By Grattan Puxon
Ninety years after an historic Moscow convention held by the All-Russian Romani Union of the early Soviet era, and marking the 45th jubilee of that London event which gave birth to the post-war civil rights struggle, the congress opening in Skopje shortly promises something no previous gathering of its kind has had on its agenda. The introduction of representative democracy.

Soraya Post, presently the only Romani MEP in the European Parliament, says Roma people face the same rising anti-Gypsy fascism as back in the 1930s.

by Nove Colonne—Il Foglio- Sao Paulo, 1st November, 2012

Italian poet and human rights defender Roberto Malini has been awarded the first edition of the Petreca-Dini International Poetry Prize by the Petreca-Dini family's Literary and Humanitarian Circle.

By Grattan Puxon
The editor of internet news forum DeFacto, Toma Nikolaev Mladenov, who has exposed gross anti-Roma racism in Bulgaria, this week faces possible extradition from the UK. It appears prosecutors want to get him back behind bars to keep him quiet.

A UK and a Slovakian photographer have launched a collaborative project involving Roma children at Lunik IX, Slovakia— Europe's largest Roma Community.

Bulgaria is seeking the extradition of Toma Nikolaev Mladenov, former MP candidate and editor of DeFacto news agency. See report below. District Court Judge John Zani will issue his written ruling in this case on 25 October at Westminster Magistrates Court.