European Roma bid to join UN Holocaust memorial
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Europe's Roma minority appealed to the United Nations on Wednesday to be included in annual Holocaust commemorations as recognized victims of Nazi Germany who still suffer discrimination across the continent.
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Preparations for the Day of Memory of the Jewish People's Genocide have begun in Lithuania.
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Health ministers, AIDS experts, industry and civil society representatives from across the EU and its eastern neighbours are meeting today in Vilnius to pledge action to counter a growing HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Those who incite hatred and mass murder are not always extremists but men of culture, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told world leaders in opening the first-ever General Assembly commemoration of the World War II Holocaust.
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Romania marks the Holocaust for the first time after recognising that thousands of Jews died on its territory.
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Germany is struggling to contain an embarrassing and potentially explosive debate on the Holocaust, just as it prepares to join other nations in commemorating the victims of Nazi aggression at Auschwitz.
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Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis, a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the last transports from the Lodz ghetto to Hitler's death camps.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 18 (IPS) - European Union officials were this week branded  "slow" and "lazy" in addressing discrimination  faced by the Roma community, the continent's largest  transnational minority.
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A 1,600-strong audience is expected to attend the national commemoration service in Liverpool to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will visit the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of its liberation during World War II.
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PRAGUE, Dec 16 (IPS) - Roma rights groups have hailed a ruling by British  law lords that British immigration  controls at Prague airport  breached international laws against racial discrimination.
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An association of Auschwitz deportees and an anti-racist organization sought a symbolic one euro in damages in a Paris Court of Appeal from the former boss of Internet site Yahoo over sale of Nazi memorabilia on the Internet.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Eight Eastern European states launched a 10-year initiative yesterday to help millions of Roma Gypsies escape discrimination, segregation, and poverty that has pushed them to the margins of mainstream society.
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Con manifestazione nazionale a Roma di fronte al Senato
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Those who incite hatred and mass  murder are not always extremists but men of culture,  Secretary-General Kofi Annan told world leaders in opening the  first-ever General Assembly commemoration of the World War II  Holocaust.
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The leaders of Italy, France and Spain sent a letter to the European Union on Monday, urging the bloc to approve measures to help them cope with the flood of illegal migrants from Africa.
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PRAGUE, Dec 16 (IPS) - Roma rights groups have hailed a ruling by British  law lords that British immigration controls at Prague airport  breached international laws against racial discrimination.