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The first stone of Romasia, the land of a Roma dream, has been laid
Milan, 27.2.2010, 12:12, (EveryOne Group)
 A tiny fragment of the dream is now reality. We must act now, before it is too late, to give the project an Italian and European dimension which will permit the Roma families to integrate once and for all. The project will provide them with employment while preserving their unique traditions, their sense of the family, their way of life - a life without wars, living in close contact with nature...
 full story | UN rights council hears Italy on migrants, Roma
Geneva, 10.2.2010, 23:11, (DPA)
Italy came under criticism Tuesday at the United Nations' Human Rights Council in Geneva for its record on migration, minorities and the independence of the judiciary.
full story | Incident report: Violent attacks against Roma in the Ponticelli District of Naples
Italy, 26.8.2008, 11:11, (Roma Daily News)
The report provides information on the impact of the recent events in the Ponticelli district of Naples on Roma, immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
full story | Begging is "a human right" says the Vatican
Vatican/Rome, 9.8.2008, 09:09, (Times Online)
The Italian Government is cracking down on street beggars but the Church says asking for "a piece of bread" and help against "the hunger and cold" is no crime.
full story | Troops on the streets of Italy in crime crackdown
Rome, 4.8.2008, 17:05, (Times online)
Thousands of soldiers were deployed in Italy's major cities from dawn today as part of a drive by Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right government to tackle street crime and illegal immigration.
full story | Romanian president slams Italy's gypsy rules
Rome, 2.8.2008, 18:06, (AFP)
Romanian President Traian Basescu has hit out at Italy's tough new stance towards gypsies Thursday, according to comments reported by ANSA news agency after a meeting with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome.
full story | Gypsy leaders accuse Italy of discrimination
WARSAW, Poland, 2.8.2008, 18:06, (AP/IHT)
Gypsy leaders attending a ceremony at the former Auschwitz death camp Saturday accused Italy of harassment and discrimination, a news agency reported.
full story | Roma MEP defends Italys fingerprinting measures
Strasbourg, 30.7.2008, 09:09, (Euractiv.com)
 The decision by the government of Silvio Berlusconi to fingerprint Roma in Italy was well intentioned, says Lvia Jrka, a Hungarian MEP from the centre-right EPP-ED group, in an interview with EurActiv Hungary.
full story | The world was shocked by Italian sunbathers ignoring dead gipsy girls... But now Italy is showing a chilling interest in Roma children
Italy, 26.7.2008, 10:10, (Daily Mail)
 It was the week's most shocking picture: gipsy girls dead on a beach ignored by sunbathers... Now there is more chilling evidence of how Italy's brutal crackdown on the Roma has sick echoes of the country's fascist past.
full story | Italian outrage over Roma drowning photos
Neapol, 21.7.2008, 21:09, (CNN - VIDEO)
Italian newspapers, an archbishop and civil liberties campaigners expressed shock and revulsion on Monday after photographs were published of sunbathers apparently enjoying a day at the beach just meters from where the bodies of two drowned Roma girls were laid out on the sand.
full story | Red Cross Collaborates in Ethnic Filing of Roma in Italy
Hamburg, 15.7.2008, 20:08, (ROMEA)
Massimo Barra, the head of the Italian Red Cross, insisted that the aim was to integrate Roma people into Italian society. If children were fingerprinted, it would be done "as a game", he said. Mr Barra said the Red Cross "always respects human rights. We are building bridges, not walls." 5 July, The Times.
full story | Letter of protest to Berlusconi regarding Italian action on fingerprinting Roma living in camps
Strasbourg, 13.7.2008, 16:04, (ROMEA)
Since months we are looking very closely at the incidents of violent attack on the settlements in Italy, police brutality and violations, hate speech in which hundreds of Roma have been forced to run for fear of their life. So far there hasnt been any appropriate reactions or measures taken to stop the violence and pogroms of Roma by your government.
