As discrimination against travellers and gypsies deepens disturbingly across Europe, a leading human rights NGO has spoken out on behalf of Roma in Italy.

Amnesty International is calling on the UK authorities to stop the planned eviction of up to 86 Irish Traveller families in Essex.

Amnesty International is calling on French President Nicolas Sarkozy to combat widespread discrimination against Roma and Travellers in France

Amid growing concern about the victimisation of travelling people across Europe, human rights activists have condemned the forced eviction of a community of some 400 Roma people in the Italian capital, Rome.