Pavee Point welcomes calls by legal rights organisation FLAC and the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) for ALL Traveller discrimination cases to be heard at the new Workplace Relations Commission The...
Pavee Point is supporting Action Against Racism to lobby the new Government to enact the Criminal Law (Hate Crime) Bill 2015. This new legislation would mean that crimes would be treated more seriously by...
This is what the political parties promise Travellers in their Election Manifestos: Fianna Fail “Although very significant improvements have been made over the last fifteen years, there remain serious issues with regards educational disadvantage...
National Traveller organisations have joined together to call on candidates and voters alike to INCLUDE Traveller priorities in this month’s General Election.
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...