TWO DAYS ROMA FESTIVAL "ROMA-EMBER AGAINST RACISM"

Alte Kaserne Zürich Switzerland, 20 and 21 June 2014

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Painting by Gabi Jimenez:

"Les camps - pendus"

(The camps -

hanging)

Next Monday the UN Holocaust commemoration will take place.…

Eight months ago Roma Rights Defender Pavel Limanskiy was arrested in Russia. Accused of attacking the police that came to arrest him without proper documentation. Since that very day Pavel finds himself in pre-trial detention.

Today members of Khetanes sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin. We were in a hurry to contact co-signers. There are 22 now. There could have easily been 44 or more, but we needed to send the letter and count on your understanding for…

On 28 May 2013 the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission published on internet the list of Projects Granted.

In total 26 projects will receive a grant from the Europe For Citizens Programme; none of these 26 projects deals with Roma and Sinti! Our Face the Music project, grant application submitted on 31 January, has been rejected, in spite of the warm welcome we received in Brussels in 2012.

See for more…

At the occasion of the International Roma Day, Commissioner László Andor of the European Commission visited the Fresco Village of Bódvalenke on Friday, 5 April 2013. The attention from the (inter)national press was overwhelming. Present on the spot were local and Roma regional leaders and representatives of major NGOs with Roma integration programmes, based in 8 diferent EU countries. Also Hungarian Minister Zoltán Balog took the floor.

Just a couple of days…

Below you will find parts in English and German from the Hungarian column by Zsolt Bayer, founder-member of the Hungarian ruling Fidesz Party and confident and personal friend of Prime-Minister Viktor Orbán. The column was published on 5 January 2013 in the Magyar Hirlap.

By the end of 2012 there was a scandal on a Hungarian textbook by Prof.…

Sarenge,

Second half of October 2012 we posted the page below on Khetanes. It is from a book by Professor Géza Jeszenszky, a historian, also a welknown Hungarian politician and internationally active.

In Professor Jeszenszky's book, that students at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary, are required to study(!), Roma are called mentally ill.

Quote from the book: "The reason why many Roma are mentally ill…

Savorrenge, kuch phralale, phenjale

After two years of hard work by many volunteers, World Artists Initiative "Khetanes" is now offering opportunities to present itself in public. This autumn, grant applications for Cultural and Media projects will be prepared for the years ahead. I understand that some of you are discouraged, and maybe even depressed, by the rise of the far right and by the ongoing violations of our civil and human…