LASC Conference
The Latin American Solidarity Centre in Dublin opened its Latin America week with a Round Table exchange of experience of oppression and discrimination between indigenous Latin American speakers and activists from Traveller groups in Ireland.
Some 50 people took part in the workshops. Speakers from Mexico and from the Sierra in Peru told of their work with the campesinos in health, education, language and culture, to find startling and disturbing parallel discrimination recounted by travellers in Ireland.
It was hard for people from Latin America to believe this existed here in Ireland. It was equally important for Travellers to find that, on the global scale, they are far from alone in suffering the discrimination in health, in education, and in the exclusion of their culture and nomadic life from the social `norm'.
There was a great excitement in the conference at the success of this exchange, and a deep awareness of the long hard work of development to build awareness of discrimination and the confidence and strength to confront it, to demand equality.
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