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Register Now - Report Launch Event ''Barriers to Justice for Irish Travellers Seeking to Challenge Discrimination'' 29th April 2022
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The Traveller Equality & Justice Project, Centre for Criminal Justice & Human Rights, School of Law, UCC is delighted to invite you to the launch of our report: 'Barriers to Justice for Irish Travellers Seeking to Challenge Discrimination: Mapping Traveller 'Rediscrimination' within the Equality System in Ireland.'
The report, which highlights recent data collected by the Cork Traveller Women’s Network and the Traveller Equality and Justice Project, explores the manner in which Travellers seeking to challenge discrimination are excluded from the legal system.
09:3- 12:30, 29th April 2022
G01 BHSC, University College Cork.
The report, which highlights recent data collected by the Cork Traveller Women’s Network and the Traveller Equality and Justice Project, explores the manner in which Travellers seeking to challenge discrimination are excluded from the legal system.
The event will be opened on Friday 29th April by Senator Eileen Flynn, with the report formally launched by Mr. Michael O’Flaherty, Director of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.
A panel discussion will follow which addresses the barriers to justice experienced by Travellers within the equality system. Panelists will include:
- Samantha Morgan-Williams, Traveller Equality & Justice Project (report author).
- Eilis Barry, CEO of the Free Legal Advice Centre
- Brigid Carmody, Cork Traveller Women’s Network.
- Anne-Marie Quilligan, Traveller Equality & Justice Project, Advisory Board
Report Overview:
This report is based on research carried out in collaboration with a group of Traveller women who were asked a number of questions about the current equality framework in Ireland and options for redress. The majority surveyed reported a deep-distrust and perceived ‘exclusion’ from the legal system. In identifying the barriers preventing access to justice, the women noted that core issues involved access to legal representation, costs, and prohibitive barriers in taking cases, alongside unclear avenues to redress.
Presenting the findings of these workshops this report maps the weaknesses of the current equality system and its inaccessibility for socially marginalised groups. It is argued throughout that these failings, and the testimony of those surveyed, clearly indicate that the current system is blocking Travellers from accessing justice.
In detailing the manner in which the system not only fails to provide redress for Travellers, but actually creates the barriers preventing Travellers from challenging inequality, this report draws attention to the need for significant reform within both the equality and legal aid systems.
Launching the report, the TEJP and our Traveller Community group partners seek to platform the adverse experiences of Travellers within the equality system. This launch is especially timely, given the current reform of the equality framework being considered by Minister Roderic O’Gorman.
Refreshments to follow the event.
Registration and further details at:
Report kindly supported by the Irish Research Council New Foundations Award #LoveIrishResearch
