(English) Essex University releases a Guide to Legal Observing of Forced Evictions

The Essex Human Rights Clinic of the Essex University has recently released a  Guide to Legal Observing of Forced Evictions. Bellow you can read the Introduction section and you can also download the document.

The Essex Human Rights Clinic, part of the Human Rights Centre and School of Law at the University of Essex, was established in 2009 to offer students the opportunity to gain valuable practical experience in promoting and protecting human rights. The Human Rights Clinic emphasises practice as a way of addressing complex human rights issues while meeting the needs and interests of real people.

Since spring 2009, teams of postgraduate human rights students from the Clinic have been working on the Dale Farm project, aiming to develop, in consultation with the community, and in support of engaged solicitors and related organisations, alternative solutions to the planned forced eviction of the Gypsy and Traveller community located in Billericay, UK.2

This Guide was compiled by Human Rights Clinic students involved in the Dale Farm project in order to give guidance to legal observers in the UK and around the world regarding best practices for the conduct of legal observation. It provides information on relevant international human rights norms and standards, along with monitoring methodologies, to aid legal observers in ensuring that forced evictions are conducted in accordance with human rights standards.

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