Pavee Point wrote to the Taoiseach and Minister for Foreign Affairs this week seeking humanitarian aid and human rights protection for Roma and other minorities in Ukraine. Martin Collins, Co-Director Pavee Point and member of the Advisory Committee for the Council of Europe Framework Convention on National Minorities said: “From my work on the Advisory […]
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Month: February 2022
In November 2021 Ireland’s human rights situation was peer reviewed by the United Nations Member States during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Ireland. Ireland has now considered all of the recommendations issued during the Review, and in its response has accepted 221 recommendations and noted 33 recommendations. Our Coalition of Traveller and Roma organisations […]
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Travellers and Roma were part of a handover of 15,000 signatures to Justice Minister Helen McEntee today calling for effective hate crime laws to be introduced as soon as possible. In the week when hate speech against Roma and Roma genocide during the holocaust was heavily criticised, Pavee Point’s Roma Programme Worker Vanessa Paszkowska spoke […]
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Our deepest sympathies on the sad and untimely death of our Co Director, Ronnie Fay go to her partner Philip, her children Jonathan, Veronica and Patrick, her brother and sisters, including our much appreciated colleague Oonagh, and extended family members. On 3rd of February we said our final good bye to Ronnie Fay. May she rest […]
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