Under new planning rules, Travellers and Gypsies must be able to prove they are actually traveling to qualify for limited planning benefits to create new sites. But for many, it's impossible to do that. Not only to remain in employment, or education - but precisely because there are so few sites, that they are unable to travel.
… Travellers' and Gypsies' ethnic Catch 22 must … 2015 Comment Society Human Rights UK Politics travellers-site-recut.jpg Under new planning rules, Travellers and Gypsies must be able to prove …
Or Myanmar, depending on which side of the military regime you find yourself. If like the companies below you support the regime, enjoy your visit to Myanmar. If not, please boycott Burma.
… If not, please boycott Burma. We’re free to travel there, but in Burma, no one is free. While our travel press may be freed to avoid publishing … / Odyssey Guides Alexander Rose Andrew Brock Travel Aon Corporation Audley Travel Austrian …
The Nazi Holocaust of the Jews is rightly remembered and commemorated, writes John Lennon. But the 'porramjos', the Nazi murder of as many as half a million Romani people, is largely forgotten. Worse, echoes of the Nazi past can be heard again in the rhetoric of modern-day fascists.
… fascists. Gypsies, tinkers, pikeys, travellers - everyone knows the terms, not to … that they were prejudiced against gypsies, travellers and Eastern European Romani. This … the UK between 75,000 and 300,000 gypsies and travellers are functionally illiterate . The …
Why so few Russian representatives at the UN's World Conference on Indigenous Peoples? Officials prevented activists - some opposing Arctic oil development - from leaving the country, damaging passports and detaining them so they missed their planes.
… activists for indigenous peoples' rights from traveling to a United Nations event." … Officials held Naikanchina, who was traveling with her infant, for three hours in … Support of Indigenous Peoples of Crimea, was traveling from Crimea to the Kiev airport when …
Since defeating the government in 1984 over its compulsory warble fly erradication scheme, Mark Purdey has been travelling the world to find the real cause of BSE and vCJD. His conclusions are controversial, fascinating, and if proved right, will cost the government millions in compensation.
… fly erradication scheme, Mark Purdey has been travelling the world to find the real cause of … to identify the real causes of BSE I recently travelled to Groote Eylandt, a remote island …
The UK Government's policy is to frack at all costs, against public opinion and compelling evidence of environmental damage and poor returns, writes Paul Mobbs - a timely reminder that as far as the Government is concerned, it has a God-given right to rule over us, no matter what we think or want.
… the café at St. Mary's Church, Putney . When travelling to London there are a few … on the edge of central London. On my recent travels through London I've been trying to get …
Grandmother Earth - Thirteen matriarchs from indigenous cultures are currently touring the world, promoting peace, unity and a respect for nature. nicola Graydon meets one of them, Mona Polacca
… Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, currently travelling the world to hold council, pray for … role, according to Mona, is prayer. ‘When we travel to places we go and plant our prayers. …
Decades violent expulsions, race laws and denial of citizenship lie at the root of the 'boat people' crisis in Thailand and Malaysia, writes Oliver Tickell. Attacks on the Rohingya minority have escalated since a new policy was announced in 2014 to permanently deny their rights.
… extorted for money before being permitted to travel to Malaysia." The exodus has grown to … for Refugees estimated that 25,000 people travelled on boats from Burma and Bangladesh …
Community leaders from Colombia, the Philippines and Uganda have been in London challenging attendees of the Mines and Money Conference. HANNIBAL RHOADES, TATIANA GARAVITO and SEBASTIAN ORDONEZ report.
… in the Philippines, Colombia and Uganda travelled to London to expose the true costs …
In law, the Shuar Arutam People of Ecuador's Amazon control their ancestral forests. But the government has allocated more than 38% of their territory to large-scale mining, and a gigantic hydroelectric dam is about to be built. Peaceful resistance has been met with a violent military occupation against a People whose only demand, set out in this Open Letter, is peace and justice.
… blood. The paths and trails that we used to travel in peace have now become unsafe and …
Indonesia's murderous campaign of military repression in its stolen territory of West Papua continues, writes Jason MacLeod. But a courageous 50-year struggle for human rights and freedom is finally bearing fruit, with growing recognition of West Papua's right to nationhood among its Pacific neighbours. Real hopes of a better future are rising above the blood and pain.
… Liberation Movement for West Papua, or ULMWP, traveled the length and breadth of West Papua … pro-independence fighters now induced to travel the world as enthusiastic ambassadors … of solidarity builds Meanwhile, Mote kept traveling while Wenda and the other three …
Indigenous Australians are systematically deprived of the benefits of mining and other developments, writes Seán Kerins, and being left to suffer their environmental impacts. As Abbott's government prepares a bonfire of 'red tape', it's time to put Indigenous interests first, and place their communities at the centre of decision making.
… opportunities. Video: Aboriginal leaders travel to Darwin to protest the McArthur zinc …
Israeli military forces have resumed their harassment of Palestinian pastoralists in the occupied Jordan Valley, part of the West Bank, holding live-fire tank and infantry maneuvers on pastures and cropland close to local communities, accompanied by the forced expulsion of both people and livestock.
… were forced to leave their homes and to travel on foot or by tractor to distant …
India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations, writes Pushpa Achanta. But tribal communities are rising up to resist the takeover, which is not only morally reprehensible but violates India's own laws and international human rights obligations.
… Movement and other resistance groups - who traveled to Lucknow in July 2015 for a rally … leaders, is among the few people who have traveled within and outside Odisha to advocate …
Forest-dwellers in Buriram province involved in a land dispute with the Thai government have been forcibly evicted, intimidated, arrested, held without charge, and dumped on a site unfit for human habitation with no water supply.
… "I was stopped at a military checkpoint while traveling to Seang Sawan village. Soldiers …
Botswanan police are refusing to allow Kalahari Bushmen to return to their ancestral homelands, despite their having won a landmark high court case allowing them to do so, writes Clive Dennis
… unable to read, and who have no means to travel to the offices where they are issued, …
Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. Now he is taking Unocal, one of the US companies that trades with the murderous regime, to court. One of the most wanted men in Burma, talks to The Ecologist.
… he made his way from village to village, travelling mainly by night, only stopping for …
After restoring democracy to the Maldives in 2008 President Nasheed became a world leader on climate change. But four years later the old regime deposed him in a coup, and now he has been imprisoned for 13 years on bogus 'terrorism' charges. Now we must stand with Nasheed - by starving the island state of its tourism revenues.
… in power. These sanctions should include travel bans and foreign asset freezes. The …
On World Day of Indigenous Resistance, Wayúu woman ANGELICA ORITZ shares her experience as a human rights defender, living and fighting for the future of her community in the shadow of the largest opencast mine in Colombia
… of life, land and water. That is why I am travelling to London. For us, indigenous …
Julian Assange's struggle for freedom is one of law and justice against vengeful state power determined at all costs to darken the light of truth that Wikileaks has cast into the murkiest of places, writes John Pilger. Now, after a long series of moral and legal victories, his release may finally be drawing near.
… procedure routine that required her to travel to London to question Assange and so …
Extreme energy in the UK is arousing extreme reactions, write Jess Elliot & Damien Short. On the one side stand citizens committed to preserving the quality of the local and global environment. And against them, a government determined to let fracking rip, and police forces prepared to ignore legal norms to suppress the growing popular resistance.
… Police. At Barton Moss, delivery lorries travelled down Barton Moss Lane to reach the …