{{Short description|Luxembourgish Roma rights and advocacy non-governmental organization}} {{Infobox organization |name = Chachipe |logo = |type = Non-profit<br />NGO |founded = 2009 |location = Europe (registered in Luxembourg) |key_people = Karin Waringo and Murat Haliti |fields = Media attention, direct-appeal campaigns, research, lobbying |services = Roma rights |num_members = |website = http://romarights.wordpress.com/ }} '''Chachipe a. s. b. l. ''' (earlier ''Romano Them'')<ref name="Genderen2009" />{{rp|30}} is a Luxembourg based<ref name="UNVolunteers-20130414">{{cite web|url=http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/vol/opportunity/organization_view.html?id=11101|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100129234539/http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/vol/opportunity/organization_view.html?id=11101|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 January 2010|title=Organisation details|work=UN Volunteers|accessdate=14 April 2013}}</ref> Roma rights and advocacy non-governmental organisation.<ref name="Genderen2009">{{cite book|author=Wanda Troszczynska-van Genderen|title=Kosovo: Poisoned by Lead : a Health and Human Rights Crisis in Mitrovica's Roma Camps|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XdaIISi45N0C&pg=PA33|accessdate=14 April 2013|year=2009|publisher=Human Rights Watch|isbn=978-1-56432-498-6}}</ref>{{rp|33}}<ref name="Grover2010">{{cite book|author=Sonja C. Grover|title=The European Court of Human Rights As a Pathway to Impunity for International Crimes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_jt8Lyy2rCMC&pg=PA201|accessdate=14 April 2013|year=2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-642-10799-3|page=201}}</ref> It was established in 2009.<ref name="UNVolunteers-20130414" /> Karin Waringo is the president of Chachipe.<ref name="PublicServiceEurope-20110620">{{cite web|url=http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/495/visa-proposals-fuel-roma-tensions|title=Visa proposals fuel Roma tensions|last=Waringo|first=Karin|date=2011-06-20|work=Public Service Europe|accessdate=14 April 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619083546/http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/495/visa-proposals-fuel-roma-tensions|archivedate=19 June 2012}}</ref> Chachipe has demanded that Roma refugees to EU countries from the former Yugoslavia should not be denied a right to asylum based on the "safe country of origin" doctrine, as they face discrimination in their home countries.<ref name="AmnestyInternationalGruppeKonstanz-20121215">{{cite web|url=http://www.amnesty-konstanz.de/Main/20121215001|title=Veranstaltung mit frau Dr. Phil. Karin Waringo vom Romaverband Chachipe E. V., Luxembourg|date=2012-12-15|work=Amnesty International, Konstanz division|language=German|accessdate=14 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820113642/http://www.amnesty-konstanz.de/Main/20121215001|archive-date=20 August 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chachipe contributed to the preparation of ''Human rights of Roma and Travellers in Europe'' a report commissioned and published by the Commissioner of Human Rights, Council of Europe.<ref name="CouncilOfEurope-201202">{{cite web|url=http://www.coe.int/t/commissioner/source/prems/prems79611_GBR_CouvHumanRightsOfRoma_WEB.pdf|title=Human rights of Roma and Travellers in Europe|last=Hammarberg|first=Thomas|date=February 2012|publisher=Council of Europe|pages=29|accessdate=14 April 2013}}</ref>
==Etymology== Chachipe is a Roma word meaning truth, and pronounced ''tsatsipé''<ref name="Journal of the American Oriental Society">{{cite book|title=Journal of the American Oriental Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA222|accessdate=14 April 2013|year=1862|publisher=American Oriental Society.|page=222}}</ref> it is derived from Sanskrit ''sat'' meaning truth and ''chipé'' meaning tongue, literally ''true tongue''.<ref name="Borrow1841">{{cite book|author=George Henry Borrow|title=The Zincali; or, An account of the gypsies of Spain. With an original collection of their songs and poetry, and a dictionary of their language|url=https://archive.org/details/zincalioranacco04borrgoog|accessdate=14 April 2013|year=1841|publisher=John Murray|page=[https://archive.org/details/zincalioranacco04borrgoog/page/n202 29]}}</ref>
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