Travellers’ rights

Ethnic Jenisch fight for transit sites.

The Swiss gypsy people, known as the Jenisch, were once subject to ethnic cleansing. For almost fifty years, the Swiss government advocated and funded the wholesale kidnapping of Jenisch children in an effort to wipe out their culture. About 3000 of them still head out on the road each summer, working as antique dealers or crafts people. But most of them have nowhere to stop for the winter months. (SF archive 2007)