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Vacancies at the European Institute for Gender Equality

Published: Sunday, April 29, 2012

The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is currently seeking to receive applications from appropriately qualified professionals for the post of (i) Information & Communications Officer (Temporary Agent) and (ii) Seconded National Expert (Communications). The place of work is Vilnius,...

Affordable Childcare for All by 2014: Wishing Won’t Get Us There, Minister

Published: Monday, April 23, 2012

Dublin, 24 April 2012 - The three organisations behind the 7 Is Too Young campaign have said that they continue to have grave concerns about changes to the One Parent Family Payment as set out in Section 4 of the Social Welfare and Pensions...

Three out of four GPs favour ‘limited abortion’

Published: Monday, April 23, 2012

Three out of four GPs are in favour of "limited abortion" becoming legal in Ireland, while medical opinion on whether travelling abroad for the procedure risks a woman's health is now split 40:60.The findings are contained in a survey on...

Mullen insists abortion conversation ‘entirely courteous on my side’

Published: Monday, April 23, 2012

Independent Senator Rónán Mullen has described as ""inaccurate and misleading" reports on his recent conversation with a group of women who spoke to Oireachtas members on their experiences of travelling for abortion due to fatal foetal abnormalities.Senator...

OPEN, Barnardos and the National Women’s Council of Ireland welcome Joan Burton’s acknowledgement

Published: Wednesday, April 18, 2012

OPEN, Barnardos and the National Women's Council of Ireland have welcomed Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton's, acknowledgment that lone parents should not lose the One Parent Family Payment when their youngest child reaches the age of 7 unless a comprehensive...

National Women’s Council of Ireland urges TDs to support legislation on abortion

Published: Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The NWCI welcomes the tabling of legislation on abortion to give effect to the X case in the Dail this evening by Clare Daly TD by way of the Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life...

Oireachtas members to meet women critical of abortion rules

Published: Tuesday, April 17, 2012

MEMBERS OF the Oireachtas will be invited to discuss issues related to abortion at an event organised by the National Women's Council of Ireland in Leinster House this afternoon.A spokeswoman for the council said the politicians would be able...

Law on abortion ‘cruel, unfair, and needs to change’

Published: Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Women forced to have an abortion abroad because their unborn baby had abnormalities will tell politicians today that the law is cruel, unfair, and needs to change.Four women have gone public on their situation to highlight what they believe...

7 is Too Young

Published: Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Passing the Social Welfare Bill in its current format will push more one-parent families into poverty. OPEN, Barnardos and the National Women's Council of Ireland have expressed serious concerns that proposed changes to the One Parent Family Payment in the...

‘I believe in a loving God and that I won’t be damned for what I did’

Published: Monday, April 16, 2012

THE PHOTOGRAPH OF the four calm, young women on this page tells us little of what had gone before. They were tired and under stress. Three had been in tears. One had taken a 5am train from the south into...

New partnership between EU and UN Women to enhance gender equality worldwide

Published: Sunday, April 15, 2012

Brussels, 16 April 2012 - A new partnership between the EU and UN Women set up to strengthen cooperation between the two organizations on their work on empowering women and gender equality, was today signed by High Representative for Foreign Affairs and...

‘Minister, I’m 7. Who’s going to mind me?’ Statement by OPEN, Barnardos and the National Women’s Cou

Published: Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Press Release OPEN, Barnardos and the National Women's Council of Ireland have expressed serious concern at proposals to change the One Parent Family Payment (OPFP) outlined in the Social Welfare Bill, published today. The three organisations said that measures in...

NATIONAL WOMEN’S COUNCIL OF IRELAND INVITATION TO REQUEST FOR TENDER. To identify gender equality is

Published: Wednesday, April 11, 2012

1. Aim of the Project- To identify gender equality issues for women in the social welfare system who will be activated under the new Single Age Working Payment (SWAP) and the new National Employment and Entitlements Service (NEES) under the Department...

Campaign groups vow to fight one-parent family cutbacks

Published: Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Lone parents are being attacked out of the blue and new social welfare rules which will see the one-parent family payment paid only up to the age of seven will be "opposed vehemently", campaign groups say.By 2015, all lone parents...

Feminists hail explosion in new grassroots groups

Published: Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Dozens of new organisations are springing up around the UK, campaigning on issues from lads' mags to benefit cuts.It was the lads' mags - with semi-naked women in suggestive poses on their covers - being sold at eye level...

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