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Cross-Party Parliamentary Groups call on Secretary of State for Education to include Roma and Sinti in Holocaust Teaching

Today, Parliamentarians have written to the Secretary of State for Education Nadhim Zahawi as part of mounting pressure to include the Roma genocide as a mandatory part of Holocaust teaching in schools. The letter, written by

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One Year On: Ofcom yet to release findings of investigation on Channel 4’s ‘The Truth About Traveller Crime’

Today marks one year since Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches: The Truth About Traveller Crime’ first aired. The programme promoted highly damaging tropes of Gypsy and Traveller communities. Following its airing, the show received widespread criticism and a

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FFT call for police and social media sites to do more to support Gypsies, Roma and Travellers experiencing hate crime

This Saturday 10th October marks the first day of National Hate Crime Awareness Week. Friends, Families and Travellers will be taking part by highlighting the impacts that hate crimes, both in person and online, have on Gypsies,

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Advocacy organisations and creatives ask for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers to be included in BBC’s Creative Diversity Commitment

On 1st September Friends, Families and Travellers and 26 organisations and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people working in the creative industries wrote to June Sarpong OBE, the Director of Creativity at the BBC calling on the

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