Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muižnieks, makes a strong statement on Travellers and Roma in the wake of the Carrickmines fire tragedy while this week the Council of Europe Ad hoc Committee of Experts...

Recommendations released today by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) urge the Irish state to address discrimination against Traveller and Roma children and to recognise Travellers as a minority ethnic...

Traveller Men’s Action Plan held its second planning session this week since its launch last December.  Traveller men from the whole Eastern Region participated in this practical and positive event. The first part of the...

About 200 Travellers and Traveller supporters gathered outside the Dáil today to protest at Traveller evictions and the Traveller accommodation crisis. Here we show excerpts from Rebecca Quinn’s speech.  Rebecca is one of the...

In General Election 2016 we are asking political parties and all election candidates to include these  6 points in their Election Manifestos: Establish a National Traveller Agency This Agency will co-ordinate and drive existing...

Our report, launched today, shows that mental health services for Travellers are inadequate and that there needs to be a much more targeted approach to combat a suicide rate that is 7 times the...

 Patrick Reilly, of Pavee Point’s Violence Against Women Programme spoke today at the launch of its first Strategy Statement by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. He called on the Government for progress...

Are you going to the consultation on the National Traveller Roma Inclusion Strategy (NTRIS)  in Dublin on the 11th of February? Pavee Point is holding  a briefing for Travellers, Roma  and Traveller/Roma  organisations attending...

Travellers and Traveller organisations came from around the country to Dundalk today to attend a protest organised by the 23 Traveller families evicted from Woodland Park in the last week.   The protest took place...