Sign Up to News Join NWCI
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Alliance of over 40 organisations reminds newly elected TDs of their election promises 18th December 2024 Under the slogan ‘All we want for Christmas is public childcare’, the campaign alliance, Together for Public, gathered outside Leinster House today (Wednesday, 18th...
Published: Tuesday, May 05, 2015
Women from all walks of life came together at the press conference “Women4Yes” today, led by the National Women’s Council of Ireland, to promote a yes vote in the upcoming Marriage Equality referendum. Orla...
Published: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The government is currently conducting consultation in two areas Childcare Public Consultation on Future Investment in Early Years and School-Age Care and Education: Views from the Early Years Sector. To make a consultation, see here. Pensions The Government recently announced...
NWCI is supporting a YES vote in the Marriage Equality Referendum on 22 May, as mandated by our membership. And we hope you will join us, as individuals and as organisations, in promoting the YES vote. The women’s movement...
NWCI has expressed its disappointment at the Spring Statement delivered by the Government on 28 April. In our press release we highlighted the lack of high level commitment to public investment in areas such as childcare and to employment policies that...
In response to the Government’s Spring Statement today, the National Women’s Council of Ireland expresses disappointment at the lack of high level commitment to public investment in areas such as childcare and to employment policies that...
Published: Tuesday, April 28, 2015
NWCI, with funding from the HSE, has produced a video to raise awareness amongst healthcare professionals and NGOs of the importance of gender in health policy, planning and service delivery and to support NWCI Gender Matters Training Programme. It is...
In Tokyo last month, NWCI made a successful bid to host the 7th World Congress on Women’s Mental Health in Dublin from 6-8 March 2017. We will host it in partnership with Conference partners and Trinity College Dublin. We...
NWCI in partnership with HSE has been undertaking consultations on the HSE draft Maternity Services Charter during March and April. There has been great interest in identifying priorities for our maternity services to make them more responsive to the needs...
Published: Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Those of you who came to the opening of NWCI's new home, or who attended our seminar on representations of women's work last July will be familar with Katie O'Kelly's solo show COUNTER CULTURE. COUNTER CULTURE...
Published: Tuesday, April 07, 2015
In response to media reports that the Government is considering proposals to introduce paternity leave and to lengthen parental leave to one year, NWCI today welcomed the proposals but highlighted that any new leave entitlement would need to be paid...
Published: Thursday, March 19, 2015
The National Women’s Council of Ireland today responded to the Nevin Economic Research Institute’s (NERI) latest quarterly economic bulletin which highlighted that 60 % of low paid workers are women. Alice-Mary Higgins, Policy Officer with NWCI stated, &ldquo...
The UN Commission on the Status of Women meet each year at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. This year, NWCI joined representatives from Member States, International Organisations and civil society across the world for a special 59th...
Our Membership Development Officer, Eilis Ni Chaithnia, attended the 2015 ICTU’s Women’s Seminar in Belfast on 5 and 6 March. The seminar was a great opportunity to explore a myriad of equality issues that impact on women’s...
Over 300 people took part in "A Woman's Place is in the World", the joint NWCI and IHREC conference in Dublin Castle. The conference, on women's human rights, heard from President Michael D. Higgins, Mary Robinson, former President...
Published: Wednesday, March 18, 2015
NWCI votes YES for Marriage Equality! NWCI is eager to play our part in securing a YES vote in the Marriage Equality Referendum. Along with Moninne Griffith, NWCI’s chairperson and head of Marriage Equality, we are inviting our...
In the lead up to International Women's Day, NWCI launched our latest publication "Better Boards, Better Business, Better Society." Renowned Icelandic woman entrepreneur, Halla Tomasdottir launched the new National Women’s Council of Ireland handbook, which aims increase...
A massive thank you to everyone who took part in #NWCISoapbox, by speaking on the Soapbox, coming to Central Bank to hear the speeches or by joining the conversation around what women want online. We had a great day,...
As a result of the work that Future Voices does with marginalised young people, they have seen how disenfranchised and disengaged young people are with the political process. Young people are not engaging because there is very little for them...
Media coverage of women's sport is about 4-7%, depending on which report you give most weight to, yet the demand for media coverage is far greater. After being part of the Irish National Hockey team for 10 years, Sharon Hutchinson...
Over the last month NWCI in conjunction with the HSE has been holding regional workshops to hear and document the experiences of accessing health services from women and men including transgender people. There was great participation and a wide diversity...
Page 42 of 131 pages ‹ First < 40 41 42 43 44 > Last ›
