UK Anti-Discrimination Body Announces Crack Down on Anti-Gypsy Signs
29 July 2004
The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) in Wales announced plans to eliminate within two years signs in shops and pubs stating "No Gypsies or Travellers", according to the BBC of May 2, 2004. Such discriminatory signs have been illegal since the adoption of the 1965 Race Relations Act. Mr Chris Myant, director of the CRE in Wales, was quoted as having stated, "If you saw a sign banning black people from a shop there would be an outcry, yet signs banning travellers and Gypsies are still being used." The ERRC welcomes the move, but notes that removing explicitly racially discriminatory signs is generally only a first step towards securing equal access to public places.
(BBC)
Written Comments by the European Roma Rights Centre concerning Serbia to the Human Rights Council, within its Universal Periodic Review, for consideration at its 29th session (January-February 2018).
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Written comments by the ERRC to the European Commission on enlargement component of the EU Roma Framework.
