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Published: Tuesday, July 01, 2