue in Slovenia - International Herald Tribune By Nicholas Wood The government's role in the forced removal of the Strojan family ranks the incident as one of the most serious attacks on a Roma community in Europe in a decade.
October 26, 2006	Out of Sight, Out of Mind - Transitions Online By Petya Goranova, Petru Zoltan, Valeri Lekov, and Marius Dragomir On the verge of EU entry, new scrutiny of Bulgaria's and Romania's housing policies for their poorest citizens.
August 29, 2006	Poverty stops Slovakia's Roma going very far in hunt for jobs - Financial Times By Robert Anderson The poverty and discrimination that Roma suffer impedes them from migrating, rather than drives them to do so.
August 17, 2006	Turkey's Gypsies: Urban Renewal, Istanbul-Style - The Economist (subscription needed) Urban renewal, Istanbul-style: An embattled minority in an ancient urban neigborhood.
May 29, 2006	Integration Policy: Marginal Benefits - Transitions Online By Rumyan Russinov The makers of social policy have got it all wrong when it comes to the Roma, argues an adviser to the Bulgarian prime minister.
May 18, 2006	Bulgaria: Let Someone Else Do It - Transitions Online By Hristo Hristov In the absence of a law or money, Bulgaria has ceded the responsibility of school desegregation to private groups.
May 7, 2006	Gypsies Gain a Legal Tool in Rights Fight - The New York Times By Otto Pohl More and more, the Roma are going to court to secure their rights, and doing so where they think it will have the best chance for success.
February 15, 2006	Book Review: European Helots - Transitions Online By Andras L. Pap Roma continue to be objects of spatial segregation, spatial cleansing, and ghettoization on a European scale, a new study contends.
February 5, 2006	Displaced Gypsies at Risk of Lead from Kosovo Camps - The New York Times By Nicholas Wood Roma refugees in Kosovo are being exposed to dangerous levels of lead, and little is being done.
January 12, 2006	Role models for Hungary's Roma - BBC News By Nick Thorpe A new organisation in Hungary has been threatening a quiet revolution in relations between the majority population and the Roma community.
Jan 5, 2006	Slovakia: School Daze - Transitions Online By Kristina Magdolenova The Slovak government is examining the treatment of Romani youngsters in school. But is it asking the right questions?
Dec 22, 2005	Antal Kovacs: Road Work - Transitions Online By Laszlo Zoltan When communism fell, the late Antal Kovacs took off his dancing shoes and went on to become one of Hungary's most admired Romani singers.
Dec 15, 2005	Kosovo: Camp Life - Transitions Online By Martin Fisher The people living in contaminated "temporary" camps are hostages to the international community's haste to simplify the complex question of Kosovo.
Dec 7, 2005	Serbia's Roma: Closer than You Think - Transitions Online By Margaret Hagan Research from Serbia digs up more questions than answers about how Roma and others get along - and that is to be welcomed.
Nov 24, 2005	Kosovo: Poisoned Security - Transitions Online By Fatmire Terdevci The people who run Kosovo are starting to heed mounting evidence of severe lead contamination in Romani refugee camps.
Nov 23, 2005	Romania: An Open Wound - Transitions Online By Petru Zoltan A bloody clash between Romanians and the Romani minority in 1993 left their common village divided. Now, local people are working to restore harmony.

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