Traveller, Equality and Justice Project: "An overview of the Protections provided by the ECHR for Travellers" - Thursday 14th November @ 6pm

The TEJP is pleased to announce a series of seminars on the European Convention on Human Rights and the rights it affords Travellers and Roma, specifically focusing on how the European Court of Human Rights has applied these within its judgments.

These events will be of interest to Travellers and Roma, Community Organisations, Legal Clinic staff and lawyers. They aim to provide key information regarding relevant Council of Europe rights frameworks, including the ECHR, and provide an understanding of the experiences of taking such cases from a practice based perspective.

Run during November 2024, these events will provide information regarding specific rights protections, the experience of taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights and an understanding of how the Court has applied these rights through its judgments.

The full series is as follows:

1. 'An overview of the Protections provided by the ECHR for Travellers’ - Sinead Lucey, FLAC 14th November 6pm (Teams) 
2. ‘Litigating before the ECtHR - Marc Willers, KC’ 18th November 6pm ( In Person, UCC)
3. ‘Impact of the ECHR for Traveller Rights across Europe – Marc Willers, KC.’ 27th November 6pm (Teams).

Registration here is for Seminar 1 only. Registration for each session is essential.

For more details about the series please see: https://www.ucc.ie/en/tejp/news/

The Traveller Equality and Justice Project is funded by the Council of Europe, Roma and Travellers Division for September-December 2024 for activity 'Rights Aware,' Capacity Building for Roma and Traveller Civil Society organisations to use Council of Europe standards and mechanisms for promoting rights of Roma and Travellers.