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Category: Press Releases
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: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The NWCI welcomes the tabling of legislation on abortion to give effect to the X case in the Dail this evening by Clare Daly TD by way of the Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life...
Published: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
MEMBERS OF the Oireachtas will be invited to discuss issues related to abortion at an event organised by the National Women's Council of Ireland in Leinster House this afternoon.A spokeswoman for the council said the politicians would be able...
Women forced to have an abortion abroad because their unborn baby had abnormalities will tell politicians today that the law is cruel, unfair, and needs to change.Four women have gone public on their situation to highlight what they believe...
Passing the Social Welfare Bill in its current format will push more one-parent families into poverty. OPEN, Barnardos and the National Women's Council of Ireland have expressed serious concerns that proposed changes to the One Parent Family Payment in the...
Published: Monday, April 16, 2012
THE PHOTOGRAPH OF the four calm, young women on this page tells us little of what had gone before. They were tired and under stress. Three had been in tears. One had taken a 5am train from the south into...
Published: Sunday, April 15, 2012
Brussels, 16 April 2012 - A new partnership between the EU and UN Women set up to strengthen cooperation between the two organizations on their work on empowering women and gender equality, was today signed by High Representative for Foreign Affairs and...
Published: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Saturday April 28th Liberty HallA one day school providing an opportunity to discuss human rights approaches to achieve the fundamental freedoms and entitlements that contribute to thedevelopment of a Good Society. Senator Ivana Bacik Law Lecturer/Barrister Donncha O'ConnellCommunity Activist...
Date : Monday, April 30th 2012Time : 9:45 am to 3:45 pm, registration from 9:00amVenue : Longford Women's Link, Willow House, Ardnacassa Avenue, LongfordLunch will be provided on the dayConference noteThe aim of this event is simple, to use the experience, information and resources we...
Please see below a letter regarding the closure of Banulacht. The NWCI would like to express our shock and regret at the closure of Banulacht which represents a huge loss to the women's sector. It is a disgrace that the...
1. Aim of the Project- To identify gender equality issues for women in the social welfare system who will be activated under the new Single Age Working Payment (SWAP) and the new National Employment and Entitlements Service (NEES) under the Department...
OPEN, Barnardos and the National Women's Council of Ireland have expressed serious concern at proposals to change the One Parent Family Payment (OPFP) outlined in the Social Welfare Bill, published today. The three organisations said that measures in the Bill...
Lone parents are being attacked out of the blue and new social welfare rules which will see the one-parent family payment paid only up to the age of seven will be "opposed vehemently", campaign groups say.By 2015, all lone parents...
Published: Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Press Release OPEN, Barnardos and the National Women's Council of Ireland have expressed serious concern at proposals to change the One Parent Family Payment (OPFP) outlined in the Social Welfare Bill, published today. The three organisations said that measures in...
Published: Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Dozens of new organisations are springing up around the UK, campaigning on issues from lads' mags to benefit cuts.It was the lads' mags - with semi-naked women in suggestive poses on their covers - being sold at eye level...
Published: Tuesday, April 03, 2012
LISTENING TO any of the Republic's major current affairs radio programmes, one could be forgiven for thinking that women, by and large, are not interested in the news or have nothing interesting to say on the serious topics of our...
Local woman Catherine Cooke, Co-ordinator of Foyle Women's Information Network, has recently returned from Vienna in Austria, where she was invited to speak on a global platform on the role of Northern Irish Women. The trip highlighted how the empowerment...
04 April 2012The NWCI welcomes the move by the Council of Europe to question the Irish government on what interim measures it has in place to respond to women with life threatening pregnancies, while the government ponders over the implementation the 2010...
Published: Monday, April 02, 2012
IRELAND HAS CLIMBED two places in the World Economic Forum's gender equality league table to sixth place.The Global Gender Gap Report measures equality in the areas of politics, education, employment and health.Ireland still ranks behind Iceland, Norway, Finland,...
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