The
National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism
(NCCRI) was established in 1998 and is an independent expert body,
primarily funded by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law
Reform, focusing on racism and interculturalism. This monthly
e-bulletin is designed to provide relevant and up to date information
in the areas of anti-racism and interculturalism. If you have
information about events, campaigns, initiatives or publications etc
related to racism and interculturalism in Ireland, we would like to
hear from you. Please note that the email bulletin goes out the
second week of each month. To send information or to
subscribe/unsubscribe to this email bulletin, please send email to
jacqueline@nccri.ie.
The NCCRI have moved.
The
NCCRI have moved to Third Floor, Jervis House, Jervis Street, Dublin
1. info@nccri.ie.
Phone and fax changes will be available very soon on our website at
www.nccri.ie
Contents
1. Policy
and Legislative Updates
-
Government
Legislative Programme
-
National
Action Plan Against Racism
- New
Residency Requirements for Parents of Irish Born Children
-
Revised
arrangements for non-EEA students in Ireland
-
Ireland’s
Report to CERD
-
Discrimination
in the Workplace
-
Review of
the Housing (Traveller) Accommodation Act 1998
-
An Garda
Siochana Policing Plan 2005
-
CSO Report
-
EU
Developments
-
EU
Framework Decision on Racism may be Revived
2. Upcoming funding deadlines
-
EU Funding
-
Development
Education Grants Scheme 2005
-
2005
Sports Capital Programme
-
Vodafone
Ireland Foundation Grant Fund Applications
-
Ireland
Funds 2005
-
Grants
for Community Playgroups
- National
Action Plan Against Racism Grants Scheme for Anti-Racism
Initiatives
- Dormant
Accounts
3. Events and initiatives
-
International
Day Against Racism March 21 2005
-
Providing
public services to minority ethnic groups
-
Forthcoming
NCCRI / ADM Conference in 2005
-
Diversity
At Work Network Handbook for Employers
-
Events at
the Chester Beatty Library
-
Holocaust
Memorial Day
-
Cork 2004:
European Capital of Culture
-
Islamic
Cultural Week in Galway
-
Double
Vision: Liminal Irish Identities Conference
-
Metro
Eireann Media and Multicultural Awards (MAMA) 2005
-
Course
exploring Racism UCD / TCD Dept of Sociology
-
MPhil in
Ethnic and Racial Studies Seminar Programme 2005
-
Giving a
Voice to Immigrants in Poverty
4. Publications and Resources
Government Legislative Programme
The
Dail resumes on 26 January 2005. The government legislative schedule
for spring 2005 can be accessed at
http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/index.asp?locID=186&docID=-1
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Irish
Nationality and Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2004
The President signed the Irish Nationality and
Citizenship Amendment Act 2004 into law in December. To view the
changes to the entitlement of children born on the island of Ireland
on or after 1 January 2005 to Irish citizenship, see www.justice.ie
or the change in regulations of the Passport Office
www.passport.ie
National Action Plan Against Racism
The
National Action Plan Against Racism will be launched on the 27th
of January 2005 by the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Copies of the Plan
will be available soon on the Department of Justice website on
www.justice.ie
or Tel. 01-479 0273.
New
Residency Requirements for Parents of Irish Born Children
The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform announced in
December 2004 that it plans to regularize the position of
non-national parents of Irish born children who are seeking
residency in the State. An estimated 17,000 parents will be allowed
to make fresh applications in January. Residency will be granted to
those who can show they have been resident in the State since the
birth of their child, have not been involved in any criminal
activity and are willing to commit themselves to becoming
economically viable. Applicants who can prove their identity, show
they have not left the State since the birth of their child and are
of good character will receive favourable consideration.
Successful applicants will be required to co-operate with the
authorities and make efforts to become self-sufficient over a period
of up to five years before being granted permanent residency.
However they will not be entitled to family reunification.
Successful applicants will be able to apply for citizenship after
five years in line with current naturalization laws as revised
recently by the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004.
