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Pavee Point calls on Minister for Children, Frances Fitzgerald TD to establish an independent review of the actions of state authorities in respect of the removal of Roma children from their families in recent days
Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre Press Statement 23 October 2013 Pavee Point is disturbed that there have been two recent cases of young Roma children being removed from their families as a matter of first resort and not as a matter of last resort that would...
ITM Statement in Response to Roma Children Taken into Care
Irish Traveller Movement Press Statement October 23rd 2013 The worrying and apparently regressive procedures which formed the Gardai's action to take two Roma children from their families in Dublin and Athlone give rise to concerns over abuse of Garda powers and the...
Pavee Point response to child protection case in Tallaght
Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre Press Statement October 22nd 2013 In response to the case of the removal of a child from a Roma family in Tallaght in the early hours of this morning we believe that this case should be dealt with according to standard HSE/Garda...
INAR’s submission to the Oireachtas on Integration, Multiculturalism and Combating Racism
Executive Summary INAR is a national network of NGOs and community organisations which works at both a National and European level to combat racism. It uses iReport.ie and a range of other measures and instruments to monitor racism, influence debate and make policy...
Why a reporting tool like iReport is so important
"I am a white South African mother. I went to the Garda station for my first Irish passport application. (Very Proud!). There was a Black Somali family in the queue. The Garda was totally patronizing!!!! When they asked for an official stamp on their documents, he...
Keeping the Melting Pot Aboil
A slip of the tongue gets Tom McCarthy thinking – just how far removed are we from the fabled ‘land of a thousand welcomes?’ By Tom McCarthy Source: The Cork Independent “She’s lucky to be American. If she was Romanian, well… it wouldn’t do her any favours let’s...