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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: Tuesday, September 27, 2022
The National Women’s Council welcomes dedicated women’s health budget as part of Budget 2023 In response to today’s health Budget announcement, the National Women’s Council (NWC) strongly welcomed the extension of the free...
Published: Wednesday, September 21, 2022
The National Women’s Council today publishes the findings of a collaborative study between NWC and UCD’s Sexual Exploitation Research Programme (SERP) which explores attitudes to the sexual exploitation of women and girls in the commercial sex...
Published: Wednesday, September 14, 2022
The National Women's Council (NWC) today -14 September- launches a toolkit for local authorities on how to encourage women into local government and support them to stay. The toolkit will be launched by Minister of State for Planning...
Published: Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Women’s Council welcomes free contraception; calls for extension of scheme Universal free contraception is due to be rolled out for 17-25 year-old women from tomorrow Press Release 13 September 2022 The National Women’s...
Published: Thursday, September 08, 2022
Women from across the island urge British and Irish governments to centre women’s voices in peacebuilding Taoiseach Micheál Martin to launch the report of the NWC All-Island Women’s Forum Press Release EMBARGO TO 00:01 on 8...
Published: Tuesday, August 02, 2022
Press Release, 2 August 2022 Ahead of the launch of its Pre-Budget Submission for Budget 2023, the National Women’s Council (NWC) called on the Government to tackle the cost of living crisis for women through investment in public services...
Published: Tuesday, July 12, 2022
The National Women’s Council (NWC) today (12 July 2022) strongly welcomed the publication of the Unplanned Pregnancy Support and Abortion Care (UnPAC) Study which will form an integral part of the ongoing review of the operation of the (Termination of...
Published: Thursday, July 07, 2022
National Women’s Council calls on Government to support Deputy Higgins’ Private Members’ Bill on Board Gender Quotas For Immediate release – Thursday 7th July 2022 Today (July 7th) the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWC)...
Published: Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Today (Tuesday, 28th June 2022), Beyond Exploitation, Ireland’s civil society campaign to end sexual exploitation in Ireland, welcomed the ground-breaking recognition of prostitution and sexual exploitation as a form of violence against women in the newly published Third National...
The National Women’s Council (NWC) today (28th June 2022) strongly welcomed the Third National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence as the most significant strategy for women and women’s equality. Responding to the publication of the...
Published: Tuesday, June 21, 2022
New statistics released today (21st June 2022) by the UK government show 775 Irish residents have been forced to travel for abortion care since the abortion legislation was introduced in Ireland.[1] In total, 206 Irish residents were forced to travel in 2021 an increase...
Published: Monday, June 20, 2022
At the National Economic Dialogue, the National Women’s Council today (Monday, 20th June 2022) called on the Government to tackle the cost of living crisis for women through investment in public services and income supports in Budget 2023. As a...
Published: Thursday, June 16, 2022
In response to a press release that we received ahead of our Annual General Meeting on the 9th June 2022 stating that an organisation called 'The Countess' "will be staging an action at the AGM of the...
Published: Wednesday, June 15, 2022
We condemn the ongoing misrepresentation of our position on the use of the word ‘woman’ in legislation and policy. We believe the attempts to misrepresent our position on this are a deliberate attempt to create a false and...
Published: Friday, June 10, 2022
The National Women’s Council (NWC) is delighted to announce Margaret Martin as our new Chairperson and Jennifer Okeke Campbell as our Deputy Chairperson. Margaret Martin and Jennifer Okeke Campbell were elected by NWC members at NWC’s...
Published: Thursday, June 09, 2022
The National Women’s Council (NWC) today (Thursday, 9th June) has called on the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality to prioritise the necessary changes in our Constitution on women and the value of care in our society by...
Published: Friday, May 27, 2022
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) is calling on the Government to look to the success of the Norwegian model of legislative gender quotas in its urge for political support for the Private Members Bill on gender...
Published: Tuesday, May 24, 2022
On the fourth anniversary of Repeal the 8th, the National Women’s Council (NWC) called on the Government to address the lack of nationwide abortion services which is severely impacting women and pregnant people’s access to care. ...
Published: Thursday, May 19, 2022
Beyond Exploitation, Ireland’s civil society campaign for equality and freedom from sexual exploitation, called on the Government to protect women and children fleeing the war in Ukraine from trafficking and exploitation. The call was made at an international...
Published: Saturday, May 14, 2022
Today the National Women’s Council will join with women and campaigning groups outside the Dáil to call for a publicly owned, secular National Maternity Hospital. Orla O’Connor, Director of NWC said, “We know...
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