On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, the association “Siguran Korak” in cooperation with the Red Cross of Bijeljina marked International Roma Day – April 8.
The celebration was attended by numerous representatives of institutions and organizations from the area of Bijeljina, as well as Roma men and women from the community. At the celebration, numerous certificates of appreciation were awarded, Roma culture and tradition were presented, and all this was completed by children’s recitations.
The celebration of this event was supported through a project by the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We would like to thank from the bottom of our hearts everyone who came and graced this event with their presence, as well as everyone who helped organize this event!
International Roma Day, April 8, is a day to celebrate Roma culture and raise awareness of the problems faced by Roma. The day was officially proclaimed in 1990 in Serock, Poland, the site of the fourth World Roma Congress of the International Roma Union (IRU), in memory of the first major international meeting of Roma representatives, which was held in Chelsfield near London on 7-12. April 1971. At that congress, a decision was made about the Roma anthem, for which the song Đelem, Đelem (Roma: I went, I went) was chosen, and a decision was made about the flag, for which a blue-green bicolor with a red dot in the middle was chosen, a symbol of progress and movement, but also of the migration of Roma throughout history.
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