NWCI Submission on New Human Rights and Equality Commission

Published: Monday, June 11, 2012

Introduction
The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) is the national representative organisation of women in Ireland. Our mission is to achieve women's equality, empowering women to work together, while recognising and mobilising difference, in order to remove structural political, economic, cultural and affective inequalities.
The National Women's Council of Ireland welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the new human rights and equality commission consultation process. We hope that this evolves into a dialogue, and working together in partnership to achieve the objectives of both the HREC and women experiencing inequality.
We are particularly concerned to ensure that membership of the HREC is reflective of the diversity that exists in Irish society and that the membership of the Commission reflects the Government target of 40%-60% gender balance. We also propose that membership of the HREC be selected through an independent, transparent process and structure.

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