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ITALY: Amnesty International report argues that the "nomads plan" for Roma and Sinti people is the wrong answer

01 March 2010

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Amnesty International report argues that the "nomads plan" is the wrong answer: In January 2010, the Italian section of Amnesty International published a report entitled "The wrong answer", in which it argues that the "nomads plan" whose implementation is underway in Rome (as well as Milan and Naples) since May 2008 violates Roma and Sinti people's right to housing. It has opened the way to mass evictions of thousands of Roma from makeshift settlements, supposedly to move them into purpose-built camps with improved facilities on the city's outskirts, rather than permanent accommodation. The report highlights that the plan violates a number of international conventions and that the "nomad emergency" is based on a double fallacy: the term "nomad" means that the solutions offered will be for "nomads", and hence temporary or makeshift, and the term "emergency" conceals the discriminatory nature of the measures and allows authorities not to comply with a number of legal provisions by derogating them. The stories of three families are documented in the report. Amnesty International, La Risposta Sbagliata. Italia: Il "Piano Nomadi" viola il diritto all'alloggio dei Rom a Roma", January 2001 (pdf, in Italian, link).

Previous Statewatch coverage: Italy: Open-ended emergencies: deployment of soldiers in cities and summary treatment for Roma, November 2009, Italy: Institutionalising discrimination, Statewatch bulletin, vol. 18 no. 2, April- May 2008.

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