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Published: Friday, November 28, 2025
Housing solutions are core to ending violence against women. This is a key finding of a major new report by the National Women's Council launched today (28th November) which shows the need to clearly recognise this mutually reinforcing relationship...
Published: Tuesday, March 04, 2014
“A Parliament of all Talents: Building a Women-friendly Oireachtas” will be launched today, Tuesday 4th of March, by National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI), with a call for the government to implement a number of...
Published: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
National Women’s Council of Ireland welcomes today’s news that Minister Frances Fitzgerald will, this year, facilitate a review of state investment to support parents who need childcare. Orla O’Connor, Director of National Women&rsquo...
Published: Tuesday, February 18, 2014
One year on from Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s apology to Magdalene survivors and his acknowledgement of State involvement in the incarceration of the women, National Women’s Council of Ireland calls on the State to deliver on its...
Published: Thursday, February 13, 2014
Ruhama are seeking Housing and Social Welfare Intern for 9 Months, part time internship. 21 hours per week (flexible working hours during office hours negotiable). Ruhama is frontline NGO that has been supporting women affected by prostitution including victims of sex trafficking...
Published: Tuesday, February 11, 2014
The Aim of this Research The National Women’s Council of Ireland youth initiative, the Y Factor, are seeking a suitably qualified researcher(s) to undertake research on young women and labour market activation, looking at unemployment, emigration and...
Published: Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Thank you to the NWCI team who joined us in the Flora Women's Mini Marathon. We had a good day, got some exercise and fresh air, raised awareness of who we are and what we do and did a...
Published: Monday, January 27, 2014
Women's Aid is a leading national organisation that has been working in Ireland to stop domestic violence against women and children since 1974. We provide support and information through our National Freephone Helpline and one to one support services...
Published: Tuesday, January 14, 2014
WANT TO MAKE A CHANGE? BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY – BECOME A MEMBER TODAY Would you like to help make important changes in the lives of women and girls? Do you seek...
Published: Monday, January 06, 2014
Today on Nollaig Na mBan- a day when traditionally women sat back and let the men take over the housekeeping duties - the National Women’s Council of Ireland have asked government and society to look at 2014 as...
Published: Monday, December 16, 2013
As we come to the end of 2013 we wanted to share with you some of successes for women that have been achieved by NWCI and all of our supporters in our campaign for women's equality. 2013 has been a significant...
Published: Tuesday, December 10, 2013
NWCI urgently requests the Government reconsider its policy on the survivors of the Bethany Home. The Sinn Fein’s Private Member’s Motion, being tabled today, seeking apology and redress for surviving women and men of...
Dear Editor, We the undersigned are writing to you to express our deep concern at the situation of the survivors of the Bethany Home, Rathgar, Dublin. We are aware that Justice Minister Alan Shatter and Minister of State Kathleen...
At the launch and publication of “Violence Against Women: An Issue of Gender: Highlighting the Role of Gender in Analysis and Response” today, the Irish Observatory on Violence Against Women, chaired by National Women’s Council of...
Published: Monday, December 09, 2013
Are you sick of being told how to drop a dress size in time for Christmas, do you struggle with childcare over Christmas, or are you concerned about the rise in domestic violence that the Christmas period brings? Is your...
Published: Wednesday, December 04, 2013
Published: Wednesday, November 20, 2013
National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) today welcomes the news that the EU Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of gender quotas for publicly listed boards and calls for a response from the Irish government regarding what action they...
Published: Wednesday, November 13, 2013
At the Terminations for Medical Reasons press conference today, National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) issues support for the three women who are filing petitions with the United Nations Human Rights Committee, after being forced to travel to...
Published: Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Following the confirmation in the Irish Independent/ Today FM Behaviour and Attitudes Survey that one in four couples feel they are too poor to start a family, National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) is renewing calls for...
Published: Thursday, October 24, 2013
This Friday, October 25, the NWCI will be joining a protest against cuts to Maternity Benefit, at 1pm outside Leinster House. The cut to Maternity Benefit is an attack on women and families. All statutory maternity benefit rates have been standardised...
Published: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) today issued support for the mainly female Wallis workers on strike, following management refusal to compensate workers for loss of earnings and to meet previously agreed terms and conditions. Orla O&rsquo...
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