OP-ED
International Renaissance Foundation: Discrimination on grounds of ethnic origin is unacceptable
The International Renaissance Foundation deplores the violation of human rights on the grounds of ethnicity of Ukrainian citizens of the Roma origin who suffered pogroms and forced eviction in the village of Loshchynivka, Odessa region. The outbreak of violence in Loshchynivka was accompanied with an illegal decision of the village council and inadequate reaction by the regional authorities and the law enforcement bodies to the mob law used by some village residents against the others. Today the Roma families that have nothing to do with the crime, and their young children, are forced to seek shelter and livelihood elsewhere.