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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11296
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Day to commemorate Roma Holocaust and to fight discrimination

Brussels, 16/04/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 15 April, the European Parliament adopted a resolution in which it calls on the member states to make greater efforts to end discrimination and hate crime and speech against the Roma population.

The MEPs also call for 2 August to be recognised as Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, to commemorate the Roma genocide in World War II. On the night of 2 to 3 August 1944, 2,897 Roma, mainly women and children, were killed in the Roma camp of...

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