Month: November 2018

16 Days of Action Today marks the beginning of the 16 Days of Action Opposing Violence Against Women – a time to come together and work to prevent and end violence against women around the world. The campaign runs from the 25th of November, the International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women, to the […]

Photo: (L to R) Patrick Reilly, Pavee Point, Nuala Kelly, Pavee Point, Sheila Nunan, ICTU, Des Geraghty, Ethel Buckley SIPTU and Michael Halpenny Front Row (L to R) Michael Farrell, Fr Peter McVerry, Lucky Khambule, Bernadette McAliskey. ‘We Shall Overcome Civil Rights – the Struggle Continues’ was a seminar held in Liberty Hall on the 10th […]

Pavee Point helped celebrate International Men’s Day at The Men’s Development Network event to highlight the need to end men’s violence against women and girls and to promote gender equality. The event was attended by Fergal Fox, general manager of the Health Service Executive, Orla O ‘Connor CEO of National Women’s Council of Ireland and […]

Missie Collins was one of the panelists at the launch of ‘Out of Silence’ a report by the National Women’s Council of Ireland on women’s mental health.  The report acknowledges the role discrimination and racism has to play in contributing to poor mental health for women along with other factors. Dr Clodagh Dowling delivered the […]

Pavee Point was delighted to attend the first National Drug Forum on Monday which was held in the Aviva stadium and hosted by the Department of Health and the Heath Research Board.   Pavee Point attended two workshops, one on ‘Dual Diagnosis:using partnership and peer support as resources in treatment’. Clondalkin Drug and Alcohol Task […]

Traveller PHC workers attended a NWCI seminar ‘No Feminist Budget 2019’ on 17th October on the impact of Budget 19 on women and the importance of measuring this. We supported the NWCI call for equality budgeting and for an equality statement was called for in the next budget. “When the budget is getting done we’re […]