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• They are from India

• Left India around 1000, and started to live nomadic life

• From that time they are travelling all around the world

• The Roma are the biggest ethnic minority in central and eastern Europe, estimated at about five million people. They are also the poorest of the poor.

• In 1990 142,683 persons stated that they were Gypsies. According to the most reliable estimates their number is currently 450,000 - 500,000.

• The whole poulation is 10 million peole

• From this there are 500000 roma people, which is 5 % of the whole population

•Population: 38 million people•Gypsies: 12.6% = 30 000 people of the whole population

• Despite an improvement in the state of housing, 14% of Gypsies still live on separated sites. (The construction program of basic housing was concluded in 1988). Many Gypsy families are unable to cope with the burden of their mortgage payments (which have risen) and the cost of maintaining their homes

• Many examples are showing us that mostly the children are not going to school, because they rather stay at home for some reason

Mr Jakob Mirga in the Romani settlement in Maszkowice, southern Poland. Mr Mirga regularly reports attacks by local non-Roma to the local authorities. He told the ERRC that non-Roma in his town are never prosecuted for anti-Romani crimes. photo: ERRC

• Violence against Gypsies is very common:

• In hospitals

• Schools

• Public transports etc.

• The problem is in the roots of the society

• The societys approach should be changed somehow

• We should realize that every human beeing is equal

• Acknowledge differences between those who are working on the antioppressive project (concerned clients and carers)

• Locate individual problems within a social context

• We should use the media

• Such as: advertisements, short films about getting to know their culture, with the aim, that the people would see them equal to everyone

• 1990 April 18: The first Romanian Gypsy newspaper, Satra Libera (Free Camp), begins publication with a startling caricature of a Gypsy slave girl breaking out of her chains on the front page.

• One of the most famous bands in Hungary is the gypsy music band with 100 members.

• Their lifestyle is strange for us, ours is strange for them… we oppress them because of they are different…