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Cheering Civil Rights

Published: Saturday, August 21, 2010

In a colourful display of solidarity, 3,000 gay, lesbian and bisexual people marched through the heart of Dublin to demand civil rights for same sex marriage. The march, organised by LBGT group Noise, took place on Sunday and ran from Dublin...

Good Intentions Are Not Enough, say 67 anti-poverty organisations

Published: Thursday, August 19, 2010

One month ahead of crucial UN Summit, NGOs urge the Government to publish a plan to deliver on Ireland's aid commitments.The 67 anti-poverty groups and NGOs in the "Act Now on 2015" campaign have called on the Government to urgently publish...

Women will have to wait 50 years for pay equality

Published: Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Women managers will wait more than 50 years before their salaries are the same as their male counterparts, according to a new study today.The pay of female bosses rose by 2.8% in the last 12 months, but they earned £10,000 less on average...

40 years down, many more to go

Published: Tuesday, August 17, 2010

By Madeline HawkeAs 400 women and men flooded into the Kilbride suite of the Ormonde Hotel on Friday evening in Kilkenny, it was clear to see that feminism has not lost it's appeal. "40 years of feminism: A discussion on where we...

Conference to explore lack of women in politics

Published: Thursday, August 12, 2010

Reviewing women's political representation in Ireland will be the focus of a conference taking place at UCC next month. UCC Women's Studies in conjunction with the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) will present the one day conference 'Moving in...

Come and enjoy an evening of Jazz with Madeline

Published: Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Madeline Hawke is a member of the Irish Feminist Network

Monk’s mother calls on women to join one-day boycott of Mass

Published: Wednesday, August 11, 2010

AN 80-YEAR-OLD woman is organising a one-day boycott of Sunday Mass "by the faithful women of Ireland" next month.Jennifer Sleeman from Clonakilty in Cork said she wants "to let the Vatican and the Irish church know that women are...

UN Women Agency Must Confront Wartime Violence

Published: Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Anticipating the appointment in the next few weeks of the highest-level United Nations official ever to promote the rights and status of women worldwide, peace advocates are demanding that the new office take on the issue of the unending violence...

UN official decries ‘overlooked’ crime of rape during conflict

Published: Monday, August 09, 2010

Rape is one of the world's greatest peace and security challenges, a senior United Nations official said today, adding that rape in times of conflict remains one of the least-condemned war crimes, leading to impunity for perpetrators.Rape "is not...

Risk to society from brutal rapist ‘underestimated’

Published: Monday, August 09, 2010

The women's rights campaign group yesterday said there was public concern after reports that there was no surveillance planned of the Wicklow sex offender once he walks free in two days' time.NWCI chief executive Susan McKay also said there...

Beyond the Veil

Published: Friday, August 06, 2010

As the debate gathers pace across Europe on the practice of Muslim women wearing headscarves and full-face veils - known as niqab - The Irish Times speaks to five women who wear the niqab in IrelandAISHA CHUCKLES as she tells...

Guerrilla Girls Take On Irish Arts Exclusion of Women

Published: Thursday, August 05, 2010

In 2008, 86% of solo museum exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art were of male artists. It is not that there are no women around. Solo exhibitions by women at IMMA represented 44% of the total in 2004, so there has been...

idea of "quotas" for women in politics,

Published: Thursday, August 05, 2010

Senator Ivana Bacik - OPINION: The Senator, who has championed gender quotas in the selection of political candidates, responds to yesterday's Irish Times survey which found that a big majority of women TDs are against the ideaMARY MINIHAN'S survey of...

Malaysia state backs child marriage

Published: Tuesday, August 03, 2010

A Malaysian state is to allow Muslim girls under the age of consent of 16 years to wed in a bid to stem unwed pregnancies, angering the country's women's activists and politicians.The Islamic council in the southern Malaysian state of...

"NATIONAL WOMEN’S COUNCIL SLAMS "I’M ALRIGHT JILL" ATTITUDES AMONG WOMEN POLITICIANS.

Published: Tuesday, August 03, 2010

The National Women's Council has criticised women TDs who oppose measures to correct the extreme under representation of women in Dail Eireann. "The reasons why so few women make it into political power in Ireland and elsewhere have been well...

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