[ Ссылка ] - From 2004 until 2009, Viktória Mohácsi was a member of the European Parliament— one of only two Euro-parliamentarians of Roma origin in a region with as many as 12 million Roma people. Mohácsi lost her seat against a backdrop of rising xenophobia, anti-Roma rhetoric, and antisemitism.
Mohácsi founded Desegregation, an organization in Hungary that monitors and records hate crimes against Roma and presses for stronger government responses to the rising tide of violence there. Mohácsi advocates respect for the human rights of Roma people throughout Europe and, despite death threats against her and her family, has devoted herself to ending the extreme violence, widespread discrimination, hate-filled popular rhetoric, and massive unemployment facing this increasingly vulnerable and marginalized European population.
