Rights Denied

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Rights Denied The Roma of Hungary S HUNGARY COMPLETES A FIFTH YEAR OF PAINFUL RESTRUCTURING, THE economic and social diagnosis for Roma is increasingly desperate. The most immediate and dramatic threat to Roma comes from attacks and harassment by racist hate groups. For the meantime, less visible patterns of endemic discrimination and increasing social marginalization pose an equally serious danger for Hungary's largest minority. The major social and structural upheavals in Hungárián society since the collapse of communism, coupled with increasingly open discrimination, have had a disproportionately large and negatíve impact on Roma, whose low social status, lack of access to education, and isolation make them relatively unable to defend themselves and their interests. Reforms initiated by Hungárián politicians have often been undertaken without considering their devastating impact on the country's Roma. Roma suffer nearly totál marginalization within Hungárián society: they are... Tovább

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Rights Denied The Roma of Hungary S HUNGARY COMPLETES A FIFTH YEAR OF PAINFUL RESTRUCTURING, THE economic and social diagnosis for Roma is increasingly desperate. The most immediate and dramatic threat to Roma comes from attacks and harassment by racist hate groups. For the meantime, less visible patterns of endemic discrimination and increasing social marginalization pose an equally serious danger for Hungary's largest minority. The major social and structural upheavals in Hungárián society since the collapse of communism, coupled with increasingly open discrimination, have had a disproportionately large and negatíve impact on Roma, whose low social status, lack of access to education, and isolation make them relatively unable to defend themselves and their interests. Reforms initiated by Hungárián politicians have often been undertaken without considering their devastating impact on the country's Roma. Roma suffer nearly totál marginalization within Hungárián society: they are almost entirely absent from the visible political, academic, commercial, and social life of the country. Many Roma feel that the promises of democratic political reform, so strong in 1 989, have amounted to very little for them. The initial interest that somé of the liberal, Western-oriented parties showed in minority affairs has largely been jettisoned in the face of widespread hostility from the majority Hungárián populace. Roma remain on the periphery-isolated, despised, and denied effective participation in the process that is shaping the new Hungary and the role of minorities within it. Vissza