Clinton prescient with International Roma Day remarks
Last Thursday, Clinton took the time to make a statement for International Roma Day that included: Most importantly, International Roma Day is an opportunity to call attention to the challenges that continue to face Europe’s ten million Roma. Protecting and promoting the human rights of Roma everywhere has long been a personal commitment for me, ...
Last Thursday, Clinton took the time to make a statement for International Roma Day that included:
Last Thursday, Clinton took the time to make a statement for International Roma Day that included:
Most importantly, International Roma Day is an opportunity to call attention to the challenges that continue to face Europe’s ten million Roma. Protecting and promoting the human rights of Roma everywhere has long been a personal commitment for me, and under the Obama Administration it is a priority of the United States.
Her comments were prescient indeed. Preliminary results from this weekend’s election in Hungary are showing that a far-right, anti-Roma party, Movement for a Better Hungary, or Jobbik, came in third with 16.7 percent of the vote (more than three times any other far-right party since Romania’s return to democracy in 1990) and will enter parliament. And philanthropist George Soros said last week that Roma are being scapegoated for Europe’s economic crisis. Thank goodness Clinton is standing up for the rights of Roma.
(In the photo above, a Romanian Roma family casts their ballots in the village of Sintesti on Dec. 6, 2009.)
Preeti Aroon was copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009-2016 and was an assistant editor from 2007-2009. Twitter: @pjaroonFP
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