The signs came down almost as fast as they went up: plain white sheets of paper, plastered to a Rowland Heights gas station door, prohibiting Romani women from entering. “No Gypsy women in long ...

A female Roma, or Gypsy, band in Serbia has used music to preach women's empowerment within their community. Formed in 2014, “Pretty Loud” symbolically seeks to give a louder voice to Roma girls, ...

I grew up along Romania’s Black Sea coast. My father was the first in his family to graduate from university, and my mother went to a vocational school. Being educated was unusual in our Romani ...

Romani women living in Oldham have shared their stories in an animated film that is set to premiere next month. Short film Gelem, Gelem, has just been completed and it tells the real-life stories of ...

TIRGU BUJOR, Romania -- Tired of reading soap opera subtitles to his wife when they watched TV, Costel Pitigoi told her she should learn to read them herself. So Maria Pitigoi joined 29 other women in ...