The Women's Council Blog
Access to Abortion in Ireland—A Key Human Rights Issue
Posted on February 04, 2010
Access to Abortion in Ireland -- A Key Human Rights Issue
Last week, Human Rights Watch launched our most recent report on women's rights -- "A State of Isolation: Access to Abortion for Women in Ireland". The report was based on interviews and research we conducted in Dublin, Cork, London, Birmingham, and Washington DC in mid 2008. And though the word "abortion" features prominently in the title, the report is about much more than abortion.
It is about the thousands of women who face crisis pregnancies every year in Ireland. And above all, it is about a government that actively sabotages their health.
NWCI Members respond to invitation from Israeli Embassy to Lecture on Migrant Women
Posted on December 17, 2009
The National Women's Council last week circulated to its members the invitation below to an event organized by the Israeli embassy. Several members responded to say that they believed we should not have done so. The following correspondence ensued. Please give us your views:
INVITATION
The Embassy of Israel, Dublin
Invite you to:
"Migrant Women: Sharing the Israeli experience in Migrant absorption"
Lecture by:
- Ms. Joanna Tuffy T.D.
Labour Spokesperson on Environment and Heritage
- Ms. Sylvia Katete Gavigan
Honorary Consul, Republic of Uganda
- Ms. Salome Mbugua
AkiDwA Director
Date: Friday 18th December 2009
Venue: D4 Berkeley Hotel
Donnelly Suite 1, 2nd Floor
Ballsbridge
Dublin 4
Time: 13:00-14:30
Tea & coffee will be served
Please RSVP by Friday 11th December 2009,
by email to: dcmsec@dublin.mfa.gov.il
Susan McKay, New Campaign Against Prostitution
Posted on November 23, 2009
The newly formed Sex Workers Alliance urges us to accept that prostitution is a freely chosen occupation, as viable a way of paying your bills as any other. The Alliance claims it can promote the health, safety and empowerment of those it calls sex workers in what it calls the sex industry. These are not victims, it insists. This view sees the man who uses prostitutes as a person buying a service from a person selling it.
'The choice not to be cared for' - guest blog post from Maman Poulet
Posted on October 19, 2009
Suzy Byrne blogs as Maman Poulet at http://www.mamanpoulet.com/.
The launch of the new NWCI website occurs at the same time as the launch of a new policy document on Who Cares. The invitation to make the inaugural blog post on the new website gives me the opportunity to raise a question on the choice not to be cared for.
As a disabled woman working with other people with disabilities on issues concerning independent living, I have observed how care and the way in which it is spoken about is something which has not been at the centre of the debate towards supporting people with disabilities in achieving choice, empowermet and control of our bodies and our lives.