Comments of the Government of the UK on the Council of Europe Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Third Opinion on the UK were received on 4 January 2012.
In 2011, BEMIS published ‘Gypsy Travellers in Contemporary Scotland. The 2001 “Inquiry into Gypsy Travellers and Public Sector Policies”: Ten Years On’.
On 19 September 2011, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) issued guidelines to the Council of Europe’s 47 member countries to fight a rising tide of anti-Gypsyism and discrimination against Roma.
On 1 September 2011, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination published its response to the UK government’s 18th and 19th periodic reports.
‘A Big or Divided Society?’, the final recommendations and report of the Panel Review into the Coalition Government Policy on Gypsies and Travellers, was published in May 2011.
In 2009 the Equality and Human Rights Commission published ‘Inequalities experienced by Gypsy and Traveller communities: A review’.
