Press Ombudsman Upholds Prejudice Complaint
Pavee Point is delighted today to highlight the decision by the Press Ombudsman to uphold a complaint made by Shane O Curry of ENAR that a column by Mr Ian O Doherty of the...
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention has agreed to discuss how economic, social and cultural rights can be further enhanced through the Irish Constitution. The development follows work led by Amnesty International and supported by ATD Fourth World...
Ireland’s 4th Periodic Examination under the ICCPR
The UN has released the List of Issues for consideration during Ireland’s Fourth Periodic Examination under the International Convention of Civil and Political Rights. This List provides the foundation for the discussion with the...
RCSI Traveller Community Access Programme
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland have developed a Traveller Community Access Programme (TCAP) which aims to increase the participation and success rates of members of the Traveller community in third level educational...
Minister Fitzgerald launches Violence against Women: An Issue of Gender
The Irish Observatory on Violence Against Women, chaired by National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI), has launched its publication of “Violence Against Women: An Issue of Gender. The publication was launched in December 2013...
Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse
The Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse published an article that Siobhan Cafferty, former Pavee Point Drugs Programme Coordinator, co-authored with researchers from the Health Research Board in November 2013, pertaining to Travellers accessing...
Traveller Drug Network- 18th February
The 1st 2014 TDN will take place on Tuesday, 18 February from 11am – 4pm at Pavee Point. Noel O’Connor from Urrús/Ballymun Youth Action Project will provide the input on ‘Performance & Image Enhancing...
Relationship and Sexuality Education Toolkit
On 13th January the Youth Work programme delivered Relationship and Sexuality Education Toolkit training to organisations working with young Travellers. The participants attending were made up of Travellers and settled people working directly with...
Forced Evictions of Roma double in France
Budapest, Paris, 14 January 2014: French authorities forcibly evicted more than 21,537 Romani migrants in 2013, more than double the total for 2012. Law enforcement officers carried out 165 evictions affecting almost 19,380 people. There...
Free English Language Classes for Roma
What: Free English classes When: Thursday afternoons, starting January 2014. Where: Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre Registration: Contact Gabi Muntean or Monika Makulova at 01 8780255 – gabif.muntean@pavee.ie / monika.makulova@pavee.ie