This week-end (May 28th) Traveller men climbed Croagh Patrick to promote positive mental health and raise money for the Traveller Counselling Service. The Croagh Patrick challenge is the second of four challenges Traveller Men’s Action Plan (TMAP) has undertaken this year as a way of meeting up, promoting positive action and having a chance to […]
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Month: May 2016
There was support for Pavee Point’s call for a ban on all Traveller evictions until decent Traveller accommodation is provided at today’s Oireachtas Committee on Housing and Homelessness. Deputy Fergus O’Dowd (FG) of Dundalk said he fully supported the call for no evictions. “There should be no evictions until people have somewhere decent to go […]
read more →The finding that Ireland has violated Article 16 of the European Social Charter in its treatment of Travellers confirms what Travellers and Traveller organisations have claimed for some time. “This finding by the European Committee of Social Rights is a high level decision that puts Ireland’s record on Travellers into a shameful light,” said Martin […]
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Photo: Clodagh McDonnell, Principal Officer, Dept. of Environment, Community and Local Government addresses the conference. Pavee Point was delighted to participate in this week’s Pobal/SICAP seminar on engagement with target groups. This was a very welcome space to focus on how to eliminate discrimination, promote equality and protect human rights through the Government’s Social Inclusion […]
read more →Counting Us In Pavee Point’s Counting Us In project has produced a short video highlighting the importance of ethnic data collection. Asking a universal question on ethnic group in data collection systems allows us to see how minority needs are being met within health systems, the education system and others.
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