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Inequality in the UK

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A new government survey on inequality in school and workplaces shows the implicit discrimination and issues faced by minorities. Worst off, it seems are Roma and Travellers.
Bad.

– Audit lays bare racial disparities in UK schools, courts and workplaces. In: The Guardian. 09.10.2017. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/09/audit-lays-bare-racial-disparities-in-uk-schools-courts-and-workplaces
– New race survey makes for ‘uncomfortable reading’, says campaigner. In: Sky News. 09.10.2017. http://news.sky.com/story/new-race-survey-makes-for-uncomfortable-reading-says-campaigner-11074373 [link-preview url=”https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/09/audit-lays-bare-racial-disparities-in-uk-schools-courts-and-workplaces “]

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UK: Judge Cleared

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A UK judge who, while sentencing a Traveller’s gang for slavery and human trafficking, made some very inappropriate comments in general about Travellers has been cleared.
Bad.

– Judge cleared of making inappropriate remarks in modern slavery case. In: The Guardian. 05.10.2017. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/05/judge-cleared-of-making-inappropriate-comments-in-modern-slavery-case [link-preview url=”https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/05/judge-cleared-of-making-inappropriate-comments-in-modern-slavery-case”]

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Switzerland and Travellers

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The Canton Bern is stopping the search for a suitable place to create a camping site for foreign travellers. This distinction between local and foreign travellers is really bad.

– Weichenstellung in der Roma-Politik. In: Der Bund. 05.10.2017. https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/weichenstellung-in-der-romapolitik/story/12911725 [link-preview url=”https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/weichenstellung-in-der-romapolitik/story/12911725″]

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French Chronicle …

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Not many news in France this week. In Gennevilliers, near Paris, a camp is being dismantled; in Champs sur Marne, the mayor clamours for a French-wide solution to the Roma “issue”; in the North, in Hénin-Beaumont, two camps were closed and the travellers are escorted out by the police; iN Grenoble, an association closes for lack of funds for Roma; and finally a bad stereotype – a Roma pimp arrested in Hungary for crimes (running a prostitution ring) in France.

– Quasi déserté, le bidonville rom de Gennevilliers en cours de démantèlement. In: Europe 1. 26.09.2017. http://www.europe1.fr/societe/quasi-deserte-le-bidonville-rom-de-gennevilliers-en-cours-de-demantelement-3446795
– Champs-sur-Marne réclame une prise en charge globale des Roms. In: Le Parisien. 26.09.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/champs-sur-marne-77420/champs-sur-marne-reclame-une-prise-en-charge-globale-des-roms-26-09-2017-7288587.php
– La maire de Champs-sur-Marne veut aider les nomades à trouver une vie plus stable. In: Évasion. 27.09.2017. https://www.evasionfm.com/actualite-28349-la-maire-de-champs-sur-marne-veut-aider-les-nomades-a-trouver-une-vie-plus-stable.html
– Double évacuation de camps de Roms et de Monténégrins ce mardi, près de Sainte-Henriette. In: La Voix du Nord. 26.09.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/223843/article/2017-09-26/double-evacuation-de-camps-de-roms-et-de-montenegrins-ce-mardi-pres-de-sainte
– Les nomades ont repris la route… sous surveillance de la police. In: La Voix du Nord. 27.09.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/224538/article/2017-09-27/les-nomades-ont-repris-la-route-sous-surveillance-de-la-police
– met la clé sous la porte à cause d’une baisse drastique des subventions faire sans Roms Action. In: Le Dauphiné.30.09.2017. http://www.ledauphine.com/isere-sud/2017/09/30/met-la-cle-sous-la-porte-a-cause-d-une-baisse-drastique-des-subventions-faire-sans-roms-action
– Condamné à Lille pour proxénétisme, il est arrêté en Hongrie. In: La Voix du Nord. 26.09.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/223694/article/2017-09-26/condamne-lille-pour-proxenetisme-il-est-arrete-en-hongrie [link-preview url=”https://www.evasionfm.com/actualite-28349-la-maire-de-champs-sur-marne-veut-aider-les-nomades-a-trouver-une-vie-plus-stable.html “]

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Italy: Still Waiting

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The Italian National Congress of Roma, Sinti and Travellers protested on the capitol to ask for the administration to close the Castelromano camp and for a real social inclusion plan. The locals complain of extreme conditions in terms of hygiene, with diseases spreading especially among the many children. “We ask the mayor to close immediately Castelromano. Conditions are no longer viable,” said Luigi Hamidovic, representative of the Roma community in Castelromano.