full story | Open letter from ERTF regarding Italian action on fingerprinting Roma living in camps
Strasbourg, 13.7.2008, 16:04, (ROMEA)
The European Roma and Travellers Forum is seriously concerned about the action of the Italian authorities on fingerprinting Roma living in the camps across he country adults and children alike brushing aside the concerns of the European nstitutions and International organisations. Having regard the Human Rights and Fundamental freedoms, the principles of equality and nondiscrimination, the right to privacy and data protection, as recognised by the International and European conventions protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms, and in particular the European Convention on Human Rights and the related jurisprudence and by the Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as the International Convention on Childrens Rights today the European Roma and Travellers Forum call upon all Governments of European and non- European member states to:
full story | Roma protest against fingerprinting in Italy
Vienna, 11.7.2008, 16:04, (ROMEA)
 Today 11 July between 10:00 12:30, in Vienna, the representatives of the Roma civil society, present to the OSCE Meeting on the Sustainable Roma Policy are organizing a march protesting against the violent attacks and the ethnically motivated security measures adopted by the Italian Government targeting Roma and Sinti, in particular in the matter of fingerprinting of Roma and children.
full story | Fingerprint all Italians, minister says
Rome, 11.7.2008, 13:01, (Eubusiness/ROMEA)
Italy's defence minister suggested all Italians be fingerprinted so the government would not be accused of racism for fingerprinting gypsies, in comments published Friday, rejecting EU lawmakers' cries of discrimination.
full story | ERTF PressPelease: Protest NOTE toward Italian Gouvernment
Strasbourg, 10.7.2008, 16:04, (ERTF)
Mr Rudko Kawczynski, President of the European Roma and Travellers Forum, delivered to Mr Pietro Lonardo, Permanent Representative of Italy at the Council of Europe a protest note requesting to stop the anti-Roma action of the Italian authorities on fingerprinting Roma living in the camps across the country, brushing aside the concerns of the European Institutions and International organisations.
full story | Italian plans to fingerprint Roma criticised as 'ethnic cataloguing'
Roma, 27.6.2008, 22:10, (ROMEA/EUobserver)
Italy has found itself under heavy criticism for a proposed crack-down on clandestine migration by fingerprinting Roma individuals, including children, with the European Commission admitting such a move would violate EU anti-discrimination rules and respect for fundamental rights.
full story | Rebecca Covaciu, 12-year-old Roma girl, winner of the 2008 Unicef Prize, assaulted in Milan
Milano, 23.6.2008, 11:11, (Everyonegroup.com)
 The assault took place at 8 a.m. in Milan (Italy) on Tuesday June 17th. The Covaciu family, Romanians of the Roma ethnic group, already the victims of endless wandering around Italy due to abuse, threats and camp clearances, were leaving the tent they have been living in in a micro-settlement in the Gianbellino area, when they were brutally attacked by two Italians aged between 35 and 40. Rebecca, aged 12, (known in Italy for having been awarded the 2008 Unicef Caff? Shakerato prize for her artistic gifts applied to intercultural topics) and her brother Ioni, aged 14, were first pushed around and then beaten.
full story | Marching for Roma Rights in Rome
Rome, 9.6.2008, 21:09, (Javno/ROMEA - VIDEO)
 Members of Italy`s Roma and Sinti communities demand more rights and better living conditions at a rally in Rome. A peaceful and colourful demand for more rights. Several hundred members of Italy's Roma and Sinti communities marching through Rome, dancing and playing music as they protested against a recent government crackdown on their camps.
full story | 2008: To be Rom in Italy
Bucurest, 3.6.2008, 11:11, (Press release)
Today, 3 June 2008, the associations of Roma from Romania are protesting in front of the Italian Embassy to Bucharest, against the numerous racist and xenophobic actions targeting Roma in Italy, and against the lack of reaction of the Italian and Romanian authorities. The protest in Bucharest is taking place simultaneously with a protest of Romani organizations from Spain in front of the Italian Embassy to Madrid.
full story | EU officials denounce attacks on Gypsies in Italy
STRASBOURG, 20.5.2008, 21:09, (AP)
 European Union officials on Tuesday denounced attacks on Roma camps in Italy and warned against expelling citizens of other EU states on the grounds of their ethnic origin.
full story | The statement of ERIO concerning the aggressive racial attacks against Roma people in Italy
Brussels, 20.5.2008, 17:05, (ROMEA)
The European Roma Information Office ERIO express its deep concern on the aggressive racial attacks against Roma people in Italy by members of the Italian society and on the passive position held by the Italian authorities. ERIO asks the Italian government to take urgent measures to stop Anti-Roma attacks and ensure security and protection to Roma communities.
full story | Anti-roma violence in Italy: ARE WE BACK TO 1930?
