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Published: Thursday, May 29, 2025
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) is seeking tenders from qualified individuals or organisations to conduct a research project entitled “When Women Lead: Evidence from Ireland on Gender-Responsive Policy Outcomes.” This study will examine how...
Published: Tuesday, April 03, 2012
LISTENING TO any of the Republic's major current affairs radio programmes, one could be forgiven for thinking that women, by and large, are not interested in the news or have nothing interesting to say on the serious topics of our...
Local woman Catherine Cooke, Co-ordinator of Foyle Women's Information Network, has recently returned from Vienna in Austria, where she was invited to speak on a global platform on the role of Northern Irish Women. The trip highlighted how the empowerment...
04 April 2012The NWCI welcomes the move by the Council of Europe to question the Irish government on what interim measures it has in place to respond to women with life threatening pregnancies, while the government ponders over the implementation the 2010...
Published: Monday, April 02, 2012
IRELAND HAS CLIMBED two places in the World Economic Forum's gender equality league table to sixth place.The Global Gender Gap Report measures equality in the areas of politics, education, employment and health.Ireland still ranks behind Iceland, Norway, Finland,...
Published: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Soroptimist International Dublin are holding a fundraising Late lunch in Howth Yacht Club, Howth on Sunday 22nd April .The proceeds will be in aid of Safe Ireland, the only national organisation for domestic violence services in Ireland www.safeireland.ie ...
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION has been banned in Ireland.A bill outlawing the practice was passed by the Seanad this afternoon having already gone through all the stages in the Dáil.As well as prohibiting the practice, the new legislation...
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meets every year for two weeks to review progress on implementation of the Fourth World Conference on Women's Beijing Platform for Action adopted in 1995. The theme of this year's review was ...
"DO YOU KNOW what it's like to represent a billion human beings every day you walk out of your house? To be looked at as the representative of an entire world religion?"A world religion?"Do you know what that's...
Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich, a feminist literary figure celebrated as much for deeply personal reflections on her own life as for sometimes-biting social commentary, has died at age 82, family members said on Wednesday.Rich, who received a galaxy of...
ALEX GARITAThu, 22 Mar, 2012 The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meets every year for two weeks to review progress on implementation of the Fourth World Conference on Women's Beijing Platform for Action adopted in 1995. The theme of this...
Published: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Published: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Wednesday 18th April, 2012.Ramada Hotel, Bray, Co Wicklow9:00 a.m. Registration9.30 a.m. Session 1: "A Total indifference to Our Dignity- Older People's Understanding of Elder Abuse" Mr. Robin Webster, CEO Age Action IrelandQuestions and Answers10.45 a.m. Coffee Break11.15 a...
Sonas Housing Association provides support housing and refuge to women and children made homeless because of domestic and gender based violence.The main purpose of this post is to:Further develop and establish the Sonas specialist domestic violence visiting support...
Minister Kathleen Lynch will launch the DVD "Sexual Abuse and Older Women 2011" which was produced in a joint collaboration between OWN and the Rape Crisis Network and granted aided by COSC.The launch will take place on 11.30 am on Wed...
A really quick update for you. This month, the Academy was invited to join the prestigious European Association for Distance Learning (EADL). This body has member colleges in 22 European countries offering 5,000 distance-learning courses to 2.5 million students all over Europe.There...
The 'International Initiative to Promote Women's Right to Social Security and Protection' is a 4 part webinar series.Day One April 19, 201210:00 - 12:00 EST"Current Situation : UN Perspective"Emmanuelle St-Pierre Guilbault (ILO), Maya Stern Plaza (ILO), Prof Frances Raday (Israel), Maria Virginia...
One Family (www.onefamily.ie) is Ireland's leading organisation for one-parent families. We provide expert support to people parenting alone or sharing parenting and their children through our services, our life-long learning and welfare to work programmes. We are compiling...
The quotas bill is in the Dáil again. It seems like a good time to ask ourselves this burning question...what kind of Ireland can we look forward to when we elect more women?If you want to see...
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