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The government is currently conducting consultation in two areas; childcare and pensions

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 expresses disappointment at Spring Statement

Published: Wednesday, April 29, 2015

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...

New Gender Matters in Health Video is now Online!

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...

World Congress on Women’s Mental Health

Published: Tuesday, April 28, 2015

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...

Consultation on HSE draft Maternity Services Charter.

Published: Tuesday, April 28, 2015

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...

NWCI in New York for the Beijing+20 Commission on the Status of Women

Published: Thursday, March 19, 2015

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...

NWCI at the ICTU’s Women’s Seminar in Belfast

Published: Thursday, March 19, 2015

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...

A Woman’s Place is in the World - Beijing+20 Conference

Published: Thursday, March 19, 2015

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...