“Action Day – International Romani Day” – 8 April

Years that this action day was marked: 2014 / 2016

Description: The Action Days for International Roma Day, 8 April, gave visibility to Roma culture, a voice to young Roma and warned of the magnitude and risks of hate speech targeting Roma in Europe.

The Action Days mobilise the national campaigns and European partners of the No Hate Speech Movement in joint activities on specific forms or targets of hate speech. Each Action Day has a programme of activities prepared in co-operation with the national campaign co-ordinators, online activists and campaign partners.

Multimedia content:

• Album Hall of Famous Roma Europeans
• Album Stereotypes about Roma people

Other materials: 

• Concept note “8 April: international Roma Day”
• Blogpost: “report on statement “Gypsy gypsy, you are strangers here”
• Blogpost: “Good Online Content about and for Roma people”
• Blogpost: “8 April: Education: hard work, but nothing is impossible by Leila Lázár”
• Blogpost: “8 April: A Piece of Puzzle by Denisa Samková”
• Blogpost “8 April: Hate speech against Roma, and its assimilation into political discourse in Europe by Orsolya Szabó”
• Blogpost: “8-th of April – We can do it! Better, faster, harder…!!!”
• Blogpost “The Day We Celebrate Gypsies”
• Blog post: Tackling Hate speech aimed at Gypsies, Travellers and Roma