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Published: Wednesday, August 28, 2024
NWC says SPHE must be a mandatory subject in order to tackle the root cause of gender-based violence Violence against women is at epidemic levels in Ireland, with Women’s Aid receiving over 40,000 disclosures of domestic abuse in 2023....
Published: Monday, August 22, 2011
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...
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.
Published: Sunday, August 21, 2011
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Published: Thursday, August 18, 2011
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.Responding to calls from the...
Published: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Vera Baird QC, Co-Director of Astraea: Gender Justice (Research and Education), has been looking at recent rape acquittals where the defence was 'sexsomnia'.A relatively new rape defence is that some men can be wholly without responsibility for sexual assaults...
Fancy putting your daughter off her food? Then buy her Maggie Goes on a Diet, a children's book aimed - according to Barnes & Noble, one of the many booksellers on whose website it is currently listed - at six-...
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