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Published: Thursday, January 30, 2025
On Wednesday, 29 January, the Women’s Mental Health Network, a collaboration between St Patrick’s Mental Health Services and the National Women’s Council (NWC), is hosting an event to explore the intersection between long-term physical health...
Published: Wednesday, October 16, 2019
The year long Women for Change project has come to a close. A final closing event was held in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission on the 12th September. The event marked the culmination of a year long...
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) today launched an online survey seeking the views of young women aged 16-25 on the issues that affect them and the campaigns that matter to them. The responses to this survey...
Published: Tuesday, October 15, 2019
NWCI is supporting a new campaign called 'Four Day Week Ireland' that aims to start a public conversation on the case for reduced working hours. The campaign is supported by a coalition of trade unions, businesses, environmentalists, women’s...
The Abortion Working Group, chaired by NWCI, is a collective of civil society organisations and healthcare providers. The purpose of the group is to provide a space for information sharing and collective advocacy for groups working to ensure safe access...
Women from Clare will come together at a public gathering to call for better local services in the Kilrush area today. The event is being organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) and the West...
Published: Friday, October 11, 2019
October saw a great step forward for women’s health in Ireland. A new Women’s Health Taskforce has been established by the Department of Health. It will be led by Secretary General Jim Breslin and Director General...
Published: Thursday, October 10, 2019
NWCI welcomed the opportunity to respond to the Oireachtas Committee on Justice and equality consultation concerning online harassment, harmful communications and related offences. Online violence against women is an overt expression of the gender discrimination and inequality that exists offline. ...
Published: Wednesday, October 09, 2019
In response to the Budget 2020 announcement by Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Katherine Zappone, the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) today welcomed the €54 million investment, which is largely targeted at those on lowest incomes to...
We were delighted to attend the celebration of our group member Women in Touch in Granard, Co. Longford on the 8th October. Women in Touch are a peer led women's social support group. They joined NWCI ...
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) in partnership with Community Law & Mediation (CLM) are launching a new project addressing workplace discrimination including a free employment law advice clinic for women which will run for 12 months. The...
Published: Tuesday, October 08, 2019
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) today welcomed the announcement of research to examine international best practice in relation to maintenance payments, and said that this research must lead to the establishment of a Statutory Maintenance Agency...
Published: Thursday, September 19, 2019
The Abortion Working Group, chaired by the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI), today expressed concerns that the failure to introduce Safety Zone legislation means an anti-abortion protest, planned for 40 days outside the national maternity hospital, will proceed...
Published: Wednesday, September 18, 2019
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) today (18 September) was delighted to be recognised as one of the first Sustainable Development Goal champions by the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Richard Bruton T.D. at the...
Published: Friday, September 13, 2019
Press Release Date 12th September 2019 The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI)’s ‘Women for Change’ event, held today, saw women from Limerick, North Cork, Mayo, Navan, Meath and Clare come together to celebrate their...
Published: Wednesday, September 11, 2019
The latest report by the ESRI “Gender, pension and income in retirement” published today, shows when it comes to pensions the vast inequality between women and men persists. Commenting on the findings and policy recommendations of the report,...
Published: Tuesday, September 10, 2019
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) is Ireland’s leading national women’s organisation. Established in 1973, NWCI represents more than 180 group members and an increasing number of individual members across Ireland. NWCI’s membership...
Published: Thursday, August 22, 2019
NWCI is currently recruiting for the post of: Women’s Economic Equality Co-Ordinator This is an exciting time for NWCI. Change is happening for women in Ireland and we would like you to be part of that....
Published: Tuesday, August 06, 2019
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI)’s Submission to the Department of Health on Access to Contraception has this weekend called for a scheme to provide the most effective and appropriate methods of contraception free-of-charge, provided...
Published: Thursday, July 18, 2019
We launched our Pre-Budget Submission 2020 'Equality Now - Invest in Women' at a briefing in the Oireachtas on 3rd July 2019. The event was well attended by TDs, Senators and parliamentary staff from across the different parties. Hosted by Catherine Martin,...
In the lead up to the European Elections on May 24th, NWCI launched our #Feminist Europe campaign and held a series of public hustings events in Cork, Galway and Dublin. 250 people attended our European election events and over 150 people tuned...
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