A Voice For the Voiceless
MISSION
The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice
FROM THE PHOTO LIBRARy
www.flickr.com
This is a Flickr badge showing photos in a set called Best of AP. Make your own badge here.
TAKE ACTION FOR ADVOCACY
- Search
Take Action
> Campaigns
> Support Minority ...
Most of the Travellers were born in Britain and own the land. But since 2000 they have been denied planning permission by the local Basildon Council because Dale Farm lies in the Green Belt, a strip of land around London that is protected from development. If they lose in the High Court, the Travellers could well be out on the roadside.
AP is working together with the Dale Farm Housing Association to halt the evictions of these families until all of Britian's 350,000 Gypsies, Travellers, and Roma have a legal place to live.
The Dale Farm Housing Association is working to obtain planning permits for the 52 yards (home of 86 families) at the community of Travellers that at present remain unauthorized. At the same time, the organization is endeavoring to establish an alternative mobile-home park for families who may be evicted. For this purpose, the Dale Farm Housing Association has submitted a planning application to develop such a park at Terminus Road, Pitsea, on land owned by English Partnership (a government agency) in accordance with a proposal first mooted by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.
AP's Executive Director Iain Guest interviewed Travellers (below) during a protest outside the High Court in London.
The Dale Farm Housing Association has lead several protests in order to bring attention to its cause. Additionaly, it has lobbied and used legal action to protect the families of Dale Farm.
For more information
Support Minority Rights in the UK
The largest Traveller community in England faces imminent eviction. Help stop the bulldozers!
.jpg "Photo Credit: Zach Scott")
In Basildon, England there are 90 families that face eviction under the Basildon District Council. £3 million of public money will be used to drive 157 "unauthorized" Traveller families from the district and bulldoze up to 100 of their homes at Dale Farm and Hovefields. This action has been called tantamount to ethnic-cleansing and a violation of human rights law.
| Get Involved! |
AP is working together with the Dale Farm Housing Association to halt the evictions of these families until all of Britian's 350,000 Gypsies, Travellers, and Roma have a legal place to live.
| "They put the handcuffs on so tight my hands was blue and they were all laughing at me." – Dale Farm resident, speaking on a previous eviction |
AP's Executive Director Iain Guest interviewed Travellers (below) during a protest outside the High Court in London.
The Dale Farm Housing Association has lead several protests in order to bring attention to its cause. Additionaly, it has lobbied and used legal action to protect the families of Dale Farm.
For more information
- Read more about the Dale Farm Housing Association.
- Read Peace Fellows blogs about their experiences volunteering with the Dale Farm Housing Association.
- Read AP's news bulletins on the situation at Dale Farm.
- Visit the Dale Farm interactive wiki.
.jpg)
