Pavee Point and the HSE have worked together to produce a number of resources that highlight how important it is, at this time, to keep children home from school if they have COVID19 symptoms. If children have symptoms – cough of any kind, a fever, change in taste or smell or shortness of breath – […]
read more →The Council of Europe’s 8th International Roma Women’s Conference took place in Strasbourg this month. A number of #Traveller women participated in the conference including our own Mary Brigid McCann – with Senator Eileen Flynn participating in the opening of conference. Also participating was Bridgie Nevin of TravAct Coolock and Bridget Kelly, Maria Joyce and […]
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Pavee Point’s Violence Against Women (VAW) Programme provides a Traveller and Roma analysis of gender-based violence (GBV). We map out the specific issues and barriers that Traveller and Roma women face in relation to domestic and sexual violence and develop responses to violence against Traveller and Roma women. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence […]
read more →Martin Collins, Co Director and Anastasia Crickley, Chairpersn received the 2020 Max van der Stoel Award on behalf of Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre at a ceremony at the Peace Palace in The Hague today. Tribute to John O Connell In accepting the award Martin Collins paid special tribute to John O Connell one […]
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Our Mary Collins was delighted today to accept the Initiative of the Year at the Friends of Breastfeeding Awards 2021 today. Mary spoke of our hope that Pavee Mothers breastfeeding initiative which includes an information booklet and promotional work will encourage more Traveller mums to breastfeed and to know where to go for support. As […]
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The Oireachtas Justice Committee has heard of the devastating impact of hate crime on affected communities Pavee Point and from other members of the Coalition Against Hate Crime Ireland. The Committee met as legislation to outlaw hate crime and review incitement to hatred provisions is being prepared. Photo – Jenny Liston, Pavee Point speaking at Oireachtas […]
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Traveller Collection website and book was launched this week and was a strong reminder of the need for Traveller culture and identity to become more visible in our institutions. The project Traveller Collection took place in 2018 and Pavee Point Co Director Martin Collins mentioned this week some positive developments that had taken place since […]
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Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre is part of a network of 32 national community and voluntary organisations – The Community Platform – that launched ‘Principles for Delivering a Public Childcare Model’ this week and called for the delivery of a public childcare model in Ireland. The Six Principles for a Public Childcare Model are: […]
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Pavee Point is encouraged that over half of the UN Member States highlighted the importance of combatting racism at Ireland’s Universal Periodic Review yesterday. We are joined in this by the National Traveller Women’s Forum, Galway Traveller Movement, Donegal Traveller Project and Minceirs Whiden. Many of the103 countries specifically mentioned Traveller & Roma issues and […]
read more →How do Travellers feel about the Gardaí and the courts in Ireland? A team of Traveller/Mincéir/Pavee researchers, working with staff at the University of Limerick, are collecting information about our views on the gardaí and the courts. Pavee Point is also supporting this research. What they find will provide evidence to the Irish Human Rights […]
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Well done to all the awardees at the Exchange House Traveller Education Awards. And particularly well done to our own Tracey Reilly who graduated with 1st Class Honours in her BA in Youth and Community Work at Maynooth University this year. Travellers in education have obstacles to overcome in order to succeed in the education […]
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As COP26 begins in Glasgow, Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre stands in solidarity with marginalised and minority peoples and communities globally experiencing the differential effects and impact of climate change. And we stand with civil society organisations globally campaigning for climate justice. Pavee Point calls on Minister Eamon Ryan,TD, heading the Irish delegation to COP26, […]
read more →Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre is participating in Eradicate Poverty Day event hosted this Sunday by All Together in Dignity. COVID-19 has served to highlight the inequalities that exist and we have seen how Travellers and Roma have been more vulnerable during this pandemic. Not only do marginalised groups have poorer outcomes in health […]
read more →Traveller and Roma human rights organisations welcome today a settlement by An Garda Síochána, Ireland’s police service, in relation to a discrimination complaint made against them by a US Romani Scholar who travelled to Ireland in August 2017 for a Roma Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration. The event was co-sponsored by the then Irish Department of Justice and […]
read more →A report from Covid-19 Roma Response Partnership of HSE Social Inclusion and ngos says the COVID-19 Response for Vulnerable People (CRVP) service needs to be part of the ‘new normal’ to ensure a humanitarian response to vulnerable Roma families, in Dublin At the launch of a report highlighting the positive work of the CRVP, Maxine […]
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The theme for this year’s #WorldMentalHealthDay is Mental Health in an Unequal World. During the #COVID-19 pandemic we saw that health inequalities that already existed were made worse and this was the case too for Irish Travellers. Speaking to Oireachtas In July this year, Geraldine McDonnell, Mental Health Worker with Pavee Point gave an […]
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Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre highlighted, at the launch today of Pavee Mothers breastfeeding videos and information booklet, that only 2% of Traveller mothers breastfeed compared to over half (56%) of the general population. Today’s initiative, on the first day of National Breastfeeding Week, is to help revitalise breastfeeding in the Traveller community. And […]
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Pavee Point is delighted to be part of student festival #RiseUp with Stand. The annual STAND Student Festival returns to campuses across Ireland from the 27th of September to the 12th of November 2021. The theme of this year’s festival is resilience, and this year’s exhibition will celebrate young people’s courage and creativity in rising […]
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Advocacy Paper On Traveller Homelessness As part of its ongoing work to highlight Traveller homelessness, Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre published an advocacy paper to highlight the issue of Traveller homelessness and to inform the development of strategic and advocacy actions which are required to address this urgent issue. Data from Census 2016 reports that 39% […]
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The National Traveller Drug Network met on Thurs 23rd September. Paula Leonard from Alcohol Ireland presented on 1) the harms associated with drinking 2) drink delivery culture and associated harms and 3) the current national campaign on drink deliveries. This was followed by a discussion where participants highlighted concerns regarding alcohol consumption and how this has changed since the […]
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