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Tismana, the Heaven of the traditional garments from Oltenia

2011. október 9. | admin

Tismana, Romania - At the foot of the Tismana Monastery the women, young and old, from the area named Mahala, manually sew traditional costumes.

Slovakia: Gains and Losses During Elections

2011. szeptember 29. | admin

Košice, 28 September (RPA) — As of 1 September of this year Law no. 300/2005 Coll. – the Penal Law – has been amended. The amended law follows from the constantly increasing number of election complaints submitted to the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic regarding the results of elections and adds election corruption to [...]

Slovakia: Missing system and systematic work with Roma issues

2011. augusztus 29. | admin

Košice August, 15 (RPA) – Representatives of the European Union were in Slovakia in may to check how money earmarked for resolving the problems of the Roma is being used. EK organized High Level Event on the Structural Funds contribution to Roma integration in Slovakia. The conference was in Bratislava and in Košice. Euro commissioner László [...]

Roma Spiritual Life

2011. július 30. | Black Joe

Many books have been published on the Roma migration and their encounters with other nations whose beliefs Roma had embraced. Several superstitions and traditions prove that Roma emraced habits related to religion and spiritual life. During their migration Roma got acquainted with the Holy Writ which slowly became a part of their life. They adopted [...]

White Horse in the Hole

2011. május 3. | GGy

The band Parno Graszt (White Horse) plays authentic gypsy music from North-Eastern Hungary. They have been touring all over the world to show their talent, and in Octobre 2002. they had reached the 7th position in Europe’s World Music Chart. The ambience is always bustling in their concerts in Budapest, and those who are singing with them are – surprisingly! – mostly not gipsy people. The report was made at one of their concerts in Budapest, at the Hole Club.

Roma Icons

2011. április 15. | Balog Zsolt

An exhibition was held in Budapest, at the House of Hungarian Photographers, entitled „Roma Icons, New York – Budapest 1996-2011”. Visitors could admire the paintings of Erika Lakatos, who – in 1997 – was awarded Best Photographer of the Year, in Washington. The artist wants to touch not only Roma spectators, but wants to achieve a form of communication that would help in understanding and accepting each other. According to historian of arts Tímea Junghaus, Erika Lakatos is an emblematic figure in Hungarian photography and art, who doesn’t have to stress her Gypsy origins.

Comics Against Racism

2011. április 1. | GGy

The organisers of the Music Against Racism concerts also held an exposition of comics and other drawings within the confines of the International Antiracist Day in the Budapest Millenaire Park. The drawings were made in the frames of the project Comics Against Racism. The campaign, started by Italian, French and German youth, points at the different manifestations of racism and discrimination, by its special means. Our report was made between the concerts of Réka Nagy’s Live Act Folk, and the performance of DJ Dermot.

Family of world champions

2011. március 8. | Fény

Richárd Veres is a kickboxing champion, he has won practically all competitions in Hungary and abroad. He trains every day and although he is only 19, he teaches kickboxing to young children. His siblings do the same sports – with similar success, like him. They live with their ailing mother in a small apartment in Csepel where their medals and honors from kickboxing competitions cover all the walls.

I don’t want others to see my pain

2011. március 8. | Fény

Almost two years ago, on a cold february morning Róbert Csorba and his 4 year-old son were shot dead as they were trying to escape from their house set afire by Molotov-cocktails in the village Tatárszentgyörgy. Renáta, the widow and the mother talks about the trauma and how she has been coping with it.

We are just like you

2011. március 8. | Balog Zsolt

Zsolt Orsós, a sportsman of Roma origin, has won a ringing ball European Championship. He was appointed as „Solidarity Ambassador” to visit schools and talk to children about disabled people. Zsolt graduated from the Sports Science Chair of the Semmelweis Medical University. He has been talking to young people about disabilities and engaging them to play goal ball which is the only sport specially developed for visually impaired people.

Csinálják a fesztivált | Roma Dokufeszt

Gyöngyöspatán nincsen semmi etnikai háborgás, csak direkt politikai feszültségkeltés van. – A HírTv dokumentumfilmjében elhangzott megfogalmazás.

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