Details of the procedure and application forms are available now
from the Department’s website at www.justice.ie
and the closing date is the end of March 2005. For more information
see www.justice.ie
or from the Irish Born Child Unit, Department of Justice, Equality
and Law Reform, P.O. Box 10003, Dublin 2.
Revised arrangements for non-EEA
students in Ireland
In accordance with the recommendations of the report on the
Internationalisation of Irish Education Services recently published
by the Department of Education and Science, the Department of
Justice, Equality and Law Reform, in conjunction with the Department
of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, announced on the 22 December
the introduction of new arrangements for access to employment by
non-EEA national students in Ireland.
From 18 April 2005 new students granted permission to remain in
the State on registering with the Garda National Immigration Bureau
will not be permitted access to employment unless they are attending
a full-time course of at least one year’s duration leading to
a qualification recognized by the Minister for Education and
Science. Those permitted access to employment may enter casual
employment only (defined as up to 20 hours part time work per week
or full-time during normal vacation periods). Access to employment
is not permitted to other students. Students attending a foundation
/ preparatory course prior to enrolment on such a full-time course
will not be permitted access to employment until they have commenced
the full-time course. The entitlement to take up employment will
cease upon the expiry of permission to remain as a student. Having
been in casual employment will not, in itself, entitle a person to
further permission to remain.
These new arrangements will not affect students who have current
permission to remain at 18 April 2005. From the 1 January 2005
students on courses other than full-time courses of at least one
years duration leading to a recognized qualification recognized by
the Minister for Education and Science will be allowed to renew
their permission to remain only where the total period of
permissions granted and sought does not exceed 18 months. In the
case of students already having permission to remain before that
date, the period of 18 months will be calculated from 1 January
2005.
Ireland’s
Report to CERD
Ireland’s
report is due to be examined in the 66th session (1st
and 2nd of March 2005) before the Committee of the
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
The secretary of the CERD Committee has advised the NCCRI that NGOs
interested in submitting a shadow/alternative report should do so
well in advance, preferably by the 14 January. 40 copies of the
report are required. If groups did not meet the 14 January deadline,
it is advisable to send 20 copies one week prior to the meeting
(i.e. 14 February).
Copies
of Ireland’s first report to CERD can be obtained from the
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. Tel. 01-479 0273 or
online at www.justice.ie.
Please refer to Publications in this email bulletin for a list of
‘shadow’ reports and submissions from NGOs and other
bodies already submitted to the CERD Committee.
Fall in Number of Asylum
Applications
The number of asylum applications fell significantly in 2004 while
the number of people recognized as refugees remained steady. While
7,900 asylum applications were lodged in 2003, this fell to 4,766 in
2004, according to recent figures of the Office of the Refugee
Applications Commissioner (ORAC). 1,132 people were granted refugee
status in 2004 compared with 1,174 in 2003 www.orac.ie
Discrimination in the Workplace
Race-related discrimination in the workplace emerged as the single
biggest ground for people making complaints to the Equality
Authority. By the end of November the vast majority of cases being
processed under the Employment Equality Act were race related. Out
of 208 cases being brought under the Act, a total of 88 or 42.3%
were complaints under the race factor. The Equality Authority said
that out of the 88 cases to date, a total of 45 relate to working
conditions. For more information contact the Equality Authority
www.equality.ie
Review of the Housing (Traveller)
Accommodation Act 1998
The National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee (NTAC)
has carried out a review of the operation of the Housing (Traveller)
Accommodation Act 1998. Their report examines how successful local
authorities have been in delivering accommodation to Travellers over
the last five years. Department of the Environment figures quoted in
the report reveal that 788 Traveller families are still living by
the side of the road, down from over 1,200 in 1999.