– Roma, sinti e rom in Campidoglio: “Basta campi e degrado, vogliamo casa e lavoro”. In: La Republica. 21.09.2017. https://video.repubblica.it/edizione/roma/roma-sinti-e-rom-in-campidoglio-basta-campi-e-degrado-vogliamo-casa-e-lavoro/285260/285873 [link-preview url=”https://video.repubblica.it/edizione/roma/roma-sinti-e-rom-in-campidoglio-basta-campi-e-degrado-vogliamo-casa-e-lavoro/285260/285873″]

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UK Police and Travellers

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Several UK policemen were using and posting on a Facebook page that contained racist statements against Travellers. They did not post these comments themselves but rather failed to react about them…

– Met police chat forum was used to post insults aimed at Gypsies. In: The Guardian. 21.09.2017. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/21/met-police-chat-forum-was-used-to-post-insults-aimed-at-gypsies
– ‘Breaching equality’ – Calls for London police officers who insulted Travellers online to face ‘misconduct’ punishment. In: The Irish Times. 21.09.2017. http://irishpost.co.uk/breaching-equality-call-london-police-officers-insulted-travellers-online-face-misconduct-punishment/
– Met police officers used Facebook page that contained insults about travellers. In: Yahoo News. 21.09.2017. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-police-officers-used-facebook-page-contained-insults-travellers-145416210.html [link-preview url=”https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/21/met-police-chat-forum-was-used-to-post-insults-aimed-at-gypsies “]

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Brigitta Balogh

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An interview of Brigitta Balogh, Romni, Law Student, and activist!

– Brigitta Balogh: Romani human rights campaigner and law student. In: Travellers Times. 20.09.2017. http://travellerstimes.org.uk/Blogs–Features/Brigitta-Balogh-Romani-human-rights-campaigner-.aspx [link-preview url=”http://travellerstimes.org.uk/Blogs–Features/Brigitta-Balogh-Romani-human-rights-campaigner-.aspx”]

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Switzerland and a few Travellers

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Seems that the Swiss cannot find a solution to the “problem” of travellers… Really? For around 3000 people who visit Switzerland regularly?

– «Allen Efforts zum Trotz gibts weniger Plätze». In: Der Bund. 09.09.2017. https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/allen-efforts-zum-trotz-gibts-weniger-plaetze/story/11905198 [link-preview url=”https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/allen-efforts-zum-trotz-gibts-weniger-plaetze/story/11905198″]

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It Works

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A case showing that Roma can camp in Switzerland without being tagged as dirtying and defiling the site on which they camp… This entire polemic of foreign travellers is a self made issue.

– Wo Roma friedlich campieren. In: Der Landbote. 08.09.2017. https://www.landbote.ch/front/wo-roma-friedlich-campieren/story/12509526 [link-preview url=”https://www.landbote.ch/front/wo-roma-friedlich-campieren/story/12509526″]

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Switzerland: Work and Public Order …

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Really, an ordinance in Switzerland is trying to ban travellers from working based on “disturbing public order” …
Bad!!!!

– Une ordonnance braque les gens du voyage. In: La Tribune de Genève. 06,09.2017. https://www.tdg.ch/suisse/ordonnance-braque-gens-voyage/story/18323278 [link-preview url=”https://www.tdg.ch/suisse/ordonnance-braque-gens-voyage/story/18323278″]

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Switzerland Workers and Travellers

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The associations of craftsmen in Switzerland are being sued for having advertised against using travellers for jobs in the country. When you read what they wrote, this was really discriminatory.

– Plainte pour une annonce discriminatoire. In: Tribune de Genève. 06.09.2017. https://www.tdg.ch/suisse/Plainte-pour-une-annonce-discriminatoire/story/23349204 [link-preview url=”https://www.tdg.ch/suisse/Plainte-pour-une-annonce-discriminatoire/story/23349204″]

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Not Good …

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An article and comment on Travellers in Switzerland, basically stating that the “locals” will have more difficulties in finding a site if there are no (segregated) sites for “foreign” travellers.

