Europe: Traveller evictions a 'violation of human rights' by Government

The Government has been found responsible for multiple human rights violations in relation to Traveller accommodation and evictions.

In a decision to be published today, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Social Rights says the Government has failed to provide sufficient accommodation, that conditions are poor in many sites and that Traveller evictions are not handled properly.

The 55-page decision says 21 years after a taskforce identified the need for 1,000 transient halting bays to provide for short duration stays, just 54 are in existence and “not all function as proper transient sites”.