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• - Anti-facist action in Dover, England protesting National Front activities against Roma asylum seekers in the UK.
  
• - Article by Hana Cápová relating the plight of Romani families relocated to the Na Liščině settlement, the decline of the city, and "white" flight.
  
• - Paper by Cara Feys, originally published in the Journal of Public and International Affairs, 1997. Includes notes.
  
• - Concerning the New Jersey state legislature's repeal of that state's "anti-Gypsy" law, from The Guide, March 1998.
  
• - By Klara Orgovanova for Slovakia.org.
  
• - From the Greek Helsinki Monitor.
  
• - By Ian Hancock.
  
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• - By Peter Mulder.
  
• - An account of the widely publicised 1993 case of violence against Roma in Romania.
  
• - Identification of key issues from the Cambridgeshire Travellers Research Project, United Kingdom.
  
• - Around 25% of women prison inmates in Spain are Roma women, an overrepresentation 20 times greater than the general population. An analysis of this reality, and oriented towards promoting actions against a serious violation of human rights.
  
• - Paper by Toma Tomov, addresses the issue of violence and social institutions involved in the catering for the public needs in the period of social change following the collapse of the totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on the Roma.
  
• - From the Spunk Library.
  
• - by Gilad Margalit, from the SICSA, Israel.
  
• - By Margaret Donaghy. Examination of a report how Travellers, like their Gypsy counterparts in mainland Europe, suffer from governmental discrimination and indifference to their suffering.
  
• - Sweden's forced sterilisation policy, by Laurence Jourdan.
  
• - From Radio Netherlands.
  
• - Second Edition, 1998, from the Open Society Institute, Forced Migration Projects.
  
• - Roma in Slovakia.
  
• - From the Patrin Web Journal.
  
• - From the Office of the Czech Republic Government.
  
• - Project examines the overrepresentation of Roma women in Spanish prisons. Financed by Initiative Daphne, Task Force of the European Commission and directed by the Association LA KALLE of Madrid, in Spanish and English.
  
• - From The Economist.
  
• - Reported by Eva Sobotková, from the hCa Roma Section seminar entitled "Citizenship and legislation in the light of the recent Roma exodus and the political situation in Central and Eastern Europe," 1998.
  
• - By Helen O'Nions, 1999.
  
• - Report of Roma rights in Bulgaria from Amnesty International.
  
• - A Traveller-led development organisation based in Cork, Ireland.
  
• - From the Internet Center for Anti-Racism Europe.
  
• - By Richard M. Clewett, Jr., 1999.
  
• - Analysis by Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
  
• - Hearing at Washington, D.C., presided by the Hon. Christopher H. Smith, July 21, 1998.
  
• - New Presence article by Fedor Gál, March 1997.
  
• - From Human Rights Watch, August 1999.
  
• - The present frictions in Czech-Roma relations have complex and deep-seated causes, from the Central Europe Review.
  
• - An article critical of provision of the 1994 law which impose hardships on Gypsies and Travellers in the UK.
  
• - "As our brothers are fleeing the chaos in Kosovo, they are living as unwanted 'guests' in surrounding countries. It is only with a strong and independent Epirus that our people from all over the region will have a place to call home. A country in w
  
• - By Jake Bowers-Burbridge, UK.
  
• - From the Czech Center, New York.
  
• - By Puri Ruíz. From European Culture Digest reports how governments and local authorities may be partly responsible for the early deaths of a people that contributes hugely to Spanish society.
  
• - From www.radicalparty.org.
  
• - From the European Roma Rights Center Newsletter, Spring 1998.
  
• - By Helen O'Nions. Examines a 'Gypsy case' challenging UK legislation.
  
• - From European Journalism Centre Publications: Reporting ethnic minorities and ethnic conflict - beyond good or evil.
  
• - By Jirina Siklova and Marta Miklusakova, 1998.
  
• - Conditions in Bulgaria, by Tom Giles, from the Spring 1995 issue of SLANT.
  
• - By Ian Hancock.
  
• - Anti-Roma sentiment permeates Slovak society from top to bottom. The British Government has just introduced visa requirements for migrants from Slovakia but asylum applicants are never granted visas, November 1998.
  
• - From the European Roma Rights Center.
  
• - By Reska.
  
• - Report from the Columbia Law School, November 1997.
  
• - Commentary about the Roma and the gadje in the Czech Republic, by Fedor Gál. (1997)
  
• - By Steve Staines of Friends, Families and Travellers Support Group.
  
• - From the University of Wisconsin.
  
• - By Zana Russell, Canada.
  
• - A national network of organisations and individuals working within the Traveller community in Ireland.
  
• - By Helen O'Nions. Examines the rationale behind 'anti-Gypsy' legislation and explores why attempts to assimilate Roma are destined to fail.
  
• - From the U.S. Department of State's Annual Country Reports on Human Rights for Calendar Year 1998.
  
• - From the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly.
  
• - From the Anthropology of East Europe Review, Autumn 1995.
  
• - Jeremy Corbyn MP outlines the plight of Roma refugees in the UK.
  
• - By Elzbieta M. Gozdziak. From the Anthropology of East Europe Review. The plight of Romanians in Poland, Roma (Gypsies) caught in the crossfire.
  
• - By Shani Rifati.
  
• - By Peter Mulder, 1999.
  
• - East European Roma asylum seekers in UK.
  
• - By F. Wessely and M. Lastarria.
  
• - Edited by Jean-Pierre Ligeois and Nicholas Gheorge, from Minority Rights Group International.