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| Britain's High Court Lifts the Threat of Eviction from the Dale Farm Travellers |
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Dale Farm, UK, May 13, 2008: In a far-reaching decision that could galvanize efforts to combat homelessness across Europe, a British High Court judge has halted the eviction of 86 Traveller families from Dale Farm in Southeast England, and ordered the local authorities to find alternative land where the Travellers can live legally and free from discrimination. The 26-page ruling, issued May 9 by Justice Andrew Collins, amounts to a stinging rebuke to the Basildon Council, which has twice ordered the Travellers to leave Dale Farm because they are living illegally and without planning permission. James Dasinger, an Advocacy Project Peace Fellow, has been volunteering at Dale Farm this year. Watch a video of a previous Traveller eviction in the UK. Above, a protest by Travellers outside the High Court in January.
Nepal Women and Dalit Ride into Parliament on Maoist Coattails (April 24)
Kathmandu: Around 250 women and lower-caste Dalit (above) have been elected to Nepal’s new 601-seat Constituent Assembly, reversing centuries of exclusion and raising hopes for a major political push to eradicate discrimination from Nepali society.With almost all of the results of the April 10 election now confirmed, it is clear that the Maoists won a sweeping victory, just two years after abandoning a violent civil war. Women in particular were able to ride the coattails of the Maoists’ triumph. Around 200 women deputies will sit in the new Assembly, one third of the total.
AP has recruited three Peace Fellows, Jes Therkelsen, Heather Gilberds, and Shubha Bala to volunteer this summer for Dalit rights and democracy in Nepal with the Jagaran Media Center (JMC) and the Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP).
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