Italy, 20.5.2008, 08:08, (ROMEA/ERTF)
Today, in a letter addressed to the European Union and the European Parliament the European Roma and Travellers Forum expressed concern over the violent attack on the informal settlements in Italy in which hundreds of Roma have been forced to run off for fear of their life.
full story | ERRC Calls Italian Government to Stop Anti-Romani Pogroms
Italy, 20.5.2008, 08:08, (ERRC/ROMEA)
 On 16 May 2008, the European Roma Rights Centre sent a letter to high-ranking Italian government authorities demanding intervention following anti-Romani pogroms taking place in Naples. The letter, sent to the Italian Prime Minister, the Italian President, the Minister of Interior, the head of the Italys National Office Against Racial Discrimination and the Public Prosecutor, pointed to similarities between the recent events in Italy and anti-Romani pogroms taking place in Romania in the early 1990s, for which the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against Romania three times since 2005. The ERRC also highlighted the responsibility of high ranking Italian politicians for contributing to the current climate of hostility against Roma in Italy.
full story | Italy arrests 400 in illegal immigrants swoop
Italy, 19.5.2008, 16:04, (Roma Daily News)
Italian police announced on Thursday the arrest of hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants in a sign of the determination of Silvio Berlusconi's new right-wing government to clamp down.
full story | 68% of Italians want Roma expelled - poll
Italy, 19.5.2008, 16:04, (Roma Daily News)
Sixty-eight per cent of Italians, fuelled by often inflammatory attacks by
the new rightwing government, want to see all of the country's 150,000
Gypsies, many of them Italian citizens, expelled, according to an opinion
poll.
full story | Italy: Rights watchdog attacks anti-Roma Gypsy violence
Vienna/Warsaw, 16.5.2008, 22:10, (AKI)
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe human rights watchdog has expressed concern over recent attacks against Roma Gypsy camps in Italy.
full story | Spain criticises Italian policy towards immigration
Madrid, 16.5.2008, 21:09, (Typicallyspanish.com)
The Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, Mara Teresa Fernndez de la Vega, considered that the Silvio Burlusconi administration was not respecting the human rights of foreigners.
full story | Italy police to protect Gypsies
Italy, 14.5.2008, 15:03, (BBC/ROMEA)
 Italian police are being forced to protect Roma Gypsies who have come under attack from local residents in Naples two nights running.
Makeshift homes were set alight as demonstrators attacked two camps. The disturbance was sparked by an alleged kidnap attempt by a Roma teenager.
There is deep suspicion throughout the country of the Roma community.
full story | Italy: Dismantling of illegal camp divides Milan's leaders
Italy, 11.4.2008, 10:10, (Roma Daily News)
Italy's controversial relationship with the Roma community has been further exacerbated after one of their camps was dismantled in the northern city of Milan.
full story | Berlusconi criticized in Brussels over anti-Roma remarks
Brussels, 14.2.2008, 19:07, (DPA)
A liberal lawmaker in Brussels and Roma rights advocates Wednesday demanded an apology from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi over his calls for "zero tolerance" towards Roma, illegal immigrants and criminals. Berlusconi made the comments at the start of the election campaign leading to next April's general election, in which he is vying for a third term in office.
full story | Join the protest against the anti-Romani statement of Silvio Berlusconi!
Brussels, 13.2.2008, 19:07, (ROMEA)
 Viktria Mohcsi MEP-ALDE, and the following non-governmental organizations listed below, feel insulted by the statement of Silvio Berlusconi and demand his peremptory apologies. Silvio Berlusconi declared "Tolerance zero towards Roma, clandestines and criminals" during a phone interview concerning his program for the first 100 day of governance.
full story | Romanian Roma organisations call for Commissioner Frattini to step down
Bucurest, 15.11.2007, 10:10, (ROMEA)
On November 3, Mr Frattini, Italian Commissioner for Justice and Civil Liberties declared: "What has to be done is simple. Go into a nomad camp in Rome for example, and ask them: ?Can you tell me where you live? If they say they do not know, take them and send them home to Romania. That is how the European directive works. It is simple and safe. Romania cannot say they will not take them back, because it is an obligation that is part of being a member state of the EU."
