discrimination

'We want to be with the white kids'

vero — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:42:44 +0100

AIDS Out Life In

Abhi — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:12:35 +0100

The future belongs to young people ...

and it is us who will be affected most by the decisions we take today on Aids/HIV epidemic, climate change, food, energy, environmental degradation, economic stability and the continuing challenge of world poverty.

Such decisions will influence the shape and quality of our future lives and could even dictate how long we will live. So it is very important that us, as individuals and as a group, take a keen interest in these issues now – and make absolutely sure our views are heard

Source: AIDS Out Life In

Slovak PM: boarding schools only way to help Roma

The Darkhorse — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:20:13 +0000

BRATISLAVA, March 8 (Reuters) - Slovakia's prime minister said on Monday children of the European Union member's large Roma minority must be taken from their impoverished settlements and put into boarding schools to hasten integration.

Source: Slovak PM: boarding schools only way to help Roma

Slovakia plans to remove Romani children from their families

The Darkhorse — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:17:21 +0000

Amnesty International has warned that establishing boarding schools for Romani children “and gradually detach[ing] them from the way of living they currently experience in the settlements“ is discriminatory and a blatant attack on the Roma way of living.

Source: Slovakia plans to remove Romani children from their families

Be proud of your A levels. We’re just jealous

Niluccio — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:06:05 +0100

I’m at the Edinburgh Festival, hosting a nightly variety show. Earlier this week there was a crowd that, owing to the quirks of unreserved seating, featured a large group of over-50s to my right and a similarly sized group of teenagers to my left. This led to much banter of a generation gap nature.

Source: Be proud of your A levels. We’re just jealous

Workers' Rights

Joakimprojekt`s — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:37:03 +0100

Killing spree leaves albinos living in fear

fionamc — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:48:49 +0000

It is a sanctuary on the vast waters of Lake Victoria, a safe haven amid a gathering storm of killings. White-skinned albinos, known here as "ghosts", are being hunted down by their own people, harvested for body parts by those who believe they will add potency to black magic rituals.

Source: Killing spree leaves albinos living in fear

History repeating

Niluccio — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:51:34 +0100

This is an article my father would rather I didn't write. "You want to watch it, you know," he has said to me, more than once. "If you're not careful, you'll get a brick through your window." In the working-class area of Peterborough where my father grew up during the 20s and 30s, it probably wasn't wise to mention that you had Romany blood, however distant.

Source: History repeating