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Cyrine Sinti is a writer who is passionate about Gypsy rights and raising awareness of the prejudice faced by Gypsies in Europe. She tweets @CyrineSinti. Enas Magzoub is a Sudanese political activist, who has sat on Labour’s Scottish Executive Commit

I, like so many others, have Zoom fatigue. But every Tuesday evening since September, I’ve been genuinely excited to log on to a beginners’ class in Romanes. Te aven bachtale conveys a profoundly respectful ‘good day’. I’ve also just learned the colo

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James Cunningham (Letters, NI 534) cites World War Two and the Falklands as arguments against disarmament. He does not mention Suez, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan, or earlier aggressive wars where Britain has used its greater power to invade or coloni

A love of reading can be life-changing for children. Reading helps imaginations bloom, nurtures a sense of empathy, and supports children to find their own voice and tell their own stories. I write poems and stories for children and often visit schoo

In the wake of tragic drownings in the English Channel last November, the images and life stories of some of the 27 men, women and children, mostly Iraqi Kurds, who died trying to reach Britain, emerged in the press. In step, politicians like UK Home

Norway’s newly elected prime minster is no stranger to the management of political power. The election of 61-year-old Støre can be seen as part of a larger swing back to the moderate Left in northern Europe in general, and Scandinavia in particular a

In another eye-roll inducing event, billionaire Elon Musk in November promised to write a $6 billion cheque to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), on condition that it could prove the cash would finally ‘solve world hunger’. A back-and-for

Tinashe Nyamudoka had never tasted wine in his life when in 2009 he embarked on a 4000-kilometre journey south as an economic refugee from Zimbabwe to the city of Cape Town, the wine capital of neighbouring South Africa. Today, Nyamudoka is a boister

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Teenagers are defying the Taliban’s resurgent war on women by homeschooling girls. Since taking power last August, the Taliban has thrown girls’ education into chaos, telling female students to stay at home, closing many schools and reopening others

At a time when millions of Iranian lives relied on Covid-19 vaccines being consistently refrigerated, the summer of 2021 was marked by frequent, dangerous power outages. Power cuts are hardly unusual in Iran, but these were caused by a new phenomenon

The first ever issue in 1970 carried an interview with the President of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere. He had argued that 10 per cent of all overseas aid should be spent on educating the ‘first world’ about the real causes of world poverty. We wanted to s

In Mexico City long-running protests against a Christopher Columbus statue have seen him removed from a prominent boulevard. A replica of a pre-Hispanic sculpture of an indigenous woman, known as ‘The Young Woman of Amajac’, has been chosen to replac

Authorities began passing ‘anti-gypsy’ legislation in the Middle Ages. But as expulsion and continuous displacement served only to exacerbate the fears and resentment of settled communities, over time governments and professional guilds started to pu

Stanislav Tomáš dies in Teplice after a police officer kneels on his neck for five minutes. Footage uploaded to YouTube. Police insist Tomáš was no ‘Czech Floyd’. Czech deputy public defender of rights announces investigation. Memorial gathering for

errc.org Europe-wide organization and think tank iromaniunion.org Longstanding campaign-group redi-ngo.eu NGO supporting Roma entrepreneurs facebook.com/konexe facebook.com/konexeinenglish Volunteer-led NGO and campaign group romanolav.org Govanhill

Historians believe this is when Roma departed from the Indian sub-continent. The Romani language suggests a prolonged co-existence with the Greek-speaking population in the Byzantine Empire. With the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, Roma migrate int

State institutions across Czechoslovakia began unlawfully sterilizing Roma women in 1966. In 1971, a directive introduced by the Czech legislature, the devolved parliament for the Czech Republic within the then-federated Czechoslovakia, gave local au

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When British troops drove out their Turkish and German enemies and marched into Baghdad in 1917, their commander announced to locals that they came not as conquerors or enemies – but as liberators. ‘Your city and your lands have been subject to the t

Iraq’s oil-dependent economy plummeted further during Covid-19, with poverty rising to over 30%. As many Iraqis see it, the country has two classes: rich and poor. Literacy in Iraq has progressed to 85% (females 79% and males 91%), above its pre-conf

We are over the moon to be rated as one of the top online ethical retailers and recommended as a Best Buy Label by Ethical Consumer Magazine. We’ve been talking about trading fairly, promoting organic food, using more recycled materials and keeping t

LEADER: Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhim. ECONOMY: GNI per capita: $9,660 (Jordan $10,320, UK $47,620). Monetary unit: Iraqi Dinar (1 IQD = $0.0006). Main exports: Iraq is the world’s seventh biggest producer and exporter of oil. Plus gold and other

Anyone who thinks that romantic stories set in Nairobi are implausible simply has not spent enough time in the city’s parks. The thought occurred to me this weekend as I ambled through the Nairobi Arboretum, a cultivated forest of trees from all over

‘The garbage truck gives me my daily bread,’ a woman explains, speaking to camera in Fortaleza, one of the most important cities in the Brazilian northeast. ‘Every day, my children and I go through the garbage to eat. When the truck arrives, we have

‘Today, I am sorry to say this, lots of modern women in India want to stay single,’ declared the health minister of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. ‘Even if they get married, they don’t want to give birth. They want surrogacy. So, there is a

by Juhea Kim (One World Publications, ISBN 9780861543229) oneworld-publications.com Korea, 1917, and on the eve of the Japanese invasion a young girl is sold by her desperate family to a school for courtesans in Pyongyang. She meets and befriends an

Imagine you had a co-worker who spent 99 per cent of their time at work telling everyone else how great they were. In the other 1 per cent of the time their work was, at best, mediocre. When they messed up, they claimed that it wasn’t their fault. Th