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SRtRC proudly present ‘Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Children- Toolkit and Activities for promoting Equality and Tackling Racism’.

This resource has been created by Show Racism the Red Card and was funded by the Welsh Government. It is designed to be an informative and practical tool to help those working with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) children and young people in the Welsh school system.

Please note this resource has been written in consultation with GRT children, young…

Gypsies and travellers: planning provisions

Published Monday, January 4, 2016

Gypsies and travellers have thier own specific section of Government planning policy. The Government has made a number of changes to this designed to strengthen enforcement powers, to change the definition of a traveller for planning purposes, and to give greater protection to green belt areas. This note sets out these issues in more detail.

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This note sets out the…

"They're trying to legislate us off the face of the earth"

Prepared Statement From:

Cathay Birch and Gillian Green Face book.

The time has come for all organizations to come together in our fight for Equality, Dignity and Inclusion within the Societies of the Countries of Europe and the World.

We are a nation without a country a people without borders but we stand under one Flag , There are so many groups and organizations all fighting for the same thing but are not getting very far…

Text below has been written by Thomas Acton:

Dr Donald Kenrick, one of the great names in Romani Studies and activism, and a kind and generous friend to so many, died this morning at 3.15 am after suffering a heart attack in the West Middlesex Hospital, where he had been for about a week.



He was my mentor in scholarship,…

Albert Siebelink passed away on 30 September 2015, at the age of 65 years

(oil portrait by George Vasilescu, made in May 2015)

International Gipsy Festival Tilburg,…

A child has died. Heaven has gained another angel

Hunger and fear are stronger than barbed-wire fences.

This morning when I saw the photographs of Aylan Kurdi, the small Syrian child that drowned on a Mediterranean beach in Turkey, I felt in my throat the kind of lump that prevents you from breathing…

Amalale,

In the past 3 months, many messages have been distributed by Open Society Foundations on establishing a European Roma Institute (ERI)

Extended correspondences and long Skype meetings with prominent Khetanes members (academics, artists and activists) on the ERI issue, made me decide to send the following letter to the Secretary General's Special Representative on Roma related issues, Mr. Ulrich Bunjes:…

Eriata's Words on Marble



MY WISH FOR BUDDING POETS AND WRITERS

My wish for you is to attain a point where you could turn water of experiences into wines of poetry easily consumed by all; the level where a sudden loss of your written lines won't break you down - it will raise your supposed aches into awesome lines speaking in brighter smiles, the very position where you could effortlessly weave bold lines to be etched in the sands of time. This is…

EUROPEAN ROMA AND TRAVELLERS FORUM

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Günter Grass

On 13 April, author and Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass passed away in the age of 87 years. For many years, Günter Grass supported Roma and Sinti. His wife, Ute, also got engaged in the Foundation "Stiftung zugunsten des Romavolkes". Günter Grass was one of the Honorary Supporters of World Artists Initiative "Khetanes". We are grateful for his firm dedication and commitment. May his soul rest in peace!…

From 3 to 8 June, the first International 100 Thousand Poets for Change World Conference will take place in Salerno, Italy. Also Poets from World Artists Initiative Khetanes will participate! (photo: Caffe Castorino will be providing participants with espresso during the…

Yul Brynner (1920-1985) & Aliosha Dimitrievitch (1913-1986) & Serge Camps ( très belle LP-Vinyl ), photo's d'Alain Marouiani, .... LP Vinyl..."Le Tzigane et Moi"...( coll. woutjvv, Barclay, liscence Vanguard ). In 1967 Brynner and Dimitrievitch released a record album "The Gypsy and I - Yul Brynner Sings Gypsy Songs" (Vanguard VSD 79265).…

.Menyhért LAKATOS ( HU, 1926 - 2007 ).....

Un enfant grandit, écartelé, entre sa communauté tzigane de naissance et la société hongroise dans laquelle il est scolarisé. Au fil d’une histoire haletante et dramatique, il apprendra qu’on ne peut accepter sa propre identité dans toute sa complexité que par la confrontation, douloureuse, avec l’autre. Si Couleur de fumée a obtenu en quelques années une consécration internationale, c’est parce que Menyhért Lakatos a su tirer de son…

...by Damian LE BAS (born 1963, living/working in Sheffield / UK)...

...is a British artist associated with the Outsider art (or "Art Brut") label. Since 1987 several of Le Bas' pieces are held in the Musgrave-Kinley Collection of works by key Outsider artists, administered by Monika Kinley, until her death in 2014.

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