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Published: Thursday, November 21, 2024
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWC) and Women for Election are calling on general election candidates to commit to increasing women’s representation in the next Dáil term. NWC have highlighted 10 key asks for...
Published: Saturday, November 27, 2010
Labour Women support the white ribbon campaign launched yesterday by The Other Half to ask men to take a stand against violence against women and girls said Katherine Dunne, Labour Women Chair. "Violence against women is not simply an issue...
Published: Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Susan McKay, CEO of the National Women's Council of Ireland, has been awarded a Woman of the Year award by Irish Tatler magazineSusan was presented with the award, for Woman of the Year in Public Life, at a gala event...
National Women's Council of IrelandGender Mainstreaming Strategy for the Health Service ExecutiveThe NWCI is seeking to contract an experienced and highly skilled researcher for this project.The tender is for the production of a Gender Mainstreaming Strategy for the Health...
Published: Monday, November 22, 2010
The majority of workers in the lowest paid sectors of the economy - retail, hotels and restaurants, childcare - are women. On average, women are paid 10.7% less than men. In the private sector, women are paid almost 20% less than men....
Actor Fiona Shaw opens exhibition celebrating the work of Alice Milligan 'possibly the best kept secret in Irish history' - an unjustly forgottenjournalist, political activist, feminist, human rights campaigner, 'CulturalAmbassador', theatre pioneer and Ulster Protestant Unionist who became anIrish nationalist...
Published: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
This is rife globally, in conflict and in peacetime, and it is rife in this country.When I started working for the National Women's Council in May 2009, everyone was talking about the Equality for Women money. Groups were counting on...
Published: Monday, November 15, 2010
We need all the help we can get in these troubled times. Please vote for our video by clicking on the big yellow star onhttp://www.bettertogether.ie/content/longford-womens-link-better-togetherBefore 5.00pm today. It doesn't matter if you have voted already,...
This year the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has been holding a series of lecture on trying to influence the Government to take an alternative economic view. This campaign is called 'A Better Fairer Way'. As part of the 'Better...
Published: Saturday, November 13, 2010
Our female TDs and Senators held a meeting this week to discuss the fraught issue of women in politics and how their numbers in parliament can be increased. The event was organised by Minister of State for Equality Mary White...
SEXIST E-MAILS by male employees about young female colleagues in PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dublin were being viewed on internet sites around the globe yesterday.The series of e-mails, that included staff photographs of the women, were circulated within the firm at...
Published: Tuesday, November 09, 2010
The Government must launch an official inquiry into the treatment of women and girls detained in so-called Magdalene Laundries, it has been ruled.The Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) said compensation should be paid to former residents where the state...
We are beginning a consultation process with women from the north, border counties, women in direct provision and asylum seekers in the south and women who have experienced conflict and gender based violence on this island; and representatives from the...
"MADE in Dagenham" is not remotely what you would call a fashion film. Set in 1968, in an automobile factory outside London, it is a dramatized account of the landmark labor dispute between the Ford Motor Company and a group of...
Published: Sunday, November 07, 2010
Terrence McDonagh (Economist NUI Galway) who told us that economics is ideologically driven and the current dominant ideology has resulted (and continues to result ) in the policies that we have seen fail us economically, socially and environmentally.Michael Taft (Economist...
Published: Thursday, November 04, 2010
Launch of Belonging - a FOMACS/ICI production - which articulates a diversity of young voices as they express and reflect upon their everyday lives and views on the future. Belonging was conceived and produced over two weekend workshops, where...
Women's Aid and groups around Ireland have been working to address domestic violence for over 35 years. We know that every day in Ireland women are beaten, raped and trapped in their own homes by those closest to them - their...
We are contacting you to invite you to a briefing and organising on Congress plans for a National Demonstration. This will be an opportunity to raise our voices in Social Solidarity with each other before the Budget. This meeting will...
Welcome to this weeks' newsletter.What's Where: Page 1 LINC Revamp & FacebookPage 2 Training Schedule & DetailsPage 3 What's Happening in LINCPage 4 What's happening in the LGBT CommunityPage 5 NoticeboardClick here.
'Prosperity without Growth - from growth to security in hard times?' Draft outline of the workshop scheduled to take place on Wednesday 10th November at 2pm in Irish Aid Centre, O Connell st 2-3.15 pm Overview by Professor John...
Date for Diary9.00am-4.30pm, Saturday 27th November 2010Trinity College DublinThe Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) and the Faculty of Law, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) have the pleasure of inviting you to a significant day long conference examining the human...
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