Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Romania: The Roma who were evicted to live by a landfill site

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Headline Title: Romania: The Roma who were evicted to live by a landfill site 17 December 2012 Two years ago the local authorities of Cluj-Napoca forcibly evicted around 300 people – mostly Roma – from Coastei Street in the centre of the Romanian city. Since then, most of them have been living close to the landfill and a chemical waste dump in an area on the outskirts known as Pata Rât, where they were moved by the municipality.Soon after their eviction, Romani people started a long struggle for justice. One of them is Ernest Creta who now lives in an improvised home in Pata Rât.“It…

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