Following the recent racist and Islamophobic riots across the UK and Ireland, Chris McDonagh, who works as Campaigns Officer at FFT and runs Traveller-rights account Travellers Against Racism, writes about the importance of solidarity in the […]
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Following the release of new research by Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT), we have updated a series of essential briefings on the barriers and inequalities faced by Gypsies and Travellers in England. You can find our
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Today, the UN Committee for the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights published their ‘List of Issues’, to which Friends, Families and Travellers and organisations working with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities had previously submitted
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On the evening of Thursday 16th April 2020, Channel 4 chose to broadcast a show, ‘Dispatches: The Truth About Traveller Crime’. In response to the broadcast, Sarah Mann, Director of Friends, Families and Travellers said: “It is not
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CORE a coalition of race equality organisations from across the UK met on 18 February to reflect on the state of racism in Britain today, and how we as a society are responding to it. With
Every four and a half years United Nations member states have their human rights records analysed as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. It was the UK Government’s turn in 2017. We submitted a
