Romnis woman with traditional gypsy dress in work place. Photo Lehtikuva.A research by Ombudsman for Minorities has said the Finnish Romanis are the most discrimination-hit community in their day-to-day lives. Slightly more than two-thirds of the Romanis have experienced discrimination in a given area of life in the past year. The survey interviewed 249 Romanis across different age groups. The Ombudsman for Minorities, Eva Biaudet at programme of publishing survey report on discrimination to miniority in Helsinki on Thursday. Photo Lehtikuva.Most cases of discrimination were reported in daily situations such as in shops or at service stations. Being constantly monitored by attendants and security guards at shops is humiliating, respondents have said. More than half of the respondents said they had experienced discrimination while searching for jobs in the past year. The officials of the ornanisation named Ombudsman for Minorities along with the Ombudsman at the programme. Photo LehtikuvaThe survey also established that Romanis experience more discrimination than the Somalis living in the country or Russian speaking people. An EU report published in 2009 showed that just under half of the immigrants of Somali background had experienced discrimination. The Russians living in Finland constituted one fourth of those who had faced faced discrimination, said the 2009 EU report.
