UNICEF Says Balkan Roma Shunned, Illiterate, Hungry
May 17, 2007
A Roma flower-seller in Belgrade (file photo) (epa)
The study shows most Roma live under the poverty line: 78 percent of Roma in Albania, and 66 percent in Romania, live on less that $4.30 a day.
Data from the region's countries put the Roma, or Gypsy, population at some 3.7 million people.
The World Bank says it is over 15 million in reality.
(Reuters)