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Invite to Participate: The Impact of Discrimination on Canada's Roma Minority
Invite to Participate: The Impact of Discrimination on Canada's Roma Minority

If you are Romani we invite you to talk to us! If you live in Toronto or Hamilton and are Romani please connect with us. The interviews will be done on the phone, online, or in person. Interviews are 45 min long. You don’t have to use your real name. You will receive a $25 gift card to say thank you! […]

New Partnership with Harvard University
New Partnership with Harvard University

The Canadian Romani Alliance is delighted to share that we are beginning an exciting new community partnership with Harvard University. The goal is to research and document discrimination experienced by Roma in Canada[...]

LAW PROFS & CONSUMER ADVOCATES TO INVESTIGATE RACIAL PROFILING OF AIR PASSENGERS
LAW PROFS & CONSUMER ADVOCATES TO INVESTIGATE RACIAL PROFILING OF AIR PASSENGERS

Announcement: New funding received by York University’s Refugee Law Lab to work with Air Passenger Rights and University of New Brunswick law professor to investigate racial profiling by Canadian government at airports abroad […]

Montreal Auschwitz survivor to be honoured for bearing witness to the Roma genocide
Montreal Auschwitz survivor to be honoured for bearing witness to the Roma genocide

Long after he started a new life in Montreal, Paul Herczeg was still bearing witness to the final moments of thousands of Roma sent to their deaths at Auschwitz in a single night in 1944. For decades, well into his 80s, he volunteered with the Montreal Holocaust Museum, meeting with school groups, giving media interviews, contributing to virtual exhibitions and oral history projects [...]

Canadian government officially recognizes Romani genocide
Canadian government officially recognizes Romani genocide

Montreal-based groups welcomed last week’s unanimous consent motion by Canada recognizing the genocide of the Romani population by the Nazis during World War II, 76 years ago [...]

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