Pavee Point Travellers Centre have indicated that there is a
total of 1,463 families, 22% of the total number of Travellers still
living without permanent quality accommodation five years after the
adoption of the local Traveller accommodation programmes. Traveller
organizations have called on the Government again to establish a
national Traveller accommodation agency to take responsibility for
Traveller accommodation out of local authorities remit, something
that the NTAC report has recommended although the Minister of State
for Housing, Mr. Noel Ahern has indicated that this was not
required. To view the report see……………
CSO Report
The Central Statistics Office published its Population and Labour
Force projections in December. It estimated that Ireland will need
30,000 immigrants a year to the period to 2036 if economic growth is
to be maintained. It forecasts that the economy will need 45,000
immigrant workers every year for the next 12 years to sustain
economic growth. The Population and Labour Force Projections –
to 2030 on population and 2016 on labour force – say that the
growth cannot be maintained at 3-5 per cent a year only on an
indigenous workforce. For a copy of the report see www.cso.ie.
An ESRI report (winter bulletin) and the FAS annual market review
said it expects the surge in employment to continue into 2005.
There were approximately 34,000 work permits issued in 2004. To
view statistics relating to work permits see
www.entemp.ie/labour/workpermits/statistics.htm
An Garda
Siochana Policing Plan 2005
An
Garda Siochana have recently published their Policing Plan 2005. The
2005 Plan represents a significant development on previous years in
that Ethnic and Cultural Diversity has been identified as one of the
six strategic goals. It includes a list of 12 commitments, as well
as 11 performance indicators, many of which reflect the
recommendations which were made in the NCCRI submission to the
policing plan last November. A copy of the Plan is available from
www.garda.ie.
European
Developments
Council of
Europe Recommendation on Travellers
The
Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on Dec 1st
adopted Recommendation (2004) 14 to Member States on the movement
and encampment of Travellers in Europe. The Irish government did
enter some late reservations. Recommendations such as this are not
legally binding but do have some moral authority. For a copy of the
recommendation see www.coe.int
Managing
Migration
The European Commission have adopted
a Green Paper on an EU Approach to Managing Economic Migration. This
is a public consultation as the Commission believes that
co-ordination is needed and stakeholders are asked to say whether
they agree that an EU wide initiative is a good idea and if so what
form it will take. Groups are invited to respond by April 2005. For
a copy of the Green Paper see……………
Qualified Majority Voting and Co-decision on Asylum
A Decision was
adopted on 22 December extending qualified majority voting and
co-decision to most EC immigration and asylum law. This will take
effect from 1 January 2005.
Trafficking in Human Beings
The Experts Group on Trafficking in Human Beings has reported to
the Commission on ways of strengthening EU action in this area. On
the basis of the report, the Commission will issue a Communication
in 2005 which will aim to develop an EU plan for common standards,
best practices and mechanisms to prevent and combat trafficking in
human beings. The EU law in this area consists of Council Framework
Decision of 19 July 2002 on combating trafficking in human beings,
requiring member states to make trafficking in human beings a
criminal offence by August 2004. Council Framework Decision of 22
December 2002 on combating the sexual exploitation of children and
child pornography and Directive of 29 April 2004 on temporary
residence permits for trafficked victims who co-operate with
competent authorities. For more information see http://europa.eu.int
Third Country Nationals
Council Directive 2004/114/EC of 13
December 2004 on the conditions of admission of third country
national for the purposes of studies, pupil exchange, unenumerated
training or voluntary service has been published in OJ L373 23
December 2004.
European Refugee Fund
The
Justice and Home Affairs Council agreed a Decision on 2 December
2004 renewing the European Refugee Fund for the period 2005-2010.
The Fund supports actions for helping third country nationals or
stateless persons as regards reception conditions and asylum
procedures, integration of people whose stay in the member state is
of a lasting and stable nature and voluntary return of people. The
sum allocated for the implementation of the programme for the first
two years is EUR 114 million. Future annual appropriations will be
authorised by the budget authority but the Commission proposal
envisages a total amount of EUR 604 million over the next six years.
