Opre Roma

The Gazette’s photos of the week: June 29 – July 5, 2014, by Marcos Townsend, Montreal Gazette (blog), 8 July 2014 Les Roms sont-ils toujours bienvenus au Canada? Radio Canada, 5 juillet 2014 Sursis pour une famille rom menacée d’expulsion, Le Devoir, 3 juillet 2014 Roma family gets reprieve, Montreal Gazette, 3 July 2014 Roma family granted stay of deportation on humanitarian grounds, rabble.ca, 3 July 2014 La famille rom menacée d’expulsion obtient un sursis, Radio Canada, 2 juillet 2014 Une famille rom menacée d’expulsion obtient un sursis, La Presse, 2 juillet 2014 Roma family in Montreal granted a stay...

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Rrom protiv deportaciya Montreal Roma Community Meeting against deportations A montreali Roma közösség deportálás elleni találkozója Zhowine, Djunio 27, Ka l’ 6:30 ande ryat, 1500 de Maisonneuve O, #204 Metro Guy-Concordia Rromale. pushav tumendar te aven ka o kidimos le Rromenge kai beshen ando Montreal thai sa lenge wortacha  kai kamen te maren-pe and’ekh than protivo e deportatsiya/tradimos pe strazha le Rroma kai si azilanturya ande Kanada thai te das azhutimos ka l’ Rroma ando amaro komuniteto kai si len problemi ande lenge imigratsiyake mangimata. Shai las sama tumare shavorrendar ivya thai-vi si tsino xabe ivya Tolmachimos/parruyimos...

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Tibor and Renata Buzas and their three children, Tibor (13), Mercedesz (11) and Lili (9), arrived in Canada in November 2011. They left behind a pattern of racist violence in their native Hungary, and hoped for a better and safer life in Canada, where they claimed asylum. The neo-Nazi movement in Hungary, targeting Romas and Jews, has strengthened in the past years. In 2008-2009, a campaign of terror was unleashed, with racists killing at least six Romas, fire-bombing houses and terrorizing Roma villages in north-eastern Hungary. Videos show the Hungarian Guard, a fascist black-uniformed militia openly patrolling Roma neighbourhoods....

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Montreal, 30 June 2014 I would like to ask for your help! We are the Buzas family. The future of our three children depend on this decision about our application for permanent residence on humanitarian grounds. We arrived in Canada, in Montreal, in November, 2011. We fled from Hungary because the future and lives of my children were at stake. Each day, they suffered from mental and physical abuse at school. No mother can tolerate that. In Hungary, Roma children face discrimination from a very young age, from kindergarten. They don’t get the same treatment and opportunities as their...

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Osgoode Law School, No Refuge: Hungarian Romani Refugee Claimants in Canada (2015). CBC, Deported Roma have little chance of return, Feb 08, 2016. Background about treatment of Roma in Hungary and Canada , Solidarity Across Borders, 2015 François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard University, Accelerating Patterns of Anti-Roma Violence in Hungary, 14 February 2014 “Without a Chance,” a documentary produced by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and released on January 7, 2014 can be viewed here. Decade of Roma Inclusion Secretariat Foundation, Civil Society Monitoring Report, 2013 Amnesty International...

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Write to Federal Minister of Immigration Chris Alexander: – Inform him that you support the  application of Renata and Tibor Buzas and their three children, Tibor, Mercedesz and Lili, for permanent residence on humanitarian grounds; – Point out that the family made the application in December 2013 and is still waiting for an answer; – Remind him that by law he has the obligation to respond to this kind of application made inside Canada; -Point out that the case is going to the courts and the family is under threat of deportation only because he has not yet responded...

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