Yesterday (July 21) our Primary Health Care team welcomed Anne Costello, of the Traveller Justice Initiative, to Pavee Point to lead an information session and discussion for Primary Health Care workers and trainees. Anne spoke of the structural and social determinants that lead to the disproportionately high number of Travellers in prison, and of the […]
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Pavee Point welcomed the opportunity to attend the launch of Beyond Gender Quotas – Addressing the Political Exclusion of Traveller Women in Ireland, hosted by the National Traveller Women’s Forum today at Buswells Hotel, Dublin. The research explores the barriers that prevent Traveller women from entering politics and being represented in political decision-making. Speakers highlighted […]
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Today Donegal Travellers Project celebrate their 30 Year Anniversary with a conference in Letterkenny that brings together an inspiring lineup of speakers. Just some of those addressing attendees at the conference – ‘Pride Not Prejudice – 30 Years On: Donegal Travellers Project’ – include Senator Eileen Flynn, Dr Rosaleen McDonagh (playwright and Human Rights Commissioner), […]
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Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre welcomes last week’s publication of the ‘Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2026-2030’ by the Department of Social Protection. The commitment to the development of a successor to the National Traveller Health Action Plan and the extension of the Traveller Brighter Beginnings Initiative is welcomed, as is the commitment to develop […]
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Last week, Pavee Point was in attendance at the annual University for All Symposium in UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business. ‘Call It Out: Racism impacting the Traveller and Roma experience in higher education,’ focused on moving beyond institutional rhetoric to confront both overt and nuanced barriers. A panel discussion described how policy in Ireland […]
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Last Thursday, the National Traveller and Roma Forum came together for its second annual meeting in Dublin. Hosted by National Traveller and Roma organisations and the Department of Children, Disability and Equality, the meeting was an opportunity for stakeholders to discuss progress regarding the implementation of the National Traveller Inclusion Strategy (NTRIS II) at local […]
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On Tuesday 03 March the National Traveller Drug Network (NTDN) met in Dublin to reflect on and discuss the draft National Drugs Strategy II (2026-2027). At the meeting, led by Anna Quigley of Citywide, NTDN members stressed the need to ensure direct participation and representation of Traveller organisations in the strategy’s implementation structures. Concern was […]
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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 →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 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 […]
read more →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 […]
read more →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 […]
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