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1. Forbes announce the world’s 100 Most Powerful Women
Excerpt: …Forbes have announced the world's 100 most powerful women and the list includes some inspirational and powerful women who are blazing a trail for women all over the world. They run the gauntlet from CEOs to politicians to cultural icons. It is refreshing to see these innovative and awe-inspiring women…
Section: Latest News
2. NWCI Submission to Review of NWS 2011
Excerpt: …Click here to read the full National Women's Strategy 2007 - 2016.
Section: Publications
3. Most victims of sex trafficking are African, says support group
Excerpt: …MORE THAN HALF of sex trafficking victims who sought help in Ireland last year were from Nigeria, a support group has said in its annual report.According to Ruhama, a non-government organisation which supports women affected by prostitution, 204 women involved in the sex trade looked for help in 2010.Of the…
Section: Latest News
4. Prostitution infiltrating rural areas, says agency
Excerpt: …TECHNOLOGY HAS aided the spread of prostitution into rural Ireland with pimps and traffickers now able to monitor women working in small communities, women's agency Ruhama has said.The agency, which helps victims of trafficking and women involved in prostitution, said mobile phones and the internet were increasingly being used to…
Section: Latest News
5. Is it time for Irish women to go Dutch?
Excerpt: …With part-time work the norm among young Dutch mothers, is it any surprise that they are happier than their counterparts in other countries around the world?FOR OUT-OF-WORK Irish women, including victims of the current economic malaise, Wieteke Spruijt-de Boer's decision to turn down a choice of potentially fulfilling, well-paid full-time…
Section: Latest News
Excerpt: …Take a moment and ask yourself whether you would hide a secret army of women to fight in the battle against men in a distant alternative future.The Female Man by Joanna Russ asks just that question. I picked up the book after seeing an article following her death in April…
Section: Latest News
7. Women’s Resource and Development Agency launch new website
Excerpt: …The Women's Resource and Development Agency have launched a brand new website revealing a new online identity and new social media communications strategy aimed at attracting a wider audience to the Agency.The new look website has a fresh vibrant design and several new categories while still featuring such staple items…
Section: Latest News
8. Ruhama launch 2010 Statistics Report
Excerpt: …Ruhama have launched their 2010 Statistic Report.An audio file of the testimony "an escort's story" will shortly be available on their website www.ruhama.ie.Click here to read the report in full.
Section: Latest News
9. Ireland’s sex trade ‘thriving’
Excerpt: …About 1,000 women are working as prostitutes in Ireland every day, an agency which supports those in the sex trade said.Ruhama said it worked with 204 women last year, up 4% on the previous year, while the number of new victims of trafficking it has been alerted to remained static.…
Section: Latest News
10. Gender quotas to be considered for state boards
Excerpt: …THE Justice Minister is considering gender quotas to ensure there are more women in important decision-making positions on state boards.Data being compiled for the Department of Justice is expected to show women make up just 34% of state board positions and an even lower percentage of chairperson positions.The figures fall…
Section: Latest News
11. Arifa Akbar: Don’t listen to the lipstick feminists
Excerpt: …I remember going to the launch of one of Shere Hite's sex surveys which focused on female desire, and being stunned not by what she said but by how she looked. She was heavily made-up and wore a spray-on dress with precipitous heels. It looked like a book launch that…
Section: Latest News
12. Gender pay gap has widened
Excerpt: …The pay gap between men and women in Ireland has widened, official figures have revealed.The difference in average wage levels had been decreasing for years but the trend has reversed since 2007.The latest report by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) shows women are now getting paid almost 13 per cent…
Section: Latest News
13. Wal-Mart women to sue individually
Excerpt: …SAN FRANCISCO - Women who were part of a massive class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc will have until the end of October to file individual lawsuits against the company, a US judge ruled.Women who say the company denied them pay raises and promotions because of gender bias are…
Section: Latest News
14. Profile of a revolutionary: Maryam Al-Khawaya
Excerpt: …Earlier this year a wave of revolutions rolled across the Middle East.Orchestrated via text messages on BlackBerries and call-outs on Facebook and Twitter, many of the uprisings were driven by young people no longer willing to tolerate their country's repressive politics or flagrant disregard for basic human rights.One of the…
Section: Latest News
15. AkiDwA’s 10th Anniversary Celebrations: Fundraising and Recognition Dinner
Excerpt: …We would like to cordially invite you to attend AkiDwA's 10th Anniversary Fundraising and Recognition Dinner on the 23rd of September 2011, to be held at the Gresham Hotel, O'Connell Street, Dublin 1.Akina Dada wa Africa (AkiDwA- Swahili for sisterhood), was established in August 2001 by a group of African…
Section: Newsflash
16. ACT NOW Staff Briefing on 6 September
Excerpt: …We are holding a briefing workshop for the staff of Act Now members at 2pm on the 6th of September. This will include discussion of the budget process, the campaign's plans for the coming months and key messages. Where Venue to be confirmed, in Dublin city centre. When 2pm, 6…
Section: Newsflash
17. Islam Ireland welcomes debate on burqa but government has no plans for ban
Excerpt: …THE ISLAMIC CULTURAL Centre of Ireland has welcomed the opportunity to debate the issue of banning the burqa in this country but the Department of Justice has said there are no proposals to do so.Click here to read the full journal.ie article...
Section: Newsflash
18. TD criticises male culture in Dáil
Excerpt: …THE CULTURE of Irish men was sometimes reflected poorly in the Dáil, Anne Ferris, recently elected Labour TD for Wicklow, told the Parnell Summer School yesterday."Indeed we need only look back a few weeks to the comment made by three Independent TDs about a female colleague in Fine Gael [Mary…
Section: Newsflash
19. TD criticises male culture in Dáil
Excerpt: …THE CULTURE of Irish men was sometimes reflected poorly in the Dáil, Anne Ferris, recently elected Labour TD for Wicklow, told the Parnell Summer School yesterday."Indeed we need only look back a few weeks to the comment made by three Independent TDs about a female colleague in Fine Gael [Mary…
Section: Latest News
20. France’s face veil ban takes effect today
Excerpt: …A CONTROVERSIAL BAN on face veils will come into effect in France today, with women wearing certain face coverings in public places risking fines of €150 and being obliged to attend a "citizenship" course.The ban will apply to Islamic dress such as the burqa (a full body covering which leaves…
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