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Published: Friday, December 12, 2025
National Women’s Council welcomes recommendation to set up women’s museum The National Women’s Council (NWC) today (12th December 2025) welcomed the wide-ranging recommendations by the Government’s Advisory Committee on Women’s Stories...
Published: Thursday, July 07, 2011
The majority of board memberships, executive and non-executive are still held by menDESPITE THE changing nature of gender relations in the workplace over the last few decades, corporate Ireland remains a predominantly male domain.An analysis of the board configuration...
Published: Tuesday, July 05, 2011
CRISIS IN BAHRAIN - As the human rights crisis continues in Bahrain Front Line is deeply concerned about the ongoing prosecution of doctors and nurses who are facing the prospect of prison sentences simply because they treated injured demonstrators during...
MORE THAN 50 per cent of working women globally, 600 million, are trapped in insecure jobs without legal protection, according to the first report of the new agency UN Women.A similar number do not have even basic protection against domestic violence,...
Published: Monday, July 04, 2011
Women in Northern Ireland are being driven back into the household by the global recession, according to a new report which likens the current situation to that of the 1950s.The report, 'Women on the Edge of the NI Economy',...
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has today published a report on the fundamental rights of irregular migrants who are employed as domestic workers in the European Union (EU).Most irregular migrants in domestic work are women.The...
Will talking about rape through songs and a Jackass-style video change how young men think? Joan Smith looks at a campaign aiming to find outA young man tries to vault a parking meter and falls flat on his face. A...
Published: Sunday, July 03, 2011
THERE IS already "ample evidence" of the State's involvement in the Magdalene laundries for these women to at least receive pensions for the years of unpaid work they carried out, a meeting of the Irish Women Survivors Support Network in...
Published: Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in Ireland.This summer the Marie Keating Foundation is answering the Burning Questions about sun safety through providing the facts about how to avoid getting sunburned by using sun cream effectively and knowing...
Published: Monday, June 27, 2011
Longford Women's Manifesto Group was formed two years when women in the county felt alienated from local politics and dissatisfied with decision making processes. Women, within households, communities and society, do not have the same access to and control over...
ENTERPRISE Minister Richard Bruton has been warned that his proposals to reform wage-setting mechanisms could cause poverty for hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers.A coalition of unions and social justice groups has written to Mr Bruton, calling on him...
Published: Thursday, June 23, 2011
We would like to thank all our members for supporting our AGM and making it a great event. It was a fantastic day and a resounding success in general. We hope you really enjoyed it. If you would like to...
Published: Wednesday, June 15, 2011
AL KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia -- When Manal al-Sharif posted a video of herself breaking the law by driving her own black S.U.V. around this hot, flat city and called for a collective protest on Friday, the government responded...
Published: Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Michele Bachelet, UN Women Executive Director and long time champion for women's rights, addressed the Committee on Domestic Workers during the 100th International Labour Conference, highlighting the issue of decent work for domestic workers and the inherent danger a lack...
Published: Monday, June 13, 2011
The 2010 Tipperary International Peace Prize is being awarded to Afghan human rights activist, Dr. Sima Samar. The announcement of the award was made on January 1st, 2011 in a statement issued by Tipperary Peace Convention. The statement says that Dr. Samar...
Published: Sunday, June 12, 2011
Coalition to Protect Lowest Paid / National Women's Council of IrelandNews Release12 June 2011The National Women's Council of Ireland expresses deep concern that the Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation, Richard Bruton, T.D, has not heeded its requests to meet...
Published: Tuesday, June 07, 2011
This thought-provoking short film from Scottish Rape Centre highlights the heinous but sadly widely accepted concept that women who dress in a certain manner are inviting sexual attacks. Looking at it from a no-nonsense approach, it examines the idea that...
Published: Thursday, June 02, 2011
2nd June 2011Click here to read the article published in the Examiner in response to the letter.Dear Deputy,Last year, I wrote to all women TDs, Senators and Councillors seeking support for the campaign for justice for women who...
Published: Monday, May 30, 2011
By Henry Samuel in ParisTuesday May 31 2011FRANCE'S male politicians are becoming increasingly anxious about their futures after one female minister warned that half of the country's male MPs were potentially "in trouble" due to their treatment of women.Still reeling...
A man who raped a babysitter nearly 30 years ago has succeeded in having his 11-year sentence reduced on appeal. John Regan (62), Cloonfad, Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo, was jailed for 11 years in April 2008 after a Central Criminal Court jury found him guilty...
Published: Sunday, May 29, 2011
The National Women's Council of Ireland applauds the government's decision to tackle our appalling record on women's representation in the Houses of Oireachtas. The announcement that political parties are to lose half of their state funding unless at least 30% of...
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