On October 19 2022, The Department of Natural Minorities under Lithuanian Republic Government organized a visit to the municipality of Panevėžys. During various meetings, issues of Roma education, employment and youth empowerment were discussed. Information about Roma community members’ attendance to various educational institutions in Panevėžys and registration at the Employment Service was collected. According […]

The Swedish IHRA Presidency is organizing an international conference in Stockholm on 20-21 October 2022. One objective of the conference is to take stock of existing research on the genocide of the Roma, and to identify obstacles, gaps, and needs, as well as share IHRA knowledge and recommendations, stimulate cooperation, and proactively work together for […]

On 14th of October 2022, the online course “Roma(ni) past – Europe’s future. Why embracing EU’s largest ethnic minorities matters”. This online course will provide a brief overview of Roma history and culture. The course will explore the difficult, sensitive or contentious issues related to Roma and antigypsyism, and help identify and incorporate human rights […]

Mediators work in the project “Lithuanian Roma Platform – going local” since 2016. They are helping Roma community members to solve the issues with governmental and municipality institutions. After the new project year has begun, four mediators started their work as well. We have our representatives in Vilnius, Jonava, Marijampolė and Kybartai cities. Intercultural mediation […]

Rugsėjo 13 d. Nacionalinėje Martyno Mažvydo bibliotekoje vyks tarptautinė konferencija „Re-working the trauma: research on roma and jews in the Baltics and USA“, kurią organizuoja Romų visuomenės centras, daugiakultūris jaunimo centras „Padėk pritapti“ ir Lietuvos žydų bendruomenė. On the 13th of September The International conference “Re-working the trauma: research on Roma and Jews in the […]

On the 3th of August, 2022 in the “MO” museum took place a premiere of the play “I am Karolis, Samudaripen” with the actor Marius Jampolskis, the winner of the 3 awards of “silver cane” and a “golden cross” in the main role. It is the story about a child who really wanted to survive […]

On July 21, a meeting with Vilnius district municipality occurred. During the meeting, the problems of Roma community members who lives in Vilnius district municipality, was discussed. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Vilnius District Municipality, representatives of the department of National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, representatives of […]

A meeting of the representatives of the Department of National Minorities and municipality of Troškūnai town took place on the 20 of July, 2022. During the meeting the situation of the Roma community that lives in Troškūnai and the problems they are facing  were discussed, as well as the measures by which the Department of […]

The study visit to Poland took place from 30th of May to 3th of June, 2022. During the study trip, The Auschwitz – Birkenau concentration camp was visited. About 20,000 Roma people were murdered there during the WWII, so this place is an important part of Roma History. Also during the visit, two meetings took […]

The latest photographs from the BAXT project, which has been documenting the life of Lithuanian Roma community for 20 years, made by the artist Andrew Miksys are presented in this exhibition for the first time. Andrew Miksys met all the people in the portraits in two decades of traveling all over Lithuania – from Vilnius […]