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Published: Friday, November 15, 2024
Gender Quota leads to record number of women running in General Election 2024 Ahead of the close of nominations for the General Election tomorrow (16th November), the National Women’s Council (NWC) today (15th November) welcomed the record number of...
Published: Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Speakeasy is a training program designed to provide parents with an opportunity to develop skills, knowledge and confidence in talking to their children about relationships and sexuality. The programme is being delivered by the Irish Family Planning Association in partnership...
One Family welfare to work services facilitates a bridging process is to make possible career progressions of lone parents into education, skill development and employment. The focus will be on engagement mentoring and coaching to progress according to their career...
Every hour in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, 48 women are raped - around 1,100 a day (see WVoN coverage).And many women have lost husbands and families to the ongoing violence in the country.To be a...
A coroner has reopened an inquiry into the death of a Manchester mother who had warned police that her husband would kill her.Sabina Akhtar,26, was stabbed to death by her taxi driver husband Malik Mannan just four days after...
Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News would like to know where the women were in the Libyan revolution.She has identified their presence in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, but not in this particular instance of the Arab spring.Well, back in...
Published: Monday, August 29, 2011
Victims of domestic violence - often too frightened to tell anyone about their suffering - are to get their own e-mail forum.Victims of domestic violence - often too frightened to tell anyone about their suffering - are to get...
Published: Sunday, August 28, 2011
THREE TIMES MORE women and children in Ireland are homeless because of domestic violence since last year, according to a new study.The domestic violence charity Sonas Housing has reported a 163 per cent increase in the use of its services...
Published: Thursday, August 25, 2011
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.
AkiDwA, the African and Migrant Women's Network, in association with Dublin City Council Invites you to the launch of photo exhibition MIGRANT WOMEN TRANSFORMING IRELANDDate: 12 September 2011Time: 11 am-1pmVenue: Exchange Dublin, Exchange Street Upper, Temple Bar, Dublin 2While integration is...
Launch of an organisation/inauguration of African women is diasporia initiativeSpecial Guest Speakers will include Dr. Maura Adshead, Uiniversity of Limerick, Liz Price, Limerick Women's Network and Salome Mbugua, Akidwa. The Event Facilitator is Eidin Nishe, University of Limerick.Admission...
SIPTU are pleased to announce a series of regional forums entitled "Building a Strong Union Voice & Defending the Community Sector". The purpose of these forums is to discuss the current and imminent threats facing the community sector and how...
DOOR TO WORK - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!AkiDwA's pilot work experience programme, launched in January 2011, has been successfully completed. AkiDwA, network of migrant women living in Ireland, is running the work experience programme again and registration for the next programme...
Dublin Nollywood Film Festival are pleased to announce the premier of The Mirror Boy and The Impostor.Date: 22nd SeptemberVenue: Screen Cinema, Townsend Street.To buy tickets, contact 087 0966 766/01 671 3639 or mail nollywood@dublin.ie. Tickets cost €10 and are also available on...
AkiDwA would like to cordially invite you to attend their 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...
Published: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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...
Published: Monday, August 22, 2011
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...
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,...
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...
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 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...
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