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Published: Tuesday, November 26, 2024
National Women’s Council and Women’s Aid Federation NI launch new report examining the issue of domestic violence across the island 26 November Today (26 November) the National Women’s Council (NWC) and Women’s Aid...
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,...
Published: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Soroptimist International Dublin are holding a fundraising Late lunch in Howth Yacht Club, Howth on Sunday 22nd April .The proceeds will be in aid of Safe Ireland, the only national organisation for domestic violence services in Ireland www.safeireland.ie ...
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION has been banned in Ireland.A bill outlawing the practice was passed by the Seanad this afternoon having already gone through all the stages in the Dáil.As well as prohibiting the practice, the new legislation...
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meets every year for two weeks to review progress on implementation of the Fourth World Conference on Women's Beijing Platform for Action adopted in 1995. The theme of this year's review was ...
"DO YOU KNOW what it's like to represent a billion human beings every day you walk out of your house? To be looked at as the representative of an entire world religion?"A world religion?"Do you know what that's...
Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich, a feminist literary figure celebrated as much for deeply personal reflections on her own life as for sometimes-biting social commentary, has died at age 82, family members said on Wednesday.Rich, who received a galaxy of...
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