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Published: Thursday, November 21, 2024
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWC) and Women for Election are calling on general election candidates to commit to increasing women’s representation in the next Dáil term. NWC have highlighted 10 key asks for...
Published: Friday, May 07, 2010
Furthermore, the EWL hereby expresses its hope that the Belgian Presidency will provide during its tenure progressive and ambitious leadership to the Council of the European Union in its policy and legislative tasks, and ensure concrete and significant advances in...
Published: Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Cutting the minimum wage is not the answerA flawed assumption prevails within business, media and political circles that cutting the minimum wage would somehow assist economic recovery and improve competitiveness. For starters this approach will not help create employment. Much...
By Margot Baruch & Keely SwanAs young women working in a feminist and women's human rights organization based in the global North, we attended the 54th session on the UN Commission of the Status of Women and have the following...
Published: Tuesday, April 27, 2010
"Remember the dead, fight for the living."This event was organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions as a ceremony of remembrance and reflection for people who have lost their lives because of their work. In 2009, 43 workers in Ireland...
Published: Saturday, April 24, 2010
Deadline: 5 May 2010Dear EWL members,We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the next EWL Strategic Plan for the period 2011-2015. As a membership-based organisation with more than 2500 Member Organisations, the European Women's Lobby views the contribution of...
Published: Tuesday, April 20, 2010
OUTLAW BARBARIC MUTILATION OF WOMEN, SAYS NWCI.Female genital mutilation (FGM) must be outlawed in Ireland, and it must become an offence to take a child abroad for the purpose of performing FGM on her, according to the National Women's...
Our Members and partners in all things Breast health, Europa Donna Ireland have just won a Crystal Clear Award for health literacy. Their "9 Things you Should Know about Breast Cancer" Leaflet, launched by Minister Mary Harney last October was given...
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...
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...
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%...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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