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I'M A ROMA WOMAN - VIDEO
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UN Special Rapporteur on Minority
Issues
UN Declaration on the Rights of
Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities:
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Full Press Release: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13214&LangID=E
INTERNATIONAL ROMA DAY - 8 APRIL
2013 - UNITY IN DIVERSITY
GENEVA (8 April 2013) – “It is a positive development that
the fate of Europe’s largest and most marginalized minority group, the Roma, is
more and more on the international human rights agenda,” said today the United
Nations Independent Expert on minority issues, Rita Izsák, on International
Roma Day.
“However, political and legislative
commitments must be implemented in reality to bring the so much needed changes
into the lives of Roma,” she warned, while recalling that the UN Human Rights
Council has made nearly 250 recommendations to almost 30 countries concerning
the situation of Roma communities.
Estimates suggest that up to 12 million Roma
live in Europe, and other sizeable populations live in Latin America, most of
them at the margins of society. Roma people regardless of whether they are
young or old, boys or girls, residing in urban or rural areas, in Europe or
elsewhere have their daily struggles to enjoy their basic human rights.......
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The
Violence Suffered by Romani Women in Brazil and Spain
Fernanda Pattaro Amaral (University
of Cádiz/Spain – supported by MAEC-AECID/Spain)
This is a study comparing two
countries and their advocacy on Romani women’s rights. The most problem they face is about the
structural violence against them. No schools for children of nomads Romani
Brazilian women and no health system care, because they don’t have legal
papers…so they are not considered by justice as citizens.
The study has 4 chapters and much
pictures and documents by the annexes. It explores the real situation of those
Romani women living into a violent context, and the discrimination suffered by
a specific Romani Brazilian woman and potential leader on Romani issues on the
government.
Also it reveals some of the way
Romani society used to get to Europe, and how they got to South America, in
this case, Brazil.
On the chapter 2 it is showed how
Romani Brazilian women live and what Brazilian societies thinks about them with
much Romanticism and untrustee. In the
chapter 3 I work about Romani culture in a specific city of Andalucía, Spain,
called “Jerez de la Frontera” and how Romani culture and Spanish culture are
now one particular culture into this city.
Also it’s revealed some of great Romani Spanish women that are
recognized by their leadership, their work and their activism. At this chapter
I interviewed three great Romani Spanish women from “Fundación Secretariado
Gitano” at Jerez de la Frontera and they talked to me about the prejudice they
suffered. In chapter 4 I analyze the
violence against them, reporting some interview I’ve done with Romani Brazilian
women talking about violence, prejudice and racism. I also analyze the historical violence
against Romani societies since their first steps leaving India and reaching
Europe and how they were persecuted, marked with hot metal on their backs and
obliged to become “Spanish” and leave their culture and language behind
them. Finally we can ask ourselves about
the meaning of the States in working with Romani issues and implement laws to
bring peace to Romani societies.
The entire study is in Spanish and
can be downloaded here: http://www.bibliotecafeminista.org.br/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=53&func=fileinfo&id=509
To contact the authoress, please
write to: fpa.sociologia@gmail.com