Published: Thursday, August 31, 2006
The purpose of this handbook is to assist women's groups develop an achievable strategy for change. It is intended as a guide to effective lobbying of decision-makers in Ireland and is designed to build the capacity of women's groups across...
Published: Tuesday, July 25, 2006
While gender affects the health of both men and women, there are significant health consequences of discrimination against women in nearly every society. Poverty, unequal power relations between women and men, and unequal access to resources, are powerful barriers to...
Published: Saturday, December 31, 2005
Prepared for the Joint Project Coordinated by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) and the European Women's Lobby (EWL) on Promoting Preventative Measures to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings for Sexual Exploitation: A Swedish and United States Governmental and...
Published: Wednesday, August 31, 2005
There is a growing commitment,both in EU countries and internationally,to recastfamily and childcare policies,in an effortto make them more supportive of,and accessible to, diverging groups of families in today's society.Recognition of the vital role of...
Published: Sunday, October 31, 2004
The NGO Alliance consists of over 40 independent Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO's) working on the ground in Ireland on issues such as anti-racism, community development, and human rights, all of whom have a common interest in the prevention of racial discrimination, and...
The NGO Alliance consists of over 40 independent Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working in Ireland on issues such as anti-racism, community development, and human rights. All of the groups have a common interest in the prevention of racial dis- crimination, and in...
Published: Friday, April 30, 2004
A national prevalence study on the extent of violence against women within intimate relationships in Ireland was carried out in 1995 that demonstrated that 18% of women had experienced domestic violence. This number doubled to 36% when women in doctors' surgeries in one...
Published: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
The In From the Margin (IFM) projecthas been innovative in grounding the policy work of the organisation, in the lived experience of women most disadvantaged in Irish society; including low income and working class women, women from ethnic minority groups...
Published: Monday, March 31, 2003
The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) commissioned this research because of its concern that the social welfare system continues to deny women full independence. Even now, in 2003, the system reinforces a notion of women as adult dependants, rather than...
Published: Tuesday, December 31, 2002
Do we have a right to care? Why should women's unpaid caring work be valued? What implications are there for women if their caring work is not valued? What can be done to value caring work?In recent years, the...
Published: Thursday, October 31, 2002
Whether elected or appointed, the overwhelming number of those in positions of decision-making in Ireland are male. With women making up 50 per cent of the Irish population, the figures in this research show an evident deep and systematic inequality. They...
Published: Wednesday, October 31, 2001
This study is centrally concerned with the women's community and voluntary sector. More specifically,it is concerned with identifying a strategy for supporting the sector.Many locally- based women's organisations were established to promote women's community education.Local women's groups...
Published: Sunday, December 31, 2000
In January 1999, the National Women's Council of Ireland initiated Women Mapping the New Millennium, a national research, analysis and action study. The research focused on six key areas of enquiry: women and local development, health, work, education, violence against women...
In January 1999, the National Women's Council of Ireland initiated Women Mapping the New Millennium, a national research, analysis and action study. The research focused on six key areas of enquiry: women and work, health, poverty, education, violence against women and...
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