Latest news about Roma in The Nomad Today

Spain

ALL SAINTS DAY

Two dead, several wounded after shooting in Valencian cemetery

The Nomad Today 11/1/21

A shooting between Spanish Roma families ends in tragedy on All Saints' Day

Finland

OPERATION KURI1

Helsinki Police reprimanded over ethnic profiling of Roma people

The Nomad Today 6/5/21

On Saturday, around 100 people held a demonstration in Helsinki in solidarity with the Roma community of Finland and on behalf of their rights.

Finland

STABBING IN VALLILA

District court sends 16-year-old homicide suspect to prison

The Nomad Today 11/4/20

The boy of Roma ethnicity is also a suspect in another attempted homicide committed by stabbing in Tampere.

HANDOUT - 07 October 2020, Belgium, Brussels: European Commissioner for Transparency and Values Vera Jourova speaks during an online press conference to presents the EU framework on Roma equality and inclusion strategies at the European Commission headquarters. Photo: Mauro Bottaro/European Commission.

World

DISCRIMINATION

Brussels pushes EU states to tackle Roma exclusion with new strategy

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/7/20

In Finland there are an estimated 10,000 – 12,000 Roma and about 3,000 Finnish Roma live in Sweden. 85% of Roma children are at risk of poverty, compared to 20% in the general EU…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a business conference in Budapest, Hungary, March 10, 2020. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo

World

Orban defends segregation of Roma schoolchildren in Hungary

The Nomad Today 5/16/20

Hungarian Prime Minister described as "unfair" a Supreme Court ruling awarding damages to children from the Roma minority who were put in separate classes on the ground floor.