Romani people

Discrimination against Serbs and Roma continues in Croatia, according to the annual report of the Amnesty International NGO.

According to the report, Croatia last year dealt with the problem of a large number of refugees and migrants, while authorities are criticized for not paying enough attention to vulnerable persons.

Albania's National Inspectorate for the Protection of the Territory, IKMT, has been condemned for demolishing seven homes belonging to the Roma community with police assistance in the suburb of Selita, clearing the way for Tirana's new ring road.

The Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks has three Balkan governments for evicting Roma families from camps while not offering them any alternative accommodation.

Ali Daylam, a renowned name in working to better the lives of Roma people in Turkey, talked to Hürriyet Daily News before the International Roma Symposium to be held in Ankara on Oct. 22?The problems facing the Roma people in Turkey could be clustered under four headlines: Housing, employment, health and education.

Slovakia  will recourse to the European Court of Justice against the decision by the European Commission to enforce a mandatory refugee relocation scheme to other EU member-states of the 120,000 migrants currently in Greece and Italy. The government of Slovakia announced it would take the matter to the European Court, Tuesday.

The residents of a Roma neighborhood in the Bulgarian village of Garmen are taking to the streets on Friday over the municipality's plans to go on bulldozing their homes.

Local authorities consider their protest to be illegal, with mayor Mina Kapitanova banning rallies in the central area of Garmen on Friday.

Demolition of the illegal Roma buildings in the Bulgarian village of Garmen continued on Tuesday.

Four buildings were demolished on Monday, while two more were targeted for demolition on Tuesday.

Tensions in the Bulgarian village of Garmen were renewed as four illegal buildings were demolished on Monday.

More than fifty police and gendarmerie officers guarded the officials tasked with the demolition of the illegal buildings, Darik radio informs.

Slovakia has announced it will only accept Syrian refugees who are Christians, when a new EU migrant relocation scheme is implemented, BBC reported.

According to the British broadcaster, "the country is due to receive 200 people from camps in Turkey, Italy and Greece under the EU plan to resettle 40,000 new arrivals."

Beachgoers relaxed by the beach enjoying the sun and sea when suddenly a rain of chairs and sun lounges began to fall out of nowhere as members of the romani minority got involved in a brawl.