FSG participates in the presentation of the annual International Amnesty report [editar]

The report highlights the plight of discrimination against the Roma community in Europe, with cases of extreme gravity and forced sterilizations carried out against Roma women in the Czech Republic or continued school segregation for Roma children in many countries of Eastern Europe.

Forced evictions carried out against Roma were a fact that has been repeated in many countries, including some of those considered defending Human Rights as France.

Access to basic rights such as education or health care still refusing to European Roma community, what makes them go deeper in its situation of poverty and marginalization.

In the case of Sweden, the report denounces the illegal data base of Skåne Swedish police containing detailed information on 4,000 Roma with no other apparent reason than their ethnicity.

However, in this report presentation, FSG expressed concern at not finding explicit referrals about the discrimination suffering the Spanish Roma community. The more so, considering the serious events over the past year in the towns of Estepa and Castellar.

Similarly, the report does not include other serious case, given its institutional character, such as the Real Academia de la Lengua, did not withdraw the previous offensive references in the meaning of the word gitano, but in the new edition of the dictionary they changed the meaning to call the entire Roma community “trapacero” (tricky) . Both cases are reported and are tracked by FSG.