Along with delegates of minorities from the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, France and the Netherlands Rose is also a member of the management committee of the International Movement Against Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) founded in Tokyo in 1988.
Since June 1979 to be more exact, Romani Rose has led the work for the civil rights of German Sinti and Roma before the eyes of the German as well as the international public; he has also fought for their protection from racism and discrimination and for compensation for the survivors of the Holocaust, at the same time announcing the magnitude and the historical importance of the genocide of 500,000 Sinti and Roma in National Socialist occupied Europe.
The first important steps of this civil rights work include:[2] In the following years the Central Council drew attention to its demands again and again in the form of protests, press conferences, and events, each under the management of Rose.
On Rose's invitation, 1,500 Sinti and Roma from all over Germany and personalities such as the then President of the Upper House Bernhard Vogel and the then President of the Lower House Prof. Rita Süssmuth came to the Mass; 4) The demonstration by 250 Sinti and Roma Holocaust survivors, led by Rose, at the Federal Ministry of Finance for the following through of equal payment of compensation for forced work to the ca.
The two and a half decades of non-stop engagement for the compensation of KZ victims gained fundamental significance for the embodiment of the civil rights work in the whole minority.