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Legislation to criminalise the purchase of sex is key to ending violence against women

Published: Wednesday, March 26, 2025

The National Women’s Council (NWC) today (26th March 2025) welcomed the long-awaited publication of the Review of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 and highlighted the important role of the legislation in achieving a zero tolerance approach...

30 years after Beijing, progress on women’s rights and equality is under threat

Published: Tuesday, March 18, 2025

30 years ago, 189 governments from across the world signed the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which became the most comprehensive and visionary agenda ever for gender equality and the human rights of all women and girls. Marking Beijing’s 3...

Survivor voices are key to tackling violence against women

Published: Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Marking the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action at the CSW in New York next week, the National Women’s Council (NWC) and the Irish Consortium on Gender Based Violence will hold an event ‘GBV Survivors...

Women must be key architects of Ireland’s future

Published: Thursday, March 06, 2025

Since the Brexit referendum in 2016, conversations about the constitutional future of the island of Ireland have gained momentum. In this pivotal time, women must be key architects of Ireland’s future and the crucial issues they are facing, such...

All Aboard – Public transport must be accessible to all

Published: Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Most of our trips in Ireland are taken by car, but 68% of all trips are for distances of less than 10km. (National Household Travel Survey (2023) Providing active and public transport is key to tackling the climate emergency but to achieve...

Mary McAleese chairs Women’s Assembly on future of the island of Ireland

Published: Tuesday, February 11, 2025

50 women thought leaders from across the island of Ireland gathered in Dublin today (Tuesday, 11th February) to explore and elevate women’s perspectives on the future of the island of Ireland through a feminist lens. The gathering was the...

Missing women will impact the quality of our political decision

Published: Friday, February 07, 2025

The National Women’s Council (NWC) today (7th February) welcomed the nomination of 7 women by the Taoiseach to the Seanad as a step to address women’s underrepresentation in our Oireachtas. However, the overall picture...

WMHN to shine light on how physical health conditions can adversely impact women’s mental health

Published: Thursday, January 30, 2025

On Wednesday, 29 January, the Women’s Mental Health Network, a collaboration between St Patrick’s Mental Health Services and the National Women’s Council (NWC), is hosting an event to explore the intersection between long-term physical health...

National Women’s Council expresses disappointment at gender imbalance in Irish Government

Published: Thursday, January 30, 2025

The National Women’s Council (NWC) today expressed its deep disappointment at the significant gender imbalance in the new Government. There are only six women amongst the record number of 23 Junior Ministers. This follows the decision to decrease the...

Public childcare must be a priority for the next Government

Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Alliance of over 40 organisations reminds newly elected TDs of their election promises 18th December 2024 Under the slogan ‘All we want for Christmas is public childcare’, the campaign alliance, Together for Public, gathered outside Leinster House today (Wednesday, 18th...

Call for gender quotas at local level and at Cabinet

Published: Friday, December 13, 2024

The Gender Quotas Alliance has written to all new TDs, party leaders, and General Secretaries to call for urgent action on women’s representation in politics. The alliance, which is led by the National Women’s Council (NWC)...

Pension auto-enrolment fails to tackle inequality in our pension system for women

Published: Wednesday, December 11, 2024

While the forthcoming pension auto-enrolment scheme will increase pension coverage, it will not address the structural inequalities faced by women in our pension system and may even make them worse. This is one of the key findings of a new...

A warm home should not be a luxury: Feminist Communities for Climate Justice hosts webinar on energy

Published: Thursday, December 05, 2024

Feminist Communities for Climate Justice (FCCJ) – a joint project between the National Women’s Council (NWC) and Community Work Ireland (CWI) – today (5th December) hosted a webinar Safe, Warm, Green: Towards Energy Justice that highlighted the gendered...

No breakthrough for women in General Election 2024

Published: Monday, December 02, 2024

No breakthrough for women in General Election 2024 National Women’s Council calls for Local Election gender quotas to ensure pipeline for women into politics Press Release, 2nd December 2024 Responding to the results of the...

Women’s organisations call for cross-border cooperation to tackle domestic violence

Published: Tuesday, November 26, 2024

National Women’s Council and Women’s Aid Federation NI launch new report examining the issue of domestic violence across the island 26 November Today (26 November) the National Women’s Council (NWC) and Women’s Aid...

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