For more information see www.ecre.org
Programme for Active Citizenship
The
Commission is conducting an online consultation concerning the
future Community Action Programme to promote active citizenship. The
current action programme ends in 2006 and they are inviting views on
the new programme which will start in 2007. The consultation
questionnaire and background documents are available at
http://europa.eu.int/your
voice/consultations/index_en.htm.
The consultation process ends on 15 February 2005.
Presidency of the European Union
In
a press release of 17 December the Dutch presidency assesses its own
achievements during July to December 2004. Agreement has been
reached on the Hague Programme which lays down the lines of strategy
for making the Union more secure over the next five years. Priority
will be given to the fight against terrorism but the programme will
also cover other important themes such as exchange of information,
closer co-operation in the field of justice and co-operation in the
field of civil law. Efforts will also be made to achieve a common
asylum system by 2010, illegal immigration will be tackled and a
European agency will be set up to increase the security of the EU
external borders. The press release and speeches are available on
www.euro2004.nl
Luxembourg’s
priorities for its presidency of the European Union during the first
six months of 2005 will include reviewing the Lisbon process. In the
area of justice and home affairs, great importance is to be attached
to the external dimension and return policy with the Presidency
expecting the Commission to produce a proposal for legislation on
minimum standards for return. A note on the Presidency’s
priorities is available on the Luxembourg government website on
www.agenceurope.be
or www.gouvernement.lu
EU Framework Decision on Racism may be Revived
It
was reported in the national dailies on the 18 of January that
negotiations on EU legislation against racism and xenophobia are to
be revived during the Luxembourg Presidency. This decision to put
the issue back on the political agenda follows calls by senior
German politicians for a European wide ban on Nazi symbols. There
have been calls for it to be addressed at the next meeting of EU
justice and home affairs meeting on January 27th and
28th.
EU-Funding
Community Action Programme in
the field of Education SOCRATES
http://www.enar-eu.org/en/funding/calls.shtml
Transnational co-operation and exchange projects to combat
social exclusion
http://www.enar-eu.org/en/funding/calls.shtml
EIDHR: Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Promoting the Rights
of Minorities
This
call for proposals covers support for promoting the rights of
minorities and combating racism and xenophobia. Deadline for receipt
of applications is 12 April 2005, 16.00 Brussels time. For
more information see http://www.enar-eu.org/en/funding/calls.shtml
AENEAS Programme
The
general objective of the AENEAS programme is to provide specific and
complementary financial and technical assistance to third countries
in support of their efforts to ensure more effective management of
all aspects of migration flows. Deadline for receipt of applications
is 30 March 2005 16.00 Brussels time. For further information
see http://www.enar-eu.org/en/funding/calls.shtml
Initiatives to Promote Gender Equality Between Women and Men
EU
funding is available to support activities in the field of gender
equality between men and women including activities concerning
migrant women. Activities should be in the field of awareness
raising through studies, campaigns and or seminars, dissemination of
information, best practices and new knowledge, capacity building
through co-operation, networking and training. Deadline is 01
February 2005.
2005
Sports Capital Programme
The Minister for Arts,
Sport and Tourism, John O'Donoghue TD, has announced the National
Lottery funded Sports Capital Programme in respect of the round of
grants for the year 2005.
Proposals for the development of sport
and recreational sport facilities from sports organisations, clubs
and community groups etc. will be considered for funding under the
Programme with special priority being given to the development of
facilities in disadvantaged areas. Application forms, as well as
Guidelines, Terms and Conditions, will be available at the
Department's Website on www.dast.gov.ie
or by email request to sportsunit1@dast.gov.ie
or from Sports Capital Unit, Department of Arts, Sport and
Tourism, Frederick Buildings, South Frederick Street, Dublin 2.
Telephone No. (01) 631 3914 / 3918 / 3930 / 3942 LoCall 1890383000.
Please note that the closing date for receipt of completed
application form is 5pm on Friday 4th February 2005.
