Today, representatives from the Traveller and Roma Coalition attended Ireland’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) pre-session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The UPR is a United Nations process which reviews the human rights record of every UN Member State every four years. Today’s short (1 hour) pre-session provided an opportunity for Irish civil society […]
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Category: International
Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre today marks Roma Genocide Memorial Day: remembering the Roma victims of the Holocaust persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime simply for who they were. This day – 2 August – calls us to remember the particular night of 2–3 August 1944, when more than 3,000 Roma men, women and children were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Amid the atrocities of the Roma genocide — known as […]
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On Sunday Pavee Point attended the Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin. Kristian Simonic and Jessica Simonic, representing the Roma community in Ireland, took part in the candle lighting ceremony, remembering Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust. It is estimated that 500,000 Roma and Sinti were murdered, and another […]
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Pavee Point attended the Follow-up Dialogue with the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) Advisory Committee, hosted on November 6th by the Department of Children, Disability and Equality and moderated by Michaël Guet, Secretariat of the FCNM. Ireland ratified the FCNM in 1999 and the Irish State has recently been through its […]
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Pavee Point welcomes calls from the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) for “decisive action to secure the effective implementation of the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy”. It calls for sufficient resources, monitoring, and close cooperation with Traveller organisations and groups working with Roma to implement the Strategy. ECRI’s 6th monitoring report on […]
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