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Published: Tuesday, November 26, 2024
National Women’s Council and Women’s Aid Federation NI launch new report examining the issue of domestic violence across the island 26 November Today (26 November) the National Women’s Council (NWC) and Women’s Aid...
Published: Thursday, July 14, 2011
The National Womens Council of Ireland calls for further action from the Justice Minister Alan Shatter and Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Frances Fitzgerald after the response to the publication of Cloynes Report. The promised referendum will include the...
Published: Wednesday, July 13, 2011
The Vatican's approach to clerical abuse inquiries in Ireland has been branded a disgrace by the Taoiseach today.In the wake of the report into the Catholic Church's response to allegations of abuse in the diocese of Cloyne, Enda Kenny...
CONCERNS have been raised that the terms of reference for the inter-departmental committee to investigate state interaction with the Magdalene Laundries have yet to be made public.The Justice for Magdalenes (JFM) group has written to Justice Minister Alan Shatter...
LEGISLATION TO prevent female genital mutilation "is the first step to ensuring this practice does not take hold in Ireland", Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has told the Dáil. Introducing the Bill, he described the practice of the...
Published: Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Wexford TD Mick Wallace has apologised to a Dáil colleague after he was caught calling her "Miss Piggy" in an exchange with two fellow Independents.Mick Wallace was heard muttering the remark about Fine Gael's Dún Laoghaire TD...
It was refreshing to read the article by Hugh Muir on the approach to female genital mutilation in the UK (Hideously diverse Britain, 5 July). I have worked on FGM in Britain for around 30 years, helping to put it on the...
Published: Monday, July 11, 2011
Y-Lead is a video project aimed at profiling young women from across Irish society who are leading their communities. The videos are designed to inspire and empower young women to be leader's themselves, as well as praising the work of...
Published: Sunday, July 10, 2011
Eskimos don't actually have hundreds of words for snow. In fact, it's the Lapp people of northern Europe who do.Likewise, in Italian, there's no direct translation for the term 'politically correct'.True, the Italians will sometimes wrap their tongues...
Published: Thursday, July 07, 2011
Yesterday's decision by the High Court that the JLC (Joint Labour Committee) system for setting wages is unconstitutional has been widely condemned.Among the 200,000 effected by this ruling, the implications for women in Ireland will be serious.Click here to...
On a daily basis, we are assaulted with many messages in our society, culture & media. From victim blaming in cases of sexual assault to the constant objectification of women in all forms of media to the Irish Government cutting...
CRISIS IN BAHRAIN - As the human rights crisis continues in Bahrain Front Line is deeply concerned about the ongoing prosecution of doctors and nurses who are facing the prospect of prison sentences simply because they treated injured demonstrators during...
The majority of board memberships, executive and non-executive are still held by menDESPITE THE changing nature of gender relations in the workplace over the last few decades, corporate Ireland remains a predominantly male domain.An analysis of the board configuration...
A journalist has been jailed for a month by a court in northern Sudan after she reported the claim by youth activist Safiya Eshaq that she was raped by Khartoum security forcesClick here to read the full article.
Yesterday's decision by the High Court that the JLC (Joint Labour Committee) system for setting wages is unconstitutional has been widely condemned.Among the 200,000 effected by this ruling, the implications for women in Ireland will be serious."Failure to protect...
A journalist has been jailed for a month by a court in northern Sudan after she reported the claim by youth activist Safiya Eshaq that she was raped by Khartoum security forces (see WVoN story).Fatima Ghazali, a reporter at...
Published: Tuesday, July 05, 2011
MORE THAN 50 per cent of working women globally, 600 million, are trapped in insecure jobs without legal protection, according to the first report of the new agency UN Women.A similar number do not have even basic protection against domestic violence,...
Published: Monday, July 04, 2011
Women in Northern Ireland are being driven back into the household by the global recession, according to a new report which likens the current situation to that of the 1950s.The report, 'Women on the Edge of the NI Economy',...
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has today published a report on the fundamental rights of irregular migrants who are employed as domestic workers in the European Union (EU).Most irregular migrants in domestic work are women.The...
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