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Fertility clinic will only treat married couples…..Irish Daily Mail (Friday 16 April 2010)

Published: Thursday, April 15, 2010

By Susan McKay, Director of the National Women's Council of Ireland When my daughters were small, we went to live in a very conservative little village in the far North. At their very Protestant state school, they were approached by...

NWCI supports the MCRI Campaign for the Rights of Migrant Workers to Change Employers

Published: Thursday, April 15, 2010

Minister Batt O'KeeffeMinister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation23 Kildare StreetDublin 2 16 April 2010 Dear Minister O'Keeffe, The National Women's Council of Ireland is shocked by the exploitation of migrant workers in this country by unscrupulous employers, and we call on you to...

AIMS Ireland Press Release —April 7, 2010

Published: Monday, April 12, 2010

Nearly a quarter of women found the care they received in the Irish Maternity System after they gave birth to be "poor". A new survey carried out by AIMS Ireland (Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services, Ireland) found that 22%...

Ireland: A Land of a thousand welcomes?

Published: Monday, April 12, 2010

BY ELLA O'DWYERSALOME MBUGUA, from Kenya, is the director of AkiDwA, (the African Women's Network Ireland), an organisation committed to empowering African women living in Ireland. The organisation recently launched a report calling on the Government to address health and...

Joint EWL and Oxfam publication on Women and the Recession

Published: Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Women's poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession An Invisible Crisis?All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union....

Final Statement Concerning Beijing +15 process Review at Commission on the Status of Women

Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Final StatementConcerning Beijing +15 process Review at Commission on the Status of WomenNew York, March 4th, 2010Please click here for the pdf versionThe Fourth World Conference on Women produced the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), a comprehensive women's human...

‘We don’t recognise ourselves in the rosy picture painted by Minister Moloney’ say women’s groups

Published: Tuesday, March 09, 2010

ROSY PICTURE NOT ONE WE RECOGNISE, SAY WOMEN'S GROUPS.The National Women's Council of Ireland is astonished by the speech made by Minister John Moloney at the Commission on the Status of Women in New York this week. The Minister...

Response to the Second Report of the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Human Rights,

Published: Tuesday, March 09, 2010

The National Women's Council of Ireland invites the committee to listen to a news report from today's Irish Times. The story is headlined: Cabinet agrees 30 diplomatic posts in major reshuffle, and it is by DEAGLÁN de BRÉADÚN, ...

International Women’s Day 2010

Published: Monday, March 08, 2010

The poorest people in Ireland today are older women, Sylvia Meehan, president of the Senior Citizens Parliament told a conference organised by the National Women's Council of Ireland to celebrate International Women's Day. 'These women gave their lives to rearing...

Historic Discrimination Repeated, says National Women’s Council

Published: Wednesday, March 03, 2010

The government today betrayed for the second time women who were forced to leave work up to the 1970's simply because they got married, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland. Minister Mary Hanafin today unequivocally stated that women...

Mary Harney’s refusal to set up an inquiry into the brutal practise of symphisiotomy is a scandal

Published: Thursday, February 18, 2010

MARY HARNEY'S REFUSAL TO SET UP AN INQUIRY INTO THE BRUTAL PRACTISE OF SYMPHISIOTOMY IS A SCANDAL, SAYS NATIONAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL.The National Women's Council of Ireland is calling on the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, to set up an...

Time for Government to be embarrassed into action over new figures on inequality, says National Wome

Published: Monday, February 08, 2010

New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the government must urgently apply itself to tackling persistent and unacceptable inequalities for women in Ireland. According to the National Women's Council of Ireland, the new Women and Men in Ireland...

We are looking for a Senior Administrator…

Published: Thursday, February 04, 2010

The National Women's Council of Ireland is seeking to recruit aSENIOR ADMINISTRATION AND INFORMATION OFFICERTo provide full administrative support to ensure the effective running of the NWCI. To deliver information, advice and referral services.You will be interested in this...

F Grade just not good enough!

Published: Sunday, January 24, 2010

Government's approach to Child Benefit Derisory to Women - National Women's Council of Ireland.'The cuts to Child Benefit, made in Budget 2010, are now taking effect and are devastating for women", stated Orla O'Connor NWCI Head of Policy. The National...

Government proposal to cut wage rates for retail, hotel and catering workers a disgrace