Vodafone
Ireland Foundation Grant Fund Applications
VIF
funds select projects of registered Irish charities with strong
community linkages. The social investment programme will focus
primarily on removing barriers that prevent people from
participating fully in society. Closing dates: February 4th
2005 at 5pm. www.vodafone.ie
Ireland
Funds 2005
The
Ireland Funds invite applications for project funding in the areas
of Arts and Culture, Community Development, Education and Peace and
Reconciliation. Deadline for applications is 31 January 2005.
For more information www.irlfunds.org
Grants
for Community Playgroups
Grants
for Community Playgroups and Parent and Toddler Groups is provided
by Katherine Howard Foundation with additional co-funding from the
Community Foundation for Ireland. Forms for this scheme are
available in January. Closing date is 18 February 2005. For
more information Tel. 01-453 1861 or email at info@khf.ie
.
Community Foundation for Ireland
Community
Foundation for Ireland invites applications from community and
voluntary groups to their grant scheme. Grants are given twice a
year ranging from 500 to 1,000 and possibly 5,000. The CFI
especially welcome applicants from small grassroots organisations
who are tackling isolation and promoting diversity and have a major
impact on their local communities. Groups they are interested in
assisting are carers, older people, people leaving institutions,
sexual minorities and minority ethnic groups. For further
information see www.communityfoundation.ie
or admin@foundation.ie.
Closing date for receipt of applications is 30 March and 30
September 2005.
National
Action Plan Against Racism Grants Scheme for Anti-Racism
Initiatives
The Department of Justice, Equality
and Law Reform have announced the recipients of the grant scheme
announced in October to enable organisations to raise awareness
about racism and highlight cultural diversity in Ireland. See
www.justice.ie
for a list of organisations. 44 grants were awarded under the
scheme. The NCCRI has advocated the need for greater funding to be
made available for grants under the National Action Plan Against
Racism.
Dormant Accounts
Projects
to help people in disadvantaged communities have received grant
funding of over 12m from monies left unclaimed in dormant accounts.
The Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursements Board announced that 102
projects received grants ranging from 3,000 to nearly 880,000. The
current value of the Dormant Accounts is almost 174 million. Since
the fund was set up in May 2003 around 42 million has been
allocated. The Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursements Board has a 60
million budget for 2004 and 2005 which will be allocated early this
year. For more information see www.dormantaccounts.ie
International Day Against Racism March 21 2005
For
the past three years the NCCRI, Equality Commission for Northern
Ireland and the KNOW RACISM Campaign have co-ordinated activities
linked to March 21st. All over Ireland, North and
South, groups organise events to mark and celebrate March 21st
and European Week Against Racism which will occur from March 14 to
March 21 2005.
The
theme for 2005 is Protection: effective protection and redress
against racism, North and South including a focus on discrimination,
assaults, threatening behaviour and incitement to hatred. An event
can take place anytime around March 21st. For further
information and to publicise your event in the next issue of
Spectrum please contact Jacqueline Healy, NCCRI at Tel. 01-8588000
or log onto www.nccri.ie.
Please note that details of events need to be forwarded to the NCCRI
by Friday February 4th 2005.
Providing
public services to minority ethnic groups
This
new NCCRI project will examine how public authorities provide
services for ethnic and immigrant groups within the prescribed legal
framework in three jurisdictions: Northern Ireland, the Republic of
Ireland and Scotland. By analyzing the challenges which diversity
presents to public service providers, the project will explore models
for responding to the needs of longstanding
migrant and minority communities, refugees and asylum-seekers and
migrant workers. The project will draw on
experiences across a range of sectors including: health, social
services, education, employment, housing, interpreting, information
and advice, and policing.
The
primary focus will be to identify how Northern Ireland public
authorities can learn from experience within Northern Ireland and
from their nearest neighbours: Republic of Ireland and Scotland.
During this 18 month project there will be a major
international conference in March 2006 and the final report is
expected to be available in August 2006.