– «Allen Efforts zum Trotz gibts weniger Plätze» In: Der Bund. 09.09.2017. https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/Allen-Efforts-zum-Trotz-gibts-weniger-Plaetze-/story/11905198 [link-preview url=”https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/Allen-Efforts-zum-Trotz-gibts-weniger-Plaetze-/story/11905198″]

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Travellers and Workers

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A Swiss traveller is suing the workers associations for discrimination. These associations had put adverts in the press warning readers not to employ travellers to do repairs or painting jobs. The adverts were definitively not politically correct …

– Fahrender zeigt Handwerker-Verbände an. In: 20 Minuten (CH). 06.09.2017. http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/bern/story/26650728 [link-preview url=”http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/bern/story/26650728″]

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Switzerland – No Travellers Please

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The residents of the village of Wileroltigen in the Canton Bern protested in front of the Bern parliament to protest against camping sites for travellers in the canton.
Bad…

– Wileroltiger wollen Transitplätze im ganzen Kanton stoppen. In: Der Bund. 04.09.2017. https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/wileroltiger-wollen-transitplaetze-im-ganzen-kanton-stoppen/story/25138084 [link-preview url=”https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/wileroltiger-wollen-transitplaetze-im-ganzen-kanton-stoppen/story/25138084″]

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Now Who Is Dirty?

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The Swiss have a strong tendency on focusing on the dirt and especially on the excrement left over when Travellers are around or leave a camp… And now this – the very same people spread excrements and manure on the place that Roma were to be using as a camping site…
No comments …

– Excréments et purin pour faire fuir les Roms. In: 20 Minutes (CH). 29.08.2017. http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/suisse/story/Excrements-et-purin-pour-faire-fuir-les-Roms-18320846 [link-preview url=”http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/suisse/story/Excrements-et-purin-pour-faire-fuir-les-Roms-18320846″]

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French Chronicle …

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The holidays are over in France. A lot of news in the press about Roma.
First, near Paris, a new Roma camp was opened on the future site of the Paris St. Germain Football club training site, resulting in many articles; then, the camp on the former train tracks of the Petite Ceinture will again be dismantled (again); near Paris, a camp was dismantled in the Essone; and again near Paris, Roma left a mess behind after having left their camp.
In the North of France, a camp was closed and dismantled near Lille, and another one is “disturbing” the reconstruction of a church. Disturbingly, in the North, an article stating that Roms are Romanian beggars while Travellers are the locals …
Finally, in Western France an illegal camp angers residents and in Angers, Roma will be expulsed for the 24th time!

