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Published: Thursday, February 12, 2015
Did you know? • More than 25,000 people are employed in the Early Childhood sector • The average rate of pay in the sector is...
Published: Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Young women don't need to be in a 'domestic' relationship to experience abuse. Ahead of Valentine’s Day 2015, Women’s Aid is launching its national public awareness campaign targeting young women experiencing abuse and violence in dating...
Published: Tuesday, February 10, 2015
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) today issued its full support for Deputy Clare Daly’s Bill to allow for terminations in cases where there is a fatal foetal abnormality, and called on all TDs to...
Published: Thursday, February 05, 2015
NWCI welcomes today’s launch of the online portal, www.stateboards.ie, as well as the new guidelines, as part of the broad reforms of the process of appointments to State Boards. Louise Glennon, Women in Leadership Officer at...
Published: Wednesday, February 04, 2015
The Tanaiste announced the membership of the Pensions Council this morning and there was some good news; the Council was gender balanced with the appointment of four women and three men. However it is important to highlighted key issues...
Published: Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Read our submission to the Working Group on Seanad Reform. Following an open call from the Working Group, NWCI made a submission calling on the Working Group to take the lead on political reform in Ireland and make the Seanad...
Published: Thursday, January 29, 2015
As many of the world’s economic decision makers recently gathered in Davos, Oxfam International published a shocking report on Wealth: Having it all and wanting more which highlighted that at current rates the combined wealth of the richest 1...
Published: Monday, January 26, 2015
Competence and capacity to do the job are the main points to consider when making an appointment to a State Board; appearance should not come into it. A clear and transparent process is critical. Yesterdays’ news of notes being...
Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR), the National Women’s Council of Ireland, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Amnesty International (Ireland) called on the government to honour the promise it made to Magdalene survivors in June 2013, to implement...
Are you interested in being a board member and having your say in the decision making processes that govern some of our state bodies? Then www.stateboards.ie want to hear from you. In November 2014, the Department of Public...
NWCI welcomed new proposals to make childcare more affordable but we urged the Government to take action now rather than setting up another cross-departmental committee. Action on making quality childcare more accessible and affordable is long-overdue. Parents, particularly mothers can...
NWCI have welcomed the government’s plan to introduce two weeks paid paternity leave but highlighted that it will be equally important to introduce paid parental leave. This is an issue which NWCI have long campaigned for -...
National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) wants to hear voices and experiences of women and men including women and men who are transgender in accessing health services and get feedback on the HSE maternity services charter. NWCI is...
Women's Aid are are recruiting for a Communications and Campaigns Assistant (Part-time, temporary, 12 hours per week over 3 mornings, spread across the week including Mon or Tue, 6 month contract). Women’s Aid is currently seeking an individual with a...
Women can stop cervical cancer before it starts by availing of free smear tests. Each year, approximately 300 women are newly diagnosed with cervical cancer and over 90 lives are lost. However, well-organised screening programmes, such as CervicalCheck, have proven effective in...
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