VAW Good Practice Guidance

These good practice guidelines were launched in Q4 2011 by the Pavee Point Violence Against Women Programme.

VAW Best Practice Guidelines for Service Providers

Marioara Rostas - a candle-lit vigil.

Members of the public and supporters from the settled, Roma and Traveller community joined Pavee Point Travellers’ Centre on Friday 10 February in a candle-lit vigil remembering Marioara Rostas, the Roma teenager found murdered in Dublin in January.

The simple vigil was organised in response to expressions of shock and goodwill from people contacting Pavee Point […]

Candle-lit vigil for Marioara Rostas

Pavee Point invites you to join us at a candle-lit silent vigil in memory of Marioara Rostas, the young Roma woman murdered in tragic circumstances in 2008 whose body was found  last month. She is being buried in Romania on Friday and to coincide with that we wanted to mark this in Ireland through a show of solidarity […]

Roma News Update

Roma Communities in Ireland: Maternal and Child Health Seminar

Pavee Point and the HSE are organising a series of thematic seminars focusing on Roma communities in Ireland and the provision of services, for the duration of 2012.  The next in the series of seminars will be on maternal and child health.

When & Where:

29 February […]

Fundraising for Bangladesh

A fundraising effort in the week before Pavee Point’s Christmas break raised enough money to buy more than 300 blankets and jumpers for Bangladeshis experiencing a serious cold snap in the country.

Nurul Amin, education and training manager for Pavee Point was made aware of the situation in December, when temperatures in the normally warm […]

Statement on Marioara Rostas

Pavee Point Statement

Jan 24 2012

Marioara Rostas

Pavee Point would like to express deepest condolences to the family of Marioara Rostas.  The circumstances surrounding Marioara’s disappearance and death are extremely distressing.

This tragic situation highlights concerns about risks faced by members of Roma communities and in particular Roma women, in Ireland.  Roma women are a risk […]

Pavee Point launches new resource on Domestic and Sexual Violence

Kim Turcotte, Kieran Collins, Sandra Byrne, Tessa Collins

Pavee Point Violence Against Women programme today launched its new flagship resource on domestic and sexual violence. The resource ‘Pavees Tarrying & Romani Zoraji Vorba’ aims to provide information, education and reassurance as part of an education and training environment.

The resource, which is in DVD […]