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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: Monday, August 22, 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.
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-...
Published: Tuesday, August 16, 2011
It will take 70 years to achieve parity between men and women in the country's top jobs, according to a report released today by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.The survey Sex and Power 2011, dubbed a "call to arms" by...
Equality and Human Rights Commission finds advance towards equality is tortuously slow and subject to frequent reverses.More than 5,400 women are missing from Britain's 26,000 most powerful posts, according to a new report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.The...
UK Feminista's 'suffragette school' gave budding activists the tools they need to build a fairer world.School's out for 500 activists as they graduated yesterday from UK Feminista's second summer school. With interest in feminism sparking across the UK, this weekend's ...
Published: Monday, August 15, 2011
CALLS to a rape crisis helpline rose by almost a fifth last year as it was forced to cut its budget by 20%.Galway Rape Crisis Centre (GRCC) heard from 621 people in 2010, up from 518 the previous year, many who have waited...
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