On June 27, 2023 was an oral hearing in the proceedings of Stichting Sinti, Roma and Travelers against the municipality of The Hague concerning discrimination and human rights violations of travellers by the municipality.<\/p>\n
For many years, the municipality of The Hague has pursued a so-called extinction policy for caravan sites. This eviction policy was discriminatory and in violation of human rights. The central government itself explicitly acknowledged this in 2018. The government must facilitate travellers to experience their culture together and this includes, above all, being able to live in a caravan. The municipality of The Hague has been frequently reminded of this human rights duty by the travellers, but the municipality has done virtually nothing. That is why the Sinti, Roma and Travelers Foundation, supported by lawyers from PILP and Houthoff, has started a lawsuit.<\/p>\n
The Foundation is asking the court to rule that the municipality of The Hague is discriminating and acting unlawfully by not adjusting the policy and by not realizing more caravan sites, precisely also because 110 sites have been actively evicted wrongfully in the past. The Foundation also wants the court to order the municipality to stop the discrimination, adjust its policy and create enough new trailer sites.<\/p>\n
The municipality has chosen to raise a number of, as far as the Foundation is concerned, unnecessary formal admissibility defenses, so we have not discussed the substance of the case – human rights and discrimination – today. In short, the municipality feels that the Travellers Foundation would not meet all the legal admissibility requirements under the collective action law and that the Foundation would not be the right party to stand up for Travellers in The Hague. This is unfortunate because it delays the proceedings, which will be long anyway.<\/p>\n
However, the Foundation is confident that the court will give it access to the proceedings. It is a clear public interest lawsuit and the Foundation looks forward to being able to talk about human rights.<\/p>\n
Read the Foundation’s reply brief on admissibility here<\/a>. Read the Foundation’s pleading note here<\/a>. Read more about the extermination policy for travellers’ camps here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On June 27, 2023 was an oral hearing in the proceedings of Stichting Sinti, Roma and Travelers against the municipality of The Hague concerning discrimination and human rights violations of travellers by the municipality. For many years, the municipality of The Hague has pursued a so-called extinction policy for caravan sites. This eviction policy was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[115,114,149],"sk_connection":[168],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-items","tag-caravan-policy","tag-discrimination","tag-lawsuit","sk_connection-woonwagenbeleid-en"],"yoast_head":"\n