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Rights/Anti-Discrimination

Advisory Service For Squatters	http://www.squat.freeserve.co.uk/ http://www.squat.freeserve.co.uk/traveller.html	collective of workers who have been running a daily advice service for squatters and homeless people since 1975.
Traveller Law Reform Coalition (England And Wales)	http://www.travellerslaw.org.uk/	Alliance of Romany Gypsy, Irish Traveller and New Traveller campaign groups committed to raising the social inclusion of these and other Traveller communities.
Traveller Law Research Unit	http://www.cf.ac.uk/claws/tlru/	Cardiff Law School
Community Law Partnership	http://www.justask.org.uk	England and Wales (Traveller Helpline)
Yourrights.org.uk - Travellers	http://www.yourrights.org.uk/your-rights/chapters/ the-rights-of-travellers/who-is-a-gypsy-or-traveller/index.shtml
One Scotland; Many Cultures	http://www.onescotland.com	Part of a campaign organised by the Scottish Executive to tackle and eliminate racism in our country.
Minority Rights Group (MRG) International	http://www.minorityrights.org	Working to secure the rights of minorities and indiginous peoples.
Anti Bullying Network	www.antibullying.net	The Scottish Executive has established the Network so that teachers, parents and young people can share ideas about how bullying should be tackled.

Government/Policy Bodies

Commision for Racial Equality - Strategy for Gypsies and Travellers	http://www.cre.gov.uk/publs/connections/ conn_04sp_g&t.html
DfES - Aiming High: Raising the Achievement of Gypsy Traveller Pupils	http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/ ethnicminorities/links_and_publications/763027/	The Guide, published in July 2003, offers advice and guidance to schools and LEAs on how to raise the attainment and achievement of Gypsy/Traveller pupils. It includes practical guidance and examples that are shown to work to raise their achievement and ensure their inclusion in school life and answers some frequently asked questions.
Sunday Herald Article: Gypsies slam middle-class race watchdog	http://www.sundayherald.com/36702	Travellers say commission for racial equality is white and racist By Alan Crawford

Academic

Elphinstone Institute

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/

initiative on the part of the University of Aberdeen to introduce the study of human traditions into its research portfolio, especially the traditions of the North and North-East Scotland.

TravEd

http://www.traved.org.uk/

a website to support the education of Travellers

The Education Of Romanies And Other Travellers In England And Wales

http://errc.org/rr_sum1998/notebook_4.shtml

article, Roma Rights, Summer 1998

Research Group - Cambridgeshire Travellers Review

http://www.camcnty.gov.uk/sub/resrchgp/travel/gc.htm

The East Anglian Gypsy Council

The Roma - A Nation Without A Country?

http://www.herts.ac.uk/UHPress/Gypsies.html
http://www.herts.ac.uk/UHPress/education.html

University of Hertfordshire Press - university press committed to developing a major publishing programme on social, cultural and political aspects of the Roma.

Romani Studies At The University Of Greenwich

http://www.gre.ac.uk/%7Eat02/

The Schooling of Romani Americans: An Overview

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5121/schooling.htm

By Ian Hancock; Keynote Paper read before the Second International Conference on the Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Problems of Roma Children's Education in Europe, Varna, Bulgaria, May 27-29 1999

Gypsy Traveller Pupils in English Secondary Schools: a Longitudinal Study

http://www.nfer.ac.uk/research/conference_list.asp

Gypsy Collections at Liverpool University

http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/gypsy/intro.htm

Leeds University Library: The Brotherton Collection

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/brocoll.htm