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Published: Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Read our Post Budget Analysis to find out what Budget 2024 means for women
Published: Tuesday, April 25, 2023
NWC are proud to publish "Towards A Zero Tolerance Approach: A Good Practice Guide to the implementation of "Safe, Respectful, Supportive and Positive – Ending Sexual Violence and Harassment in Higher Education" (the Framework)." The Good Practice Guide has been supported...
Published: Tuesday, October 25, 2022
The National Women’s Council is calling on the Government to deliver on a new era for women’s reproductive healthcare and adopt a holistic approach to women’s needs across her lifespan. This new report 'Every Woman – Towards Reproductive...
Published: Wednesday, April 27, 2022
The Director of the National Women’s Council of Ireland, Orla O’Connor, presented to the Oireachtas Health Committee on the ongoing issues for women and pregnant people who need abortion care in Ireland.
Published: Thursday, July 08, 2021
This paper is informed by the perspectives of our members and the lived experience of women. NWC has many rurally based organisations in its membership. It seeks to analyse women’s equality and human rights issues from a rural perspective...
Published: Wednesday, April 08, 2020
NWCI's Feminist Future Programme for Government document, calling on the new Government to significantly invest in public services and infrastructure to build on the response to COVID 19.
Published: Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Published: Tuesday, February 27, 2018
A Chathaoirleach and members of the committee, Thank you for the invitation to appear before the Committee and the opportunity to comment on the Equality Budgeting initiative led by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DEPR) and undertaken by...
Published: Thursday, November 23, 2017
NWCI’s mission is to achieve equality for women, central to that is the achievement economic independence and economic equality. The gap in earnings between women and men goes to the heart of inequality between women and men in the...
Published: Thursday, June 29, 2017
Women predominately rely on State Pensions to provide an income in their older years. Yet for a number of reasons, both historical and current, women continue to have less access to State Pensions then men. Currently 84% of those receiving a...
Published: Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Ireland’s budgetary process has long faced criticism for its opaque and complex nature. Recent reform aimed at providing for greater parliamentary participation and transparency are to be welcomed. In order to achieve equality, we must act purposefully. It requires...
Published: Tuesday, April 07, 2015
Over 60% of those on low pay are women and, according to the CSO, 50% of women in Ireland are earning €20,000 or less. The establishment of a Low Pay Commission is a positive step and a very welcome recognition of a serious...
Published: Monday, January 06, 2014
This publication of the personal experiences of some of Ireland’s women has been produced by National Women’s Council of Ireland, supported by the European Commission Representation in Ireland. NWCI would like to thank Niamh O’Carroll, Project Director,...
Published: Thursday, December 12, 2013
Presentation highlights the difficulties faced by migrant women of all backgrounds and of different immigration status in Ireland.
Highlights from PHD research titled ‘Equal but Different: Gender Discourses in the Social Relations of Irish Peacekeepers & Possibilities for Transformation’, focusing on the challenges to including women in peacekeeping. In essence, the research is providing baseline data for the Defence...
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