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Published: Friday, November 15, 2024
Gender Quota leads to record number of women running in General Election 2024 Ahead of the close of nominations for the General Election tomorrow (16th November), the National Women’s Council (NWC) today (15th November) welcomed the record number of...
Published: Thursday, January 05, 2012
The NWCI in association with the Irish Family Planning Association will be holding a members meeting The X Case: 20 Years of Inaction on Wednesday 29th of February from 10.30am to 3.30pm in our new offices in Parnell Square.The members...
The Older Women's Network is holding a lunch to celebrate Nollaig na Mban on Wednesday January 18th next in the Academy Plaza Hotel at 1.15pm. Our guest speaker Miriam O'Reilly, the former BBC presenter of Countryfile will be making a...
The Cavan Centre is a Community Development project offering residential programmes to marginalised and disadvantaged communities, groups and individuals of all ages.Since 1977 the Centre has been delivering a range of educational, creative, recreational and activity programmes aimed at targeted...
The National Women's Council of Ireland has been hit with a massive 35% cut to core funding in budget 2012. This attempt to silence the NWCI in this time of need must be reversed. We ask you to take action by asking...
In Ireland we work to counter racism with help from our friends and supportersWhat we doThe European Network Against Racism (ENAR) Ireland is a national network of anti-racist NGOs, which aims to work collectively to highlight and address the issue...
Half of us are WomenWhen I took on my role at feminist news site Women's Views on News (WVoN), I knew I was doing something positive towards a cause I had always supported. Little did I know how much it...
Published: Wednesday, January 04, 2012
The US ranks 40th in the world for women's political empowerment and 72nd for parliamentary representation -- legislatures, state and national.Shocked by these stats, feminist satirist and media critic Soroya Chemaly picks up on a question asked in a...
INAR- the voice of anti-racism in IrelandIn Ireland we work to counter racism with help from our friends and supportersWhat we doThe European Network Against Racism (ENAR) Ireland is a national network of anti-racist NGOs, which aims to work collectively...
Women's e-News has identified seven powerful change advocates for 2012.The seven - Susan L. Blount, Nancy Duff Campbell, Marcia D. Greenberger, Joe Keefe, Yousriya Loza-Sawiris, Natalia Oberti Noguera, Sue Osthoff and Julie Thukral - have been selected for being 'outstanding...
Published: Monday, January 02, 2012
'It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.'In Beijing in 1995, Hillary Rodham Clinton made her now historic...
Published: Monday, December 19, 2011
Eóin Murray,National Women's Council of IrelandIrish women have this week been left with a bittersweet taste in their mouths after the release of a bill designed to get more women involved in politics.The historic Electoral (Amendment) (Political...
Published: Thursday, December 15, 2011
HALF OF the Irish people are women. Last week, an 85 per cent male Government produced a budget which will lead to the impoverishment of thousands of Irish women and children, and which imposed a crippling 35 per cent cut to State...
FIANNA FÁIL has committed itself to ensuring women account for 30 per cent of its local election candidates in 2014, following the publication of a Government Bill to introduce gender quotas in national polls.Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan yesterday...
The Irish Feminist Network, a group working toward increased gender equality in Ireland, has called upon senators to vote against the Social Welfare Bill 2011. The bill is before the Seanad this week, having been passed by Dáil Éireann last...
Published: Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Press Release Historic bill tastes bittersweet after budget cutbacks The publication today of a historic bill to increase the numbers of women involved in politics comes against the background of an anti-women budget. The Electoral (Amendment) (political funding) bill 2011 makes...
Published: Sunday, December 11, 2011
I want to start by saying that I was delighted when the first invitation that I received to speak in my new role as SIPTU's National Equality and Campaigns Organiser was from the National Women's Council of Ireland. As a...
National Women's Council Members and Friends Meeting, Mount Errigal Hotel, Donegal, 12 December, 2011Context of Budget 2012Unemployment : Women's unemployment has now rapidly increased. Women's unemployment has increased by 10.1% in the last year in comparison to 6.8% for men. Poverty : Women's Poverty has...
Published: Thursday, December 08, 2011
Barnardos, OPEN and the National Women's Council of Ireland Dublin, 8 December 2011 – Barnardos, OPEN – national network of one-parent families – and the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) have called on TDs to ensure that measures to change the income disregard applicable...
Published: Wednesday, December 07, 2011
On Monday December 12th women from throughout Ireland will meet in Letterkenny to discuss the outcome and potential impact of Budget 2012 on women in Ireland. The meeting being hosted by the National Women's Council of Ireland, The National Collective of...
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