Published: Sunday, June 17, 2012
Published: Monday, June 11, 2012
IntroductionThe National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) is the national representative organisation of women in Ireland. Our mission is to achieve women's equality, empowering women to work together, while recognising and mobilising difference, in order to remove structural political, economic,...
IntroductionThe NWCI welcomes the opportunity to provide additional comments to our 'Observations on the Review of the National Women's Strategy (NWS) (2007-2016)' which we submitted in July 2010. The Observations and recommendations which we made in July 2010 are still very...
PrinciplesIn setting out these principles we the undersigned organisations support an approach whichplaces Child Income Support within a broader strategy which aims to reduce poverty for all; andwhich focuses on coordinated policy development and implementation designed to achievepositive outcomes for...
Published: Sunday, June 10, 2012
Women's Human Rights AllianceThe Women's Human Rights Alliance (WHRA) was established in 2001 as a coalition of women and women's organizations promoting a women's human rights approach to the advancement of women's equality in Ireland. The Alliance works to promote women's...
The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) is a non-governmental organisation representing women's groups in Ireland. The NWCI currently has 170 member organisations affiliated to it, representing an estimated 500,000 women. As the representative organisation of women in Ireland, the NWCI works...
Published: Wednesday, April 25, 2012
IntroductionThe Women's Human Rights Alliance (WHRA) was established in 2001 as a coalition of human rights and women's organisations promoting a human rights approach to the advancement of women's equality in Ireland and internationally. The purpose of the Alliance is to...
Published: Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Executive summary and key judgements This report is an examination of the cumulative impact of the cuts in spending on the voluntary and community sector in Ireland over 2008-12, specifically examining their effect on employment. The voluntary and community sector...
Published: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The gender pay gap is the difference between men's and women's pay, based on the average difference in gross hourly earnings of all employees.On average, women in the EU earn around 17 % less per hour than men [1]. The gender pay...
Published: Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Ireland's rapid demographic change in the 1990s and in the first decade of the new millennium brought many benefits to this country and a number of real challenges. Immigration is now a permanent and positive reality for Ireland. The make-up...
Published: Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Draft Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic ReviewOn the 6th of October 2011 Ireland was examined for the first time by other UN countries on its human rights record. This process is called the Universal Periodic Review or...
Published: Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Published: Monday, September 19, 2011
The economic recession is effecting women in numerous ways. Greater numbers of women are unemployed and long term unemployed, many families are relying on the wages of women from low paid employment for survival, and it is women who are...
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