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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...
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...
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 ...
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
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 ...
FSG as contributing author
Executive summary. Roma Students in secondary education in Spain. A comparative study
This executive summary is a synthesis of the main results of the survey entitled “El alumnado gitano en Secundaria. Un estudio comparado” which was conducted in response to the need for updated data on the educational status of Roma students in secondary school which can be compared with the official data for the general population...
Technical papers
The educational situation of Roma Students in Spain Executive summary
This study analyses the educational situation of Roma students in Spain, comparing it with the data obtained in 2012 and with the situation of the general students population in Spain. The data reflect a harsh, shocking reality.Educational progress is the main tool for Roma people to access a dignified life and, unfortunately, poverty and social exclusion still hit them hard (the poverty rate among the Roma population is 87.4% and the child poverty rate is 86.8%). Therefore, there is no choice ...
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
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...
Technical papers
Study on the impact of the Minimum Income on poverty among the Roma in Spain Executive Summary, 2023
This study on The Impact of the Minimum Income on poverty among the Roma in Spain is an initiative of Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) and has been carried out by the Fundación Iseak and FSG with funding from the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 under the 0.7 Subsidies for activities of social interest in 2023. The main objective was to carry out a nationwide investigative study on the scope and impact of the provision of the Minimum Income (MI) to Spanish Roma households, both in ...
Technical papers
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...
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Celebrating 600 years since the arrival of the Roma people
There are thought to be around 750-thousand Roma people settled in Spain, although the true number is unknown. And there's a lot about the community that is unknown to the Spanish public at large. This is just one of the reasons why the Spanish Government chose 2025 to celebrate the 600th anniversaryof the arrival of the Roma community in the Iberian Peninsula. In this broadcast, we celebrate this anniversary with Rafael Saavedra, from the Secretariado GitanoFoundation, who joined us from our ...
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...
Annual Reports
Annual Report´06 FSG
Versión en inglés de la Memoria Anual de la FSG, durante el año 2006...
Technical papers
Roma, travellers and discrimination. A transnational study
Versión en inglés del estudio "Gitanos y discriminación. Un estudio transnacional...