– Poissy : un camp de Roms sur le futur centre d’entraînement du Paris Saint-Germain. In: France Info FR3. 31.08.2017. http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/paris-ile-de-france/yvelines/poissy-camp-roms-futur-centre-entrainement-du-paris-saint-germain-1319577.html
– Poissy : des Roms sur les terrains du PSG. In: Le Parisien. 31.08.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/poissy-78300/poissy-des-roms-s-installent-sur-les-terrains-du-psg-31-08-2017-7225902.php
– Un groupe de Roms s’installe sur le terrain du futur centre d’entraînement du PSG. In: RT. 31.08.2017. https://francais.rt.com/france/42684-groupe-roms-sinstalle-sur-terrain-du-futur-centre-entrainement-psg
– Une centaine de Roms s’installent sur le futur centre du PSG à Poissy. In: Evasion.fm. 01.09.2017. https://www.evasionfm.com/actualite-27587-une-centaine-de-roms-s-installent-sur-le-futur-centre-du-psg-a-poissy.html?version=essonne
– Poissy : un camp de Roms sur le site du futur centre d’entraînement du PSG. In: France Bleu. 01.09.2017. https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/poissy-un-camp-de-roms-sur-le-site-du-futur-centre-d-entrainements-du-psg-1504287042
– Paris : le bidonville de la petite ceinture de nouveau expulsé ? In: Le Parisien. 29.08.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75018/paris-le-bidonville-de-la-petite-ceinture-de-nouveau-expulse-29-08-2017-7221897.php
– Le bidonville de l’hippodrome a été détruit. In: Essonne Info. 01.09.2017. https://www.essonneinfo.fr/91-essonne-info/114403/bidonville-de-lhippodrome-a-ete-detruit/
– Bondoufle : le bidonville de l’hippodrome a été évacué. In: Le Parisien. 30.08.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/bondoufle-91070/bondoufle-le-bidonville-de-l-hippodrome-a-ete-evacue-30-08-2017-7223847.php
– Isles-lès-Villenoy catastrophé après le départ de 350 Roms. In: Le Parisien. 01.09.2017. http://www.leparisien.fr/isles-les-villenoy-77450/isles-les-villenoy-catastrophe-apres-le-depart-de-350-roms-01-09-2017-7228875.php
– Isles-lès-Villenoy. Après sept mois, les 350 Roms ont déserté le camp. In: La Marne. 29.08.2017. https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/isles-les-villenoy_77232/isles-villenoy-apres-sept-mois-350-roms-ont-deserte-camp_11679002.html
– Le camp de Roms de la plaine de la Poterne démantelé. In: La Voix du Nord. 29.08.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/210168/article/2017-08-29/le-camp-de-roms-de-la-plaine-de-la-poterne-demantele
– Lille : un nouveau camp Rom démantelé plaine de la Poterne. In: France Info. FR3. 29.08.2017. http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-france/nord-0/lille/lille-nouveau-camp-rom-demantele-plaine-poterne-1318537.html
– «L’occupation de notre terrain gêne la reconstruction de notre église» In: La Voix du Nord. 30.08.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/210433/article/2017-08-30/l-occupation-de-notre-terrain-gene-la-reconstruction-de-notre-eglise
– Les riverains informés, ce jeudi, sur la nouvelle aire d’accueil des gens du voyage. In: La Voix du Nord. 30.08.2017. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/210819/article/2017-08-30/les-riverains-informes-ce-jeudi-sur-la-nouvelle-aire-d-accueil-des-gens-du
– Bouguenais. Le campement sauvage met les riverains en colère. In: Ouest France. 31.08.2017. http://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/bouguenais-44340/le-campement-sauvage-met-les-riverains-en-colere-5215320
– A Angers, des Roms sont menacés d’une vingt-quatrième expulsion. In: Mediapart. 31.08.2017. https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/310817/angers-des-roms-sont-menaces-d-une-vingt-quatrieme-expulsion?onglet=full [link-preview url=”https://francais.rt.com/france/42684-groupe-roms-sinstalle-sur-terrain-du-futur-centre-entrainement-psg “]

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Tory MP and Roma

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A new Tory MP for Moray, UK, is severely biased against travellers are Roma. He apologised for saying that dealing with travellers “would be a number one priority as prime minister” but continued to state that [roadside encampments] are a “blight on our community” and current laws and protections make it difficult to get “get rid of them”.
One can only wonder what he meant by “getting rid of them” …

– If not here, then where? On Douglas Ross’ war against the Gypsy/Traveller community in Moray. In: Open Democracy UK. 28.08.2017. https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/lynne-tammi/if-not-here-then-where-on-douglas-ross-ethnic-war-against-gypsytraveller-community-i [link-preview url=”https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/lynne-tammi/if-not-here-then-where-on-douglas-ross-ethnic-war-against-gypsytraveller-community-i”]

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Pilgrimage in Lourdes

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The annual pilgrimage of the French travellers (Manouches et Gitans) in Lourdes closed yesterday., It is held from the 19th to the 24th of August.

– Le pèlerinage des gens du voyage à Lourdes. In: Aleteia. 24.08.2017. https://fr.aleteia.org/2017/08/24/le-pelerinage-des-gens-du-voyage-a-lourdes/ [link-preview url=”https://fr.aleteia.org/2017/08/24/le-pelerinage-des-gens-du-voyage-a-lourdes/”]

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Travellers and Switzerland

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This time, in Eastern Switzerland … They rented a piece of land from a Farmer and will stay for around 30 days.
– Fahrende sind wieder da. In: Tagblatt. 21.08.2017. http://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/fahrende-sind-wieder-da;art509043,5063338 [link-preview url=”http://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/fahrende-sind-wieder-da;art509043,5063338″]

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