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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: Sunday, August 28, 2011
THREE TIMES MORE women and children in Ireland are homeless because of domestic violence since last year, according to a new study.The domestic violence charity Sonas Housing has reported a 163 per cent increase in the use of its services...
Published: Thursday, August 25, 2011
Ruhama have launched their 2010 Statistic Report.An audio file of the testimony "an escort's story" will shortly be available on their website www.ruhama.ie.Click here to read the report in full.
AkiDwA, the African and Migrant Women's Network, in association with Dublin City Council Invites you to the launch of photo exhibition MIGRANT WOMEN TRANSFORMING IRELANDDate: 12 September 2011Time: 11 am-1pmVenue: Exchange Dublin, Exchange Street Upper, Temple Bar, Dublin 2While integration is...
Launch of an organisation/inauguration of African women is diasporia initiativeSpecial Guest Speakers will include Dr. Maura Adshead, Uiniversity of Limerick, Liz Price, Limerick Women's Network and Salome Mbugua, Akidwa. The Event Facilitator is Eidin Nishe, University of Limerick.Admission...
SIPTU are pleased to announce a series of regional forums entitled "Building a Strong Union Voice & Defending the Community Sector". The purpose of these forums is to discuss the current and imminent threats facing the community sector and how...
DOOR TO WORK - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!AkiDwA's pilot work experience programme, launched in January 2011, has been successfully completed. AkiDwA, network of migrant women living in Ireland, is running the work experience programme again and registration for the next programme...
Dublin Nollywood Film Festival are pleased to announce the premier of The Mirror Boy and The Impostor.Date: 22nd SeptemberVenue: Screen Cinema, Townsend Street.To buy tickets, contact 087 0966 766/01 671 3639 or mail nollywood@dublin.ie. Tickets cost €10 and are also available on...
AkiDwA would like to cordially invite you to attend their 10th Anniversary Fundraising and Recognition Dinner on the 23rd of September 2011, to be held at the Gresham Hotel, O'Connell Street, Dublin 1.Akina Dada wa Africa (AkiDwA- Swahili for sisterhood), was...
Published: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Forbes have announced the world's 100 most powerful women and the list includes some inspirational and powerful women who are blazing a trail for women all over the world. They run the gauntlet from CEOs to politicians to cultural icons. It...
Published: Monday, August 22, 2011
MORE THAN HALF of sex trafficking victims who sought help in Ireland last year were from Nigeria, a support group has said in its annual report.According to Ruhama, a non-government organisation which supports women affected by prostitution, 204 women involved...
TECHNOLOGY HAS aided the spread of prostitution into rural Ireland with pimps and traffickers now able to monitor women working in small communities, women's agency Ruhama has said.The agency, which helps victims of trafficking and women involved in prostitution,...
With part-time work the norm among young Dutch mothers, is it any surprise that they are happier than their counterparts in other countries around the world?FOR OUT-OF-WORK Irish women, including victims of the current economic malaise, Wieteke Spruijt-de Boer's...
Take a moment and ask yourself whether you would hide a secret army of women to fight in the battle against men in a distant alternative future.The Female Man by Joanna Russ asks just that question. I picked up...
The Women's Resource and Development Agency have launched a brand new website revealing a new online identity and new social media communications strategy aimed at attracting a wider audience to the Agency.The new look website has a fresh vibrant...
Published: Sunday, August 21, 2011
About 1,000 women are working as prostitutes in Ireland every day, an agency which supports those in the sex trade said.Ruhama said it worked with 204 women last year, up 4% on the previous year, while the number of new victims of...
THE Justice Minister is considering gender quotas to ensure there are more women in important decision-making positions on state boards.Data being compiled for the Department of Justice is expected to show women make up just 34% of state board positions...
I remember going to the launch of one of Shere Hite's sex surveys which focused on female desire, and being stunned not by what she said but by how she looked. She was heavily made-up and wore a spray-on dress...
The pay gap between men and women in Ireland has widened, official figures have revealed.The difference in average wage levels had been decreasing for years but the trend has reversed since 2007.The latest report by the Central Statistics Office ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Women who were part of a massive class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc will have until the end of October to file individual lawsuits against the company, a US judge ruled.Women who say the company...
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