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Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Alliance of over 40 organisations reminds newly elected TDs of their election promises 18th December 2024 Under the slogan ‘All we want for Christmas is public childcare’, the campaign alliance, Together for Public, gathered outside Leinster House today (Wednesday, 18th...
Published: Thursday, August 18, 2011
THE ISLAMIC CULTURAL Centre of Ireland has welcomed the opportunity to debate the issue of banning the burqa in this country but the Department of Justice has said there are no proposals to do so.Responding to calls from the...
Published: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Vera Baird QC, Co-Director of Astraea: Gender Justice (Research and Education), has been looking at recent rape acquittals where the defence was 'sexsomnia'.A relatively new rape defence is that some men can be wholly without responsibility for sexual assaults...
Fancy putting your daughter off her food? Then buy her Maggie Goes on a Diet, a children's book aimed - according to Barnes & Noble, one of the many booksellers on whose website it is currently listed - at six-...
Published: Tuesday, August 16, 2011
It will take 70 years to achieve parity between men and women in the country's top jobs, according to a report released today by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.The survey Sex and Power 2011, dubbed a "call to arms" by...
Equality and Human Rights Commission finds advance towards equality is tortuously slow and subject to frequent reverses.More than 5,400 women are missing from Britain's 26,000 most powerful posts, according to a new report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.The...
UK Feminista's 'suffragette school' gave budding activists the tools they need to build a fairer world.School's out for 500 activists as they graduated yesterday from UK Feminista's second summer school. With interest in feminism sparking across the UK, this weekend's ...
Published: Monday, August 15, 2011
CALLS to a rape crisis helpline rose by almost a fifth last year as it was forced to cut its budget by 20%.Galway Rape Crisis Centre (GRCC) heard from 621 people in 2010, up from 518 the previous year, many who have waited...
Published: Sunday, August 14, 2011
Two-day UK Feminista event aims to mobilise activists and school them in art of campaigning and direct action.After just one day of classes at her summer school of choice, Emily Birkenshaw had already learned a crucial lesson: how to ...
Published: Thursday, August 11, 2011
The Older Women's Network is a national network linking older women (55+) and older women's groups together to give a voice to older women in the decision and policy making process. OWN is now offering an opportunity to gain invaluable experience...
The Mandate Trade Union is appointing a Lead Organiser and two other Organisers to work with their team.Click here for the details of the posts. The closing date for applications is 26th August, 2011.
When was Childminding Ireland, the National Childminding Association of Ireland, set up?Childminding Ireland was set up 1985 and continues to provide guidance, advice and group insurance to home-based Childminders and Nannies and also helps parents to find a local Childminding...
This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to contribute to and engage with the work of Ruhama. They will be developing and providing a range of innovative supports and systems to support women wishing to engage in Ruhama's...
Published: Monday, August 08, 2011
Ireland's leading national organistaion against domestic violence, Women's Aid, has welcomed the recent amendments to the Domestic Violence Act. These amendments, which have been long-campaigned for, means that more people can be protected by the law, regardless of their cohabitation...
Fine Gael deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor was recently caught up in a Dáil row after being the subject of sexist remarks by Independent TD Mick Wallace. Writing for TheJournal.ie, she argues that a better balance of the sexes...
I've been reading about the resurgence in feminism since I picked up my first copy of The Women's Room by Marilyn FrenchIf you haven't already, you little scamp, go at once, find this and read it - Right. Now.Those...
Published: Thursday, August 04, 2011
Over 120,000 votes were cast in the United Nations contest aimed at finding the best ad to promote awareness about the battle to defeat gender-based violence. The winning entry "Say no to violence" was created by Gjoke Gojani.More than 2,700 entries...
LGBT Noise would like to announce the March for Marriage 2011.Civil Partnership is NOT equality. We ask you, your friends, your family and your co-workers to MARCH FOR MARRIAGE in Dublin on Sunday 14th August 2011.Click here for more details.
Six years after it was commissioned in a blaze of publicity, a sculpture honouring the contribution female factory workers made to this city - is gathering dust in storage, where it is likely to remain for at least a further 18...
Irish diplomat Maeve Collins has been named the new Deputy Head of the European Union's delegation in Japan.She will now be the number two in the group that represents European economic and political interests in one of the Union's...
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