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No place like home
Society Guardian May 17 2006
A new report spells out the need for local councils to provide adequate sites for Gypsies and Travellers. Now let's hope they listen, says Sarah Spencer
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Are we really too scared these days to allow Gypsies and travellers to be part of our ordered, static society?
Guardian May 17 2006
Gypsies and travellers have a good case for being considered the most discriminated against and most rejected people in Britain writes Marcel Berlins.
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Councils 'ignore Gypsy tensions'
BBC News community affairs
More than 100 councils are doing nothing to end tensions between Gypsies and other members of the public, Britain's race watchdog has said. Dominic Casciani reports.
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"Europeans must learn more about Roma"
Statement by Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, on the occasion of the International Roma Day, April 8, 2006.
On the eve of the International Roma Day, we should remember the long history of discrimination and persecution of the Roma, including the porrajmos (Holocaust).
The siege of Dale Farm
Gypsies at Britain's largest encampment may soon be evicted
Dale Farm, the biggest encampment of Gypsies in Britain, with about 1,000 people, is under threat. Although they have bought the plots on which their caravans sit, only about 400 of the current residents received belated permission to settle on them. The other 600, who trickled in later, did not, and are now in breach of the Town and Planning Act.
Tributes flow in for Traveller campaigner
Irish Post Wednesday, March 22 2006
TRIBUTES have been paid to justice campaigner Patrick Delaney, who died last week of liver failure three years after the brutal killing of his 15-year-old son.
The Derby-born Irish labourer mounted a tireless campaign for the rights of Travellers in Britain following his teenage son Johnny Delaney’s death in 2003 reports Jon Myles.
Roma Nation Day on the 8th April 2006
Last year, Roma Nation Day was celebrated in some 44 countries around the world, with hundreds of thousands participating. The celebration has been growing every year since it was started in 1971, by the First World Romani Congress. Indeed, Roma Nation has become as much of a "national" institution, as the Congress itself.
The Death of Johnny Delaney
In May 2003 an Irish Traveller teenager, Johnny Delaney, was tragically killed in Ellesmere Port.
You can read more on this website here, or read the BBC's reporting of this horrendous incident at here.
We would like to thank Johnny’s family for giving us permission to place this story on our web site in the hope that it will stop another family from going through the pain and suffering they have since this terrible murder.
UK 'discriminated against Roma'
The government's immigration rules discriminated on racial grounds against Roma (Gypsies) seeking entry into the UK, the Law Lords have ruled
For more detail view the BBC link
Gypsies win EU seat
ONE of Europe's largest minorities, the Gypsies, will have a member in the European Parliament after Hungarians elected former radio announcer turned anthropologist Livia Jaroka.
Firle Burning
A bonfire society which caused controversy after an effigy of a Gypsy family was burnt at Firle, East Sussex, is seeking help in paying legal costs.
Twelve members were accused of inciting racial hatred after the event in 2003.
Divided we fall
The Guardian July 22, 2004
The Roma face more discrimination than any other ethnic group in Europe. Now Romany women are uniting to confront the sexism within their own community as well as the bigotry from without. By Tania Branigan
An article on Romany women featuring Janie Codona and Sylvie Dunn can be accessed here
A Historical Moment
A ceremony to mark the signature of the partnership agreement between the Council of Europe and the European Roma and Travellers Forum and an information meeting of the Roma and the Founding Members of ERTF was held in Strasbourg 15 -16 December. Download this historic document below.
History
Persecuted
Racism and prejudice has never been too far from Traveller and Gypsy people and you can read about the history of persecution in our History Section.