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Catrinel Marlon, model and actress, was awarded the special Rai Cinema prize for directing the short film "Ossa/Bones", made together with Daniele Testi and presented in the world premiere in the parallel section "Alice nella città a Festa…

Charlie Ottley, the director of the documentary series Wild Carpathia and Flavors of Romania, recovered his equipment that was stolen from him the other day in Timișoara, including the drone, which was found in Bacău. The suspects are three…

"It is not vaccines that kill people, but COVID-19 disease killed 56,000 Romanians", as 90% of the dead were unvaccinated, the coordinator of the vaccination campaign, Valeriu Gheorghiță, told a debate with the Roma community on the…

The World Bank welcomes 18 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) across Romania to form the second cohort of the Roma Sounding Board (RSB), a network of competitively selected CSOs with expertise in Roma social and economic inclusion. Tasked…

Nicu Ion, a math teacher from Romania, established in Newcastle, UK, has been elected local councilman on behalf of the Labour Party at the local elections  held last week. The man is Roma and wanted to fight all prejudice and help the…

The World Bank Office in Romania launched a call for interested civil society organizations (CSOs) across Romania to apply to the second edition of the Roma Sounding Board (RSB). All CSOs committed to strengthening the social inclusion of…

Switzerland was sentenced to the ECHR to pay moral damages to a woman from Romania, for giving her a too high fine for begging on a public road in Geneva. The beggar, born in Romania in 1992, is a Roma. "ECHR considers that the sanction…

Nine people have been detained following the conflict in Rahova district in Bucharest on Sunday, on a street largely resided by a Roma community, who defied the social distancing and lockdown measures and had a party outside on the first…

The National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD) has called mayor of Targu Mures for hearings after he had made a controversial statement on Monday, namely that the state should conduct a social survey on every pair that wants to…

Some Romanian and Bulgarian Roma communities from Paris have been recently the target of unprovoked vigilante attacks over hysteria fake accusations about kidnapping children for prostitution rings or for organ trafficking. Some 20…