Travellers & Roma: Human Rights & Community Work Training Course
This course is now full. If you wish you can apply to go on a waiting list. Are you interested in a unique and challenging experience for Traveller and Roma leaders? Would you value...
Our Chairperson on Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity
March 1st was a historic and symbolic day for Travellers as their more than thirty year struggle to have their ethnicity fully recognized and acknowledged was successfully concluded by the fullsome statement by the...
Taoiseach’s Statement on Traveller Ethnicity
Statement by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD On the recognition of Travellers as an ethnic group Dáil Éireann 1 March 2017 A Cheann Comhairle, Thank you for making time in the House today for...
Traveller Ethnicity Recognised by State
The 1st March 2017 was an historic and momentous day for the Irish Traveller community and for equality in Ireland. Our statement on the recognition of Traveller ethnicity here. Taoiseach’s Statement on Traveller ethnicity here....
Award for Our ‘Be Breast Cancer Aware’ Card
Pavee Point won the National Adult Literacy Association(NALA) ‘Plain English Award’ for public health information. The awards are given for producing information through language that is easy to read and understand. Inez Bailey, CEO of...
Traveller Mental Health Highlighted with Minister
Helen McEntee, TD Minister for Mental Health and Older People visited Pavee Point today and heard about the serious mental health issues facing Travellers: · A suicide rate that is 7 times greater than...
Traveller & Roma Women’s Rights Under Review at United Nations Next Week
In the coming days, Pavee Point is representing the rights of Traveller and Roma women during the 66th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in...
Workshops on SICAP ethnic identifier
In February 2017 we held a series of workshops with SICAP Programme Implementers and reps from Local Community Development Committees on implementing an ethnic identifier in SICAP are kicking off in Dublin. This work...
Career coaching for Traveller/Roma interested in clerical work
The Health Service Executive will be recruiting for Clerical Officer, Grade lll. They are offering a day’s of Career Coaching to support Travellers or Roma who wish to apply for these jobs. The Career...
Roma in Ireland Commemorate Loss on Holocaust Memorial Day
Gabi Muntean of Pavee Point’s Roma Project addressed the Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration at Dublin’s Mansion House on Sunday 29th January. “Hundreds and thousands of Roma and Sinti people were rounded up, forced into...