{"id":1061187,"date":"2023-05-25T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/25\/gypsy-roma-travellers-suffer-persistent-discrimination-uk"},"modified":"2023-05-25T05:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T05:00:12","slug":"gypsy-roma-and-travellers-suffer-persistent-discrimination-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/05\/25\/gypsy-roma-and-travellers-suffer-persistent-discrimination-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Gypsy, Roma and Travellers suffer \u2018persistent\u2019 discrimination in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Council of Europe finds \u2018shocking\u2019 levels of bullying in education system and threats to legal status and rights<\/p><p>There is \u201ctroublingly persistent\u201d levels of discrimination against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/roma-gypsies-and-travellers\">Gypsy, Roma and Travellers<\/a> (GRT) in the UK, an expert group from Europe\u2019s leading human rights body has found.<\/p><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/council-of-europe\">Council of Europe<\/a> committee said the GRT community suffer \u201cshocking\u201d amounts of bullying in the education system, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2019\/feb\/11\/patronising-and-totally-false-my-despair-at-tv-about-gypsies-a-very-british-history-bbc\">prejudiced reporting in the media<\/a> and threats to their legal status and rights, including as a result of recent legislative changes.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/25\/gypsy-roma-travellers-suffer-persistent-discrimination-uk\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/25\/gypsy-roma-travellers-suffer-persistent-discrimination-uk\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council of Europe finds \u2018shocking\u2019 levels of bullying in education system and threats to legal status and rightsThere is \u201ctroublingly persistent\u201d levels of discrimination against Gypsy, Roma and Travellers (GRT) in the UK, an expert group from Europe\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101,2007,6,2675,25233,2062,520,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061188,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061187\/revisions\/1061188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}