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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
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 ...
Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Roma population
Results of a survey of 11,000 participants in programmes organised by the Fundacion Secretariado Gitano...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Technical papers
Exploratory pilot study on school segregation of Roma students Executive summary
This executive summary provides a synthesis of the main results of a research study on the segregation of Roma pupils, carried out between January 2020 and July 2021, and culminating in the publication of the Exploratory pilot study on school segregation of Roma students1 by the Ministry of Education...
