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India wins election to UN panel on racial discrimination
United Nations, Dec 1 (IANS) India's nominee Dilip Lahiri has been re-elected to serve on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for a three year term, beginning Jan 20, 2012. Lahiri, who has had a distinguished career in the Indian Foreign Service for close to four decades before retiring in 2005, secured 147 votes in the elections held here Wednesday. Huang Yong'an

UK riot police clear illegal Traveler camp

British police used sledgehammers, crowbars and a cherry picker Wednesday to clear the way for the eviction of Irish Travelers from a site where they have lived illegally for a decade.

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UK High Court rejects Traveler eviction appeal
Britain's High Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal from a community of Irish Travelers to prevent their eviction from an illegal site where they have lived for a decade.

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Irish Travelers win last-minute stay of eviction

A group of Irish Travelers facing eviction from their English campsite won a last-minute reprieve Monday when a judge prevented bailiffs from removing any structures in their settlement.

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Evicted UK Travelers forced to hit the road

Vivien Slattery has lived her whole life — all 16 days of it — in a tidy mobile home, one of dozens more like it on a crowded site beside green English fields. Her mother grew up

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UN urges UK to suspend eviction of gypsy families
New York, Sept 3 (IBNS) The United Nations committee tasked with combating racial discrimination Friday voiced deep regret at the insistence by United Kingdom authorities that Gypsy and Irish Traveller families in the county of Essex will be evicted with no culturally appropriate alternative accommodation provided to them.

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