equality Archives - Pavee Point

Minister for Equality, Aodhan Ó Ríordáin presents Roma researchers with certificates as part of ground-breaking new research.

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 […]

Promoting a YES in #MarRef

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 […]

What’s it like being young Roma and LGBT?

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 […]

PP calls on OSCE to promote Inclusion

Pavee Point attended the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting in Vienna in October. The meeting, organized jointly by the Ukrainian 2013 OSCE Chairmanship and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), marked the 10th anniversary of the Action Plan on Roma and Sinti inclusion and presented the ODIHR’s 2013 Status Report on its […]

Traveller Ethnicity at Joint Oireachtas Committee

Pavee Point this week welcomed the completion of hearings at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice and Equality on the issue of Traveller ethnicity. The Committee heard from Traveller organisations in April 2013. In the Summer of this year, they heard from several academics, and have just completed hearing submissions from the Human Rights Commission […]

Equality and Ethnic Data Seminar

On Monday November 4th, Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, with NUIM’s Department of Applied Social Sciences hosted a Data Collection seminar in Dublin. With over 100 people in attendance, speakers Claire Fernandez from the European Network Against Racism, Professor Raj Bhopal of the University of Edinburgh and Brigid Quirke from Pavee Point and UCD […]