This
study, commissioned by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy
First Minister (Northern Ireland) from the Centre for Cross Border
Studies, is being carried out by the National Consultative Committee
on Racism and Interculturalism (Dublin), the Institute for Conflict
Research (Belfast), and Organization and Social Development
Consultants Ltd (Edinburgh). Further information is available from:
NCCRI, 3rd Floor Jervis House, Jervis St, Dublin 1,
Ireland, email: anna@nccri.ie.
NCCRI
/ ADM Conference March 15 2005
The NCCRI and Area Development Management Ltd. in association
with relevant government departments aim to host a conference in
Dublin on the 15 of March 2005. The aim of the conference is to
develop and enhance an intercultural and anti-racism dimension into
local and community development, in the context of the National
Action Plan Against Racism (NPAR). Further information on the
conference will be available on www.nccri.ie
or contact Jennifer Wallace, Community Development Officer on Tel.
01-8588000.
Diversity At Work
Network Handbook for Employers
The Diversity At Work Network, a joint initiative by the Chambers of
Commerce of Ireland (CCI), the Institute of Technology
Blanchardstown and the NCCRI will publish soon a handbook for
employers entitled Managing Diversity in the Workplace. The aim of
this handbook is to provide practical guidance for those recruiting
and employing migrant workers. The handbook covers issues related to
recruitment, employment permits and employment rights, managing a
diverse workforce and developing an intercultural workplace policy.
The handbook will be launched in mid February.
Events
at the Chester Beatty Library
The Chester Beatty
Library is hosting a special lunchtime lecture series in association
with the Islamic Cultural Centre on the personal experiences of
being a Muslim in Ireland. On January 27th at 1.10pm,
Ihab Hassan will discuss being a Muslim between Egypt and Ireland
and on the 3rd of February Summayah Kenna from the
Islamic Cultural Centre will discuss life with the family and being
a Muslim. See www.cbl.ie
There
is also the Chinese Corner with the Asian Institute, a coffee and
chat session for the Chinese community and general public every
month. For further details contact the Chester Beatty Library on
Tel. 01-407 0750 or www.cbl.ie
or www.asianinstitute.com
Holocaust
Memorial Day
To
celebrate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz which occurs on 27th of January, the Holocaust
Memorial Day will take place on January 30th 2005.
Cork
2004: European Capital of Culture
Part
of the motivation behind the European Capital of Culture is to
promote understanding between nations. Some of the exhibitions of
Cork 2005 take the opportunity to introduce us to the new ethnic
groups in Ireland. At the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork from January
7th, an exhibition of photography entitled Emigrance
introduces us to the private worlds of emigrants who have come to
Europe to make a new home. See dwww.triskelart.com
For
further information on the Cork Capital of Culture events see
www.cork2005.ie
Islamic Cultural Week in Galway
An
Islamic cultural week is being organised at the National University
of Ireland Galway by the Galway Islamic Society. The cultural week
will take place from the 25 to the 28 January 2005 and will include
speakers Azzam Tamimi from London, Shabir Ali from Canada and
speakers from the Clonskeagh mosque in Dublin. For more information
see the website of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies in
the UK and Ireland www.fosis.org.uk
Double Vision: Irish Identities Conference
This
interdisciplinary conference seeks to investigate the identity
formation of marginal voices in Ireland. Focusing on the ‘double
vision’ of immigrants and minority groups in their interaction
with ‘mainstream’ narratives, the conference engages
with literary, historical and social perspectives of displacement
and integration. It will take place on the 18th to the
20th of March 2005 at University College Dublin. There
will be readings from Ursula Rani Sarma and Hugo Hamilton and
speakers include Declan Kiberd, School of English, UCD, Colin
Graham, Department of English, NUI Maynooth and Maureen Reddy,
English and Women’s Studies, Rhode Island College. For more
information and a final list of speakers visit the website
www.doublevisionconference.com
after 1st of February 2005.
