Hindus want social justice for European Roma

Hindus stress that the “tacit apartheid” of Roma people of Europe needs to be urgently attended to.

Acclaimed Hindu and Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) Friday, said that Roma reportedly continue to suffer from human rights violations and brazen structural discrimination in Europe and everybody knows about it and admits it.

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“Paper drives” and “sweet talks” by European Union and countries of Europe in the past have apparently failed to bring them at par with rest of the population.

Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, argues that European Union jumps at every opportunity to teach morality lessons to the world but chooses to ignore its own backyard and forgets its own moral obligation to take care of its frequently maltreated Roma population, who reportedly live in apartheid like conditions.

How the European Union and countries of Europe can make tall claims of good governance in the world if their own Roma brothers/sisters reportedly continue to face deeply embedded institutional discrimination and social exclusion, Rajan Zed asks.

Roma reportedly regularly face racism, substandard education, hostility, social exclusion, joblessness, rampant illness, inadequate housing, lower life expectancy, unrest, living on desperate margins, language barriers, stereotypes, mistrust, rights violations, discrimination, marginalization, appalling living conditions, prejudice, human rights abuse, racist slogans on Internet, unusually high unemployment rates, etc.