Abgeschobenen Roma, Ashkali und Ägyptern drohen im Kosovo Ausgrenzung, Elend und Obdachlosigkeit. Das belegen zahlreiche Berichte. Dennoch sollen morgen erneut mehrere Roma mit einem Abschiebeflug von Stuttgart aus nach Pristina abgeschoben werden. PRO ASYL protestiert aufs Schärfste gegen die geplante Sammelabschiebung und fordert dazu auf, Abschiebungen in den Kosovo zu beenden.

Twenty seven Roma families in Serbia's capital Belgrade, among them refugees from Kosovo, face imminent forced eviction from their homes to make way for new commercial housing built by a government owned company, Amnesty International said.

Der neue Generalsekretär von Amnesty International, Salil Shetty, hat Deutschland aufgefordert, die Abschiebung von Roma in den Kosovo zu stoppen. Wenn die Flüchtlinge jetzt zur Rückkehr gezwungen würden, „wird ihr Leben in Gefahr gebracht“, sagte Shetty der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung.

Roma children who were deported from Germany and other European countries are now living with their families in extreme poverty on the margins of society and their basic rights are still denied. This is the result of a new UNICEF report.

(Chachipe) Against the background of the flaring tensions in Northern Kosovo, the Ministry of Interior of the Land Baden-Württemberg, Rheinhold Gall, has decided to stall the forced repatriation of Roma to Serbia and Kosovo. According to the German news agency DPA, a Ministry spokesman explained, that the Minister considers that the security situation of Roma is particularly unsafe. A delegation of the Parliament of the German Land in charge of dealing with appeals will visit Kosovo in Autumn to make a final assessment of the situation.

In 1999, more than 100,000 Roma fled Kosovo and sought refuge in other countries. The needs of these people are not reflected in programs conducted under the Decade, concludes this report by Mensur Haliti.

While there has been progress in some areas, Kosovo institutions still are not creating adequate conditions for integration of the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities, is a conclusion of report presented today by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.

Despite massive protests and concerns a collective deportation to Kosovo took place today. Among the deportees were many Roma, who had been tolerated for years here in Germany.

The Serbian authorities must halt a series of forced evictions of Roma in the capital Belgrade and to provide them with adequate housing, Amnesty International said on the eve of International Roma Day. Within these communities, there are many vulnerable groups, including Roma who fled the 1999 war in Kosovo.

With a little goodwill from both sides the plight of Roma families, who were displaced from Mitrovica in the war and abandoned in lead-contaminated camps, could finally be solved, says Amanda McRae, Western Balkans researcher at Human Rights Watch.