Metro Eireann Media and Multicultural Awards (MAMA)
2005
The Metro Eireann Media and Multicultural
Awards (MAMA) 2005 in association with RTE invite entries to the
fourth annual awards ceremony which will be held in May 2005. The
MAMA Awards recognise and celebrate outstanding contributions of
individuals and groups to creating cross-cultural understanding and
co-operation in Ireland. The Awards also recognise and celebrate
initiatives that promote and celebrate cultural diversity in
Ireland. Closing date for receipt of entries is 28 February 2005.
For further information please contact Chinedu Onyejelem at Tel.
01-869 0670 or email awards@metroeireann.com.
Entry forms can be downloaded from www.metroeireann.com/awards
Course exploring
Racism UCD / TCD Dept of Sociology
This ten week evening course will introduce participants to theories
of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’, locating ‘race’
within social, economic, political and idealogical relations and
situating ‘race’ and racism in relation to other
divisions such as class and gender and to emerging changes in Irish
society. Tuesday 6pm to 8pm in Room 3071, Arts Building, TCD, Dublin
2. The cost is euro 150. Course begins on Tuesday 25 January 2005
and ends on Tuesday 19 April 2005. For further details Tel. 01-608
2766.
MPhil in Ethnic and
Racial Studies Seminar Programme 2005
The seminars will take place in Trinity College
Dublin in Room 4050A from 1pm to 3pm. On Friday 28 January 2005
Maeve Foreman, UCD will speak about the experiences and perspectives
of minority ethnic groups accessing HIV services in Ireland and on
Friday 4th of February Professor Alice Hughes-Kersnowski
from UCD will talk on Literature and Identity: A Key to the Borders
of Memory. More information is available from Dr. Ronit Lentin on
Tel. 01-6082766 or rlentin@tcd.ie
Giving a Voice to
Immigrants in Poverty
The Immigrant Council of Ireland is developing a consultation
process for immigrants living in poverty. The Council is interested
in working with individual migrants, ethnic-led groups and
organisations dealing with social exclusion and poverty. It will
host seminars and meetings in 2005 to support discussion on
immigration. For more information on the consultation initiative
please contact Ailbhe Bennet on Tel. 01-674 0200.
NCCRI:
Response to the European Communication on a
Fundamental Human Rights Agency Available at
http://www.nccri.ie/policy-submissions.html#2004
NCCRI:
International Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: Comments on the Combined
First and Second Reports by Ireland. January 2005.
Available at www.nccri.ie
Migrant
Rights Centre Ireland: Private Spaces: A
Public Concern – The Experiences of Migrant Woman Employed in
the Private Home Available from MCRI at Tel. 01-8881355.
Maeve
O Brien: Making the Move: Students,
Teachers and Parents Perspectives of Transfer from First to Second
Level Schooling. Available from Marino Institute of
Education at Tel. 01-805 7700
Equality
Authority: New Guidelines on the Equality
legislation. Free information booklets on the Employment
Equality Acts and Equal Status Acts are available on www.equality.ie
or Lo Call 1890 245545.
An
Garda Siochana: Garda Policing Plan 2005.
www.garda.ie
Combat
Poverty Agency: Left Outside? An
Educational Resource on Poverty in Ireland. Tel. 01-602
6644 or email publications@cpa.ie
Irish
Immigrant Resource Centre (NASC): Cork
Newcomers Guide for Foreign Nationals and Immigrants.
Available in different languages from NASC at Tel or
www.knowracism.ie/resources/index.html
European
Commission: Green Paper on an EU Approach
to Managing Economic Migration. COM (2004) XXX
Traveller
Health Unit (Eastern Region): Caring for
Diversity: Improving Traveller Health in the South East. www.sehb.ie
National
Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee (NTACC): Review
of the Operation of the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998.
Available from Department of the Environment
www.environs.ie
Metro
Eireann: Ireland in 2005. Annual
magazine of Metro Eireann. www.metroeireann.com
Central
Statistics Office: Population and Labour
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Irish
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The
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www.familydiversity.ie