full story | ERIO: Press release on Anti-Gypsyism in Italy
Brussels, 12.11.2007, 16:04, (ROMEA)
The emergency decree adopted last week by the Italian government facilitates expulsion of (Romanians, Roma) aliens without sufficient procedural guarantees. We are concerned that the application of the decree is violating European and international human rights standards and urge the Italian government to revoke the emergency decree.
full story | Romanian Premier Tries to Calm Italy After a Killing
Bucurest, 8.11.2007, 10:10, (New York Times)
Romanias prime minister visited Italy on Wednesday to try to defuse a week of anger here, after the arrest of a Romanian in the killing of an Italian woman exploded into a national debate on immigration and crime. Some three dozen immigrants have been expelled since then, with calls from the center-right opposition for many more expulsions.
full story | Leader warns 'no witch-hunt' for Romanians
Strasbourg, 8.11.2007, 10:10, (AKI)
Rene van der Linden, the president of the Council
of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), has warned the Italian government
against conducting a 'witchhunt' in its crackdown on Romanian migrants.
full story | Italy moves to expel EU nationals as part of crime crackdown
Rome, Italy, 6.11.2007, 14:02, (EU Observer)
Italian authorities have started rounding up Romanian immigrants illegally residing in the country following a fast-track adoption of a decree allowing expulsions of EU citizens who pose a threat to public security.
full story | Stop anti-Gypsyism by joining our protest!
Italy/Romania, 5.11.2007, 14:02, (Roma Network)
Following a sustained campaign carried out in a number of prominent media since the summer months of 2007, inciting panic about crimes purportedly committed by Romanians -- and in particular Romanian Roma -- the Italian government has passed an emergency decree facilitating the expulsion of Romanian citizens, with only limited procedural protections. In the context of agitating for these new draconian measures, media in Italy and Romania have participated in explicitly racist incitement, and a number of high-ranking officials have made explicitly anti-Romani statements.
full story | President Basescu summons Brussels authorities to take stand on crisis affecting Romanians in Italy
Rome, Italy, 5.11.2007, 12:12, (HotNews.ro)
 Romanian President Traian Basescu criticized the activity of the country's embassies and consulates abroad in a speech on Sunday evening as Romanian immigrants in Italy have become the target of raids and fierce official rhetoric after one killed an Italian woman in October.
full story | Pope appeals for respect for migrants rights after Italy begins clampdown on Romanians
Rome, Italy, 5.11.2007, 12:12, (Roma Network)
 Pope Benedict yesterday urged the Italian authorities to respect migrants rights, after the government begun arresting Romanians, deporting those they said were a 'danger to public safety' and bulldozing several shantytowns in which Romanian migrants lived.
full story | Italy turns on its immigrants in wake of a murder
Rome, Italy, 5.11.2007, 12:12, ()
These are the first victims of a brutal Italian crackdown on immigrants. As thousands await deportation without trial, are we entering a new era of intolerance across Europe?
full story | Italy death sparks expulsion order
Rome, Italy, 2.11.2007, 12:12, (AP)
A woman who was raped and beaten near a Gypsy camp allegedly by a Romanian has died, state radio has reported. The latest attack blamed on a foreigner has prompted the government to give authorities the power to expel EU immigrants deemed dangerous.
full story | Rome criminals denouncer, taken into custody
Rome, Italy, 2.11.2007, 12:12, (HotNews.ro)
The improvised camp where the Roma immigrants lived in Romes suburbs, on the bank of Tibrus, was fully cleaned up by the Italian Police on Thursday morning.
full story | Roman Catholic Charity Attaked for Hosting Rroma People
Pavia, Italy, 11.9.2007, 10:10, (Church News)
In Italy, Pavia, citizens attacked a Roman-Catholic Church charity for hosting Rroma. During last months many Rroma were attacked just for being in Italy. The worst crime was when a band of teenagers burn to death a camp of Rroma/Sinti and children died in fire. Yet, only few journalists dear to say those criminals are fascists.
full story | Roma People of Romania Origin Targeted by Extremists in Italy
Italy, 20.8.2007, 10:10, (DIVERS)
A previously unknown group of Italian extremists, the Armed Group for Ethnic Cleansing (GAPE), claimed in a letter to an Italian newspaper last weekend that they were behind the death of several Roma children originating from Romania in a fire in Livorno on August 11.
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