HEALTH visits an emergency shelter camp on the outskirts of the French capital where the association “Medecins du Monde” stepped in to offer shelter and medical assistance to a group of Roma who had nowhere to go.
After a difficult year during which Jessica Hardy was banned from competing, the American swimmer has come back in style to set a world record of 1:4:45 in the 100m breaststroke on Friday at the US Open Championship.
Despite Romania’s entry into the European Union, the Roma people are not wanted in several European countries. FRANCE 24’s Sarah Leduc reports from the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis.
FRANCE 24’s reporter went to meet gypsies in Russia. Considered second class citizens, they are victims of numerous discriminations. This report was filmed in Chudovo, south of Saint-Petersburg.
Demonstrators, in the hundreds of thousands, marched through the streets of Rome on Saturday in a protest organised by the CGIL, Italy’s largest trade union, against Silvio Berlusconi’s government’s response to the economic crisis.
Legal and illegal immigrants across Europe - from Amsterdam to the Spanish north-African enclave of Melilla, Roma residents, workers and mixed-nationality couples: all struggle to lead normal lives.
Right-wing extremist groups clashed with police in the Hungarian capital late on Saturday, after attacking peaceful demonstrations by anti-racist groups in the city centre.
The European Union this week hosted its first meeting to address the problems for the Roma community, which suffers from discrimination. In Italy, for example, the government has proposed fingerprinting Roma, both adults and children.
EU and Roma community leaders on Tuesday sought to discuss the difficulties encountered by one of Europe's biggest minorities. The meeting comes amid controversy over Italian steps to fingerprint the country's Roma residents.
In late August, a Roma slum north of Paris was evacuated to make way for new council flats. Some families were re-housed in a resettlement camp. Some agreed to return to Romania on state-sponsored flights. Others simply disappeared.
