Pavee Point welcomes many of the commitments regarding Travellers and Roma outlined in a draft Programme for Government agreed and published today – but highlights the challenges of implementation. “The Coronavirus pandemic has shown...
Pavee Point very much welcomes the appointment of Traveller woman Rosaleen McDonagh as a commissioner to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. Rosaleen is a Traveller woman with a disability, playwright and IHREC...
Men’s Health Week starts on Monday and Traveller men are taking action in highlighting the impact of COVID-19 on Traveller men’s health – physical, social and spiritual. Men have been severely affected by COVID-19...
Joint statement from Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, Irish Traveller Movement, National Traveller Women’s Forum, Minceirs Whiden,Exchange House Ireland, Involve, The Parish of the Travelling People, Traveller Mediation Service, Traveller Counselling Service and National Traveller MABS: We as Traveller organisations are...
This week, Traveller men take to social media to speak up against domestic violence during Covid-19/Coronavirus Pandemic. The messages are by Traveller men, for men, reminding them that domestic violence, no matter the circumstance,...
Like many Irish people I am outraged by the death in police custody of George Floyd and by the responses of his country’s leadership. Yesterday’s minutes silence in Dáil Éireann was a good gesture...
Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre stands in solidarity with all who are outraged by the death of George Floyd. In particular, we want to express our condolences and solidarity with his family, to...
Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre is looking to recruit a Advocacy Worker for for our Violence Against Women Programme. The Advocacy Worker will work to implement programme aims and objectives in order to address...
Critical to mitigating COVID19 within the Traveller and Roma communities during this crisis has been the partnership approach adopted by the HSE, government departments and Traveller organisations. The level of interdepartmental work now...
Gabi Mutean, Community Development Worker talks about Roma Resistance Day “We commemorate the uprisings at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp of Roma prisoners. The SS came to the Gypsy Camp to send all the prisoners...
