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Rom Organizations
Rom Publications
Rom Links by Country
Since the Rom are a truly international people, the world wide web has proven an ideal tool for them to keep in contact with each other. There are hundreds of websites, chatrooms and e-mail lists operating in Romani and/or the language of their home country. Here are a few different sites (mainly in English), which provide an overview of Romani culture, history, politics, language, music and plain everyday life. Most of these sites have links to other sites if you want to take your research further.
ROM ORGANIZATIONS
Decade of Roma Inclusion - This film is dedicated to The Decade of Roma Inclusion - an initiative adopted by eight countries in Central and Southeast Europe working with the World Band & Soros/Open Society Institute to change the lives of Roma in Europe.
http://www.romadecade.org
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/roma
Cambridge Review of International Affairs - Special Romani issue (taking
its name from the title of American Gypsy) with extracts from academic essays on Roma in world politics
www.cria.org.uk
DMOZ open directory - comprehensive lists of Rom-related sites clearly organized
in all categories: arts, education, news etc.
http://dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/Romani/
European Committee on Romani Emancipation - based in Belgium, this European
organization strives to achieve social and economic inclusion of European Rom. Has up-to-date news
on Roma campaigns and politics.
http://www.eu-romani.org/index.html
ERRC/European Roma Rights Center - an impressive organization in Budapest, Hungary,
that actively protests anti-Romani racism throughout Europe. Constantly updated site with news,
journals, grant & employment resource lists, and links to many others.
www.errc.org
Gypsies and Travellers, books published by the University of Hertfordshire Press
www.herts.ac.uk/UHPress/Gypsies.html
Patrin - an outstanding site about Romani culture and history, with links to many other sites
www.geocities.com/~patrin/patrin.htm
Photographs by Rana Halprin - Roma from California to Italy, over the past 25 years
www.photomythology.com
The Romani Archives - Based at the University of Texas the Romani Archives is a resource collection consisting of several thousand books, monographs, articles, manuscripts, audio and video recordings, prints, paintings and other artifacts, all produced by or about Roma and Travellers.
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~liez476/
Voice of Roma - an international organisation based in the San Francisco Bay Area and founded by the family of a Romani man from Kosovo, to organize, promote and provide educational, cultural and charitable projects for and about Roma (e.g. concerts, community, advocacy, immigration, human rights).
www.VoiceOfRoma.com
ROM PUBLICATIONS
Romani Lessons - a booklet and audio cassette package of 40 Vlax Romani (Kalderash dialect)
lessons is available through the Western Canadian Romani Alliance.
Contact: celtrom@uniserve.com
Romani National Congress - the RNC is the federation of the Romani Civil and Human
Rights Movement. Based in Germany, this site contains news and information about Romani current
affairs from all over the world.
http://www.romanationalcongress.org/
Romnews Network - current news, politics, history and hundreds of links to further sites.
www.romnews.com
Romani Org homepage - lots of links and historical / political essays
www.romani.org
Roma Rights - Roma Rights is published quarterly in English & Romani by the ERRC.
A recent edition: http://www.errc.org/Archivum_index.php
"The Pariah Syndrome" By Dr. Ian Hancock - a seminal history of the Romani people.
Online edition of this book at:
www.geocities.com/Paris/5121/pariah-contents.htm
ROM LINKS BY COUNTRY
Canadian Roma Community and Advocacy Center.
News and information of current Romani events and courses in Canada.
http://www.rcctoronto.org
Canadian journal about Romani events and culture - Romani Lil
http://romani.org/toronto/RomanoLil.html
Czech Republic Roma - a comprehensive and regularly updated website run by a team from Radio Prague.
www.radio.cz/roma
Dom Research Center - fascinating site devoted to Middle Eastern and North
African Gypsy communities. Contains articles, publications and news on humanitarian projects.
http://www.domresearchcenter.com/
The Gypsy Council - A national English Romany association devoted to providing Gypsy
education, culture, welfare and civil Rights.
http://www.btinternet.com/~thegypsycouncil/
English site devoted to Romany and Traveller family history
http://website.lineone.net/~rtfhs/
French site dedicated to Romani culture - Balval
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/balval/
French music site with a focus on manouche jazz and other guitar music
http://lechodescuilleres.free.fr/
Hungarian Romani website
www.romapage.c3.hu
Irish Traveller human rights organization - Pavee Point. This site is a great
source of information about Irish Traveller-Gypsy culture.
http://www.paveepoint.ie/pav_home_a.html
Italian website about Roma worldwide
http://perso.infonie.fr/mayvon/prefere.html
Kosovo Rom - information and photos of the large Romani community that lived in
Kosovo for centuries before the recent war killed and evicted thousands of long-established Romani
citizens. (Site in English or German.)
http://194.8.216.150:9080/inhalt.htm
Kosovo Rom VIDEO - 'Purano Manush' is a first edit of a video by an Indian filmmaker who visits Roma in Kosovo and puts a very human face on the situation there. (40 mins)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3700635701630417340&q=&hl=en
Romania - Romani Criss website. (Roma Center for Social Intervention and Studies).
Contains database of Roma human rights cases.
http://www.romanicriss.ro/
Romanian Roma resource site containing information on a broad range of Romani topics.
http://www.romanothan.ro/
Spanish site about Roma - Union Romani
www.unionromani.org
Swedish Roma - a small website with a couple of essays.
http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-69051/romapeople.html
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