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An Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) and her pups in Ethiopia, Africa

Most Romani survivors never got any financial compensation for the Romani genocide (nor for the 500 years of chattel slavery Eastern European Roma had to endure in Romania).

Nowadays, 80% of European Sinti and Roma live in poverty. The EU average is 17%. (source)

Eastern European countries like Romania, Hungary or Bulgaria are the hubs of the European sex trafficking system. In those countries, Romani women are segregated in ghettos, Romani girls are segregated in schools with poor funding and of poor quality. (source; source)

Of all prostituted women in Eastern Europe, Romani women make up:

50% of Bulgaria's

a 'high' but unknown number of Slovakia's and Hungary's

50% of Romania's

And that number is increasing. (source; source)

Romani women are disproportionately harmed by the sex trade. Yet no data is available about Romani women and sex trafficking -- because no organization cares enough to look into it! We only know that Romani people are more vulnerable to human trafficking, because of economic inequalities (source). Germany and Romania, in particular, are fully responsible for this, considering neither of those countries properly (or ever) compensated Romani victims of genocide and slavery.

Here is a thread explaining how a cycle of poverty leads to prostitution among the Hungarian Romani community:

The European men who were raping Romani women in concentration camps and during slavery are exactly the same as the European men who are now raping Romani women in German brothels. When you're a Romani girl in Europe you get told you are dirty and poor by the same men who sexualize you.

And the irony is that much of the antiracist Romani movement is comprised of Romani NGOs funded and backed by the EU, the same EU that tolerates the sex trade, that tolerates German brothels, that supports 'sex work'. Most of those Romani NGOs are funded by George Soros' Open Society Fundation, the same George Soros behind the Red Umbrella project, the same George Soros funding the pimping lobby in Europe. So now you have Romani 'feminist' organizations like E-Rromnja, the biggest in Romania, that want to decriminalize prostitution.

This is how misogyny, racism, bad compensation/memory politics, and the neoliberal agenda work together to make sure Romani women keep fueling the European sex trade. Germany, and the rest of Europe, found a new, liberal way to keep oppressing us.