Homelessness Committee proposals show Traveller accommodation is part of the homelessness crisis and displays a much needed positive approach to improving living conditions for Irish Travellers, according to Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre. We are delighted the Committee echoes our calls for a moratorium on evictions, Traveller accommodation implementation mechanisms to include Travellers and […]
read more →Over 200 Traveller men made their way to the Phoenix Park on 14th of June for health checks on Traveller Men’s Health Day, supported by the Eastern Regional Traveller Health Network and part of Men’s Health Week. Organisations such as the Irish Cancer Society, Pieta House, Headstrong, Jigsaw and the Marie Keating Foundation provided health information […]
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‘Until we have brought about an end to inequality, oppression and poverty and the establishment of a republic which is representative of the whole people of Ireland including the Traveller community…. the struggle for freedom from oppression continues,’…so reads the Traveller Re-Proclamation of the Republic as read by actor John Connors, whose grandfather participated in […]
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The sun may not have been shining but there was a sunny atmosphere at the Garden Party in Áras an Uachtaráin yesterday (June 7) to celebrate multi-culturalism and diversity.
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Pavee Point’s Roma Programme attended last week’s Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller Organisations in Strasbourg where there was a focus on combatting hate speech. Mr. Rui Gomes of the Council of Europe Youth Department spoke about their ‘No Hate Speech Movement’ and Stefano Valenti of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance […]
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To mark Men’s Health Week (Monday 13th – Sunday 19th June 2016), Ten Traveller Primary Health Care Projects in the Eastern Region Traveller Health Unit will host a Traveller men’s Health Day on the 14th of June in the Phoenix Park. Participants will be able to get their Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Checked. Health information will be […]
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There was a full house at this year’s Traveller Pride Awards at the Pillar Room, the Rotunda today (1st June) as people travelled from all over the country to attend. Two of the awards went to Cork, one to Kerry, two to Galway, one each to Clare and Meath and the MC for the event was […]
read more →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 […]
read more →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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The first ever national Roma Committee is being set up and the Department of Justice and Equality are inviting Roma to apply to be part of this group. This is an exciting opportunity for Roma leaders to represent the Roma community at a national level. The Roma Committee will identify and discuss issues of concern […]
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(Photo. Back L to R – Dean Collins, John McDonnell, Michael Tyrell, Mikey Collins, Hughie Collins, Martin Collins. Front L to R – Mikey Quinn, Martin Collins, Joe Collins, Martin Collins, Daniel Kavanagh) It was great to see Travellers represented at two main events celebrating the 1916 Rising Centenary. A group of young Dublin Travellers […]
read more →Sunday 24th of April 2016 is the 100th anniversary date of the start of the 1916 Rising. On this date a group of citizens are organising a march and pageant to ‘Reclaim 1916’. Pavee Point is joining this pageant and march to re-state the Proclamation vision of an equal and just society and we urge […]
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Over 100 Roma and Travellers gathered in Pavee Point today to celebrate International Roma and Traveller Day on 8th of April. “In a year that we have celebrated Irish identity with such pride in the 1916 commemorations, my community still don’t have our ethnic status recognised by the State. The tragedy of Carrickmines was a […]
read more →Pavee Point welcomes Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council’s statement last night that it is developing long-term permanent accommodation at the Glenamuck Road for the family bereaved by the Carrickmines fire tragedy in October 2015. It is also to be welcomed that the County Council are negotiating directly with the family involved and it is important […]
read more →Fifteen years ago the Durban Declaration stated the prime responsibility for combating racism lay with Governments. Today to mark International Day Against Racism Martin Collins calls for a new National Action Plan Against Racism. For any plan against racism to work we need to know the situation for minority ethnic groups so that is why […]
read more →Good news from the Kilkenny Traveller Community Movement who have secured the right to appeal the seizure of 29 horses as part of Operation Storm on the 17th of February. Their case will now go to the High Court. ‘This is only the first step,” says Bernard Power of the Kilkenny Traveller Movement. Read their […]
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Tessa Collins, Pavee Point’s Violence Against Women Programme and Kathleen Lawrence, Pavee Point’s Traveller Primary Health Care Project and Maria Joyce of the National Traveller Women’s Forum are speaking today at Maynooth University’s one-day conference to mark International Women’s Day 2016. Tessa and Kathleen are speaking about the role of Community Development in advancing the […]
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