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Discrimination and the Roma Community 2024 In Depth: FSG: 20 years fighting against discrimination and antigypsyism
Fundación Secretariado Gitano presents in Madrid its 20th Annual Report ‘Discrimination and the Roma Community’.Dedicated to the analysis of the progress and challenges of anti-discrimination policies over the last 20 years.This year the report includes 384 cases of discrimination and antigypsyism dealt with by FSG in 2023...
Technical papers
Discrimination and the Roma Community 2023 In Depth: Anti-Roma collective persecution
Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) presented in Seville its 19th Annual Report "Discrimination and the Roma Community" with the main theme dedicated to collective anti-Roma harassment, such as the cases that occurred in Íllora (Granada) and Peal de Becerro (Jaén) last year.This year's report presents 532 cases of discrimination and antigypsyism dealt with by FSG in 2022, in which the discriminatory nature of the incidents reported by the victims has been proven. The cases are dealt with within ...
Technical papers
Discrimination and the Roma Community. FSG Annual Report 2021 The impact of the pandemic on discrimination and antigypsyism
The total number of cases in this year’s report is 364, a drop of 58 on the previous year. The drop in cases is mostly because in 2020, the European Commission Code of Conduct did not perform a monitoring round on countering illegal hate speech online, which FSG has been participating in as a trusted flagger for the past six years. FSG usually reports more than 100 cases of anti-Roma hate speech in these monitoring rounds, which this year are absent from our report. However, we have ...
Technical papers
Discrimination and the Roma Community 2022 Discriminatory bias in the use of artificial intelligence and its impact on the Roma community.
The Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) presented its 18th Annual Report "Discrimination and the Roma Community". The focus of the report is the Discriminatory bias in the use of artificial intelligence and its impact on the Roma community.The report includes 554 cases of discrimination and antigypsyism reported and assisted by the FSG in 2021.The report's conclusions highlight the increase in Roma awareness of the discrimination they suffer, although there are still barriers that limit the ...
Working materials
The Covid-19 Crisis and Anti-Roma Hate Speech Analysis through case studies of the origins, dissemination and impact upon people
In the context of the social and healthcare crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the declaration of a State of Alarm in Spain, the Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) notes and deplores a large number of cases of stigmatisation perpetrated by the communications media and on occasion by political figures. These cases involve rumours and fake news stories which blame minority groups for the pandemic and its spread, or for violating the rules of quarantine, in alarmist language which links ...
Technical papers
Evaluation of the results and impact of the Calí Programme, for the Equality of Roma Women (2016-2023) Executive Summary
The purpose of this external evaluation is to analyse and assess the results and impact obtained and thus to issue global assessments on the utility and achievements of the Calí Programme, for the Equality of Roma Women...
Discrimination and the Roma Community. FSG Annual Reports FSG
As it has done every year since 2005, Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) is publishing its Annual Report “Discrimination and the Roma Community”, with the aim of offering some specific data and verified cases of discrimination that show that for many Roma people in this country, the right to equal treatment is not a reality...
FSG as contributing author
The unheard 12 million The unstoppable voices of Roma and Traveller Women
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O'Flaherty, has published The Unheard 12 Million, a book accompanied by a photographic exhibition, with the aim of denouncing the persistent situation of exclusion, discrimination and hatred suffered by Roma in Europe, and calling on policy makers to take action to guarantee their fundamental rights. FSG is listed as one of the leading organisations working with the Roma population in Spain...
FSG as contributing author
Barabaripen Young Roma speak about multiple discrimination
“Barabaripen” es el resultado de un proyecto en el que se incluyen varias entrevistas y reuniones con jóvenes gitanos de ocho países europeos: Albania, República Checa, Hungría, Rumania, Serbia, Eslovaquia, España y Reino Unido. En dicha investigación, jóvenes gitanos y gitanas comparten sus historias personales de discriminación múltiple. Cada historia de vida se acompaña de un resumen para el aprendizaje y preguntas para reflexión...
Working materials
Checklist for the Effective Inclusion of Roma interventions within EU Cohesion Funds programming 2021-2027
Guidance for the Departments Responsible for Programming EU Cohesion Funds in the Member States and the EU. The EURoma Network, for which the Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) acts as Technical Secretariat, presents this document for those responsible for programming the European Funds to ensure that the measures to be implemented within the new 2021–2027 programming period have a real impact and effectively contribute to reducing the exclusion and discrimination faced by the Roma ...
Technical papers
Discrimination and the Roma community 2020 FSG Annual Report
As it has done every year since 2005, Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) presents its XVI Annual Report “Discrimination and the Roma Community”, to shine a continued light on discrimination, antiGypsyism and violations of the right to equal treatment that Roma people in our country still face. This year, the report focuses on discrimination in employment, to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Acceder programme that FSG is celebrating this year. The programme, recognised by ...
Annual Reports
FSG Annual Report 2019 (Summary Leaflet)
The Fundación Secretariado Gitano releases its Annual Report 2019 which provides an overview of the initiatives undertaken in 2019 at Spanish and European level to fulfil its mission: the comprehensive advancement of the Roma community based on respect for their cultural identity. We seek equal opportunities, personal advancement and social change...
Annual Reports
FSG Annual Report 2018
The Fundación Secretariado Gitano releases its Annual Report 2018 which provides an overview of the initiatives undertaken in 2018 at Spanish and European level to fulfil its mission: the comprehensive advancement of the Roma community based on respect for their cultural identity. We seek equal opportunities, personal advancement and social change. Check the Summary Leaflet and the Video More detailed information is available in the online version of the Annual Report 2018 http://www.gitanos....
Technical papers
Study of the characteristics and circumstances of people living in slum and substandard housing settlements in Spain Executive summary
Even in the second decade of the 21st century, Spain still faces a structural problem: the presence of slum and substandard housing settlements inwhich families live in situations of extreme vulnerability. The mere existence of these settlements represents a violation of basic rights, with a possible discriminatory element given the overrepresentation of certain social groups. The settlements’ continued existence also entrenches the situation of inequality and extreme poverty of their ...
Technical papers
The Social View of the Roma People in Spain
Through this study, we have been able to review the main areas of social life (employment, housing, education, culture, discrimination, gender differences, etc.) and we have found that the Roma remain largely unknown to a large part of the non-Roma Spanish population, which translates, among other things, into the persistence of certain stereotypes about the Roma that continue to weigh heavily and are at the root of discriminatory situations faced by Roma in their daily lives. In short, this ...