The Equality Authority and the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) today both made formal presentations to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality calling on the State to recognise Travellers as an ethnic minority. Both organisations have recommended to Government in the past to recognise Travellers as an ethnic group. It has been … Continue reading IHRC and Equality Authority call for recognition of Traveller Ethnicity by the State in presentations to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality