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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

Published: Sunday, January 24, 2010

"Attacking low paid workers is yet another example of Government's broken promises to protect the most vulnerable in the recession", stated NWCI Head of Policy, Orla O'Connor.The NWCI to-day expressed its anger at the proposal by Government to introduce...

Talk by Gazan Human Rights Defender Khalil Shaheen

Published: Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Date: Wednesday 20 JanuaryTime: 7:00pm - 8:30pmVenue: Irish Aid Centre, O'Connell Street, Dublin 1 (map: http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=306269002&u=3412242)Amnesty International Ireland wishes to remind you that we will host...

National Women’s Council of Ireland support and solidarity to the young woman at the centre of the L

Published: Thursday, December 17, 2009

The National Women's Council of Ireland welcomes the news that Father Sean Sheehy has offered to withdraw from his parish - but insists that he must not be reassigned to any other parish, in Ireland or elsewhere. "The Catholic church...

There’s something about Mary Robinson

Published: Thursday, December 17, 2009

There's something about Mary Robinson. As one of the world's leading human rights activists, she is a formidable woman and an outstandingly brave one. She moves among world leaders with gracious ease. But she has never forgotten what she learned...

NWCI calls on Oireachtas to reject the Social Welfare Bill

Published: Thursday, December 10, 2009

Press StatementFriday 11th December 2009NWCI calls on Oireachtas to reject the Social Welfare Bill'Cuts proposed in Budget 2010 will be devastating for women and children, with cuts to Child Benefit, to lone parents payment, to maternity Benefit, and to Carers payments...

Ireland must stop banishing women, says National Women’s Council

Published: Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Ireland must stop banishing women, says the National Women's Council of IrelandThe days of banishing women to seek healthcare must end, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland. Speaking on the eve of a landmark case before the European...

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