Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre is participating in Eradicate Poverty Day event hosted this Sunday by All Together in Dignity. COVID-19 has served to highlight the inequalities that exist and we have seen how Travellers and Roma have been more vulnerable during this pandemic. Not only do marginalised groups have poorer outcomes in health […]
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Month: October 2021
Traveller and Roma human rights organisations welcome today a settlement by An Garda Síochána, Ireland’s police service, in relation to a discrimination complaint made against them by a US Romani Scholar who travelled to Ireland in August 2017 for a Roma Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration. The event was co-sponsored by the then Irish Department of Justice and […]
read more →A report from Covid-19 Roma Response Partnership of HSE Social Inclusion and ngos says the COVID-19 Response for Vulnerable People (CRVP) service needs to be part of the ‘new normal’ to ensure a humanitarian response to vulnerable Roma families, in Dublin At the launch of a report highlighting the positive work of the CRVP, Maxine […]
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The theme for this year’s #WorldMentalHealthDay is Mental Health in an Unequal World. During the #COVID-19 pandemic we saw that health inequalities that already existed were made worse and this was the case too for Irish Travellers. Speaking to Oireachtas In July this year, Geraldine McDonnell, Mental Health Worker with Pavee Point gave an […]
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Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre highlighted, at the launch today of Pavee Mothers breastfeeding videos and information booklet, that only 2% of Traveller mothers breastfeed compared to over half (56%) of the general population. Today’s initiative, on the first day of National Breastfeeding Week, is to help revitalise breastfeeding in the Traveller community. And […]
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