Three new recruits joined our team of Home Visitors as part of our Education Programme. They completed training with the National College of Ireland before taking up their positions. The new recruits joined the Home Visitor team that works on the Parent Child Home Programme (PCHP) in the Finglas area. PCHP is an innovative literacy programme […]
read more →‘Suicide among Travellers is six times the national average and accounts for 11% of all Traveller deaths. This is shocking,” says John Collins of Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre on World Suicide Prevention Day, 10th September. John’s work on the Pavee Point Health Team involves raising awareness on Traveller suicide. ‘Traveller male suicide is […]
read more →Suicide accounts for 11% of all deaths within the Traveller community, according to the All Ireland Health Study 2010 and is six times higher than the national average. A variety of factors have led to these shocking statistics. Traveller mental health has been hugely affected by racism, discrimination, poverty and social exclusion. For example, the […]
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Pavee Point Health Team and the Irish Heart Foundation held a health day in Finglas on Monday the 7th of September. The Heart Foundation Roadshow set up in Avila Park and Cappagh Field so Travellers could have blood pressure checks. About 70 Travellers attended the checks and 23 out of the 70 were referred to […]
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Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre Press Statement June 9th 2015 Yes to Equality: Yes to Ethnicity Recognition? Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre today welcomes the questions posed by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights about Traveller and Roma rights, particularly around Traveller ethnicity recognition, poor education outcomes and persistent […]
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Ethnic data collection within a human rights framework in Ireland What is the project? This project is part of an ongoing campaign for ethnic data collection within a human rights framework in Ireland by Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre. This one year project funded by the Open Society Foundation, focuses on advocating for the […]
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The Department of Justice and Equailty have set up a new National Traveller Roma Inclusion Steering Group which is being chaired by Minister Ó Ríordáin. Pavee Point welcomes this new body, which has committed to revising our National Traveller Roma Integration Strategy, developing a data collection strategy and an assessment of need for the Roma […]
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Minister for Equality, Aodhan Ó Ríordáin presents Roma researchers with certificates as part of ground-breaking new research Ahead of International Roma and Traveller day on 8th April, 20 members of the Roma community were today awarded with certificates by Minister Ó Ríordáin for completing research training in Pavee Point. These researchers are part of a […]
read more →Promoting a YES in #MarRef Pavee Point is delighted to announce our support for a YES vote in the upcoming Marriage Equality referendum. As a human rights organisation, Pavee Point is committed to human rights for everyone, not just some of us. Pavee Point was also present to support the launch of BeLonGTo’s Yes campaign […]
read more →‘Make it Happen – Stop Violence against Women’ Sunday 8th of March marked International Women’s Day during which people across the world celebrate achievements and highlight gaps in women’s rights. Pavee Point delivered a thematic event to launch its International Women’s Day poster 2015 and engaged in a social media campaign to highlight violence against […]
read more →Easter Celebrations with the Parent Child Home Programme Families from the Pavee Point Parent Child Home Programme (PCHP) attended Easter celebrations in the IFSC, Dublin on Thursday 26 March. The event was organised by the Early Learning Initiative in the National College of Ireland for PCHP families from Inchicore, Docklands and the Finglas area. Currently […]
read more →What’s it like being young Roma and LGBT? “Although we are two barely educated Roma women living in quite bad conditions, we dared to ask to be recognised as a same-sex family and, when resettled, to be granted one social housing unit where we will be living together.”(Maria, 28, Serbia) You can read the life […]
read more →Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre Press Statement February 24th 2015 Minister: Get Rid of Discriminatory Enrolment Policies Speaking today following the Supreme Court dismissal in the case of Stokes v High School Clonmel, Pavee Point Director Martin Collins highlighted the ongoing and endemic discrimination created by enrolment policies in Ireland. “This outcome effectively legalises […]
read more →Public Sector Duty A positive duty in mainstreaming equality and human rights on a statutory basis in Ireland On February 10th, Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre hosted a seminar on the introduction of a Positive Public Sector Duty for Ireland. The seminar was held in UNITE, the Union House and attended by over […]
read more →EXPECT RESPECT! Campaign to prevent violence against young Traveller women Pavee Point engaged in a thematic 16 Days of Action Campaign, which aimed to raise awareness about violence affecting young girls and women and promote healthy relationships based on respect and equality. The campaign produced awareness raising EXPECT RESPECT! wristbands, and ran a social media […]
read more →Breaking the Barriers- Discrimination Against Roma Women and Roma LGBT Pavee Point attended a transnational workshop on discrimination against Roma and Travellers in Helsinki, Finland, on 2-3 December. Breaking the Barriers workshop brought together Roma and non-Roma civil society activists and local, regional and national authorities from all over Europe. The workshop presented good practice models […]
read more →Water is a Human Right As part of One World Week, young Travellers investigated water and its impact on young people and young Travellers, including those living in poor conditions in Ireland. They made a video about their investigations to present what they learned. The video and the making of it, were featured on RTE […]
read more →According to a Eurobarometer survey, over one in two Europeans believe that discrimination because of one’s racial or ethnic origin is widespread. However, there is no data available across Europe on how amny people experience this discrimination. Without measuring it, it is impossible to challenge it. The European Network Against Racism have launched a new report “Measure, […]
read more →In November 2014, the Pavee Point Health Programme instituted a series of health sessions on topical health issues to increase health awareness among Travellers and Roma. The health days aim to provide information to staff members in Pavee Point, with Traveller staff and community health workers sharing that information with their families and friends on […]
read more →A thematic Roma Rights Forum was held in Pavee Point on 16 October. This thematic session examined the process of undertaking local needs analyses through a discussion of principles and approaches to working with communities. The following three areas were discussed: Human Rights Based Approaches – Fidelma Joyce, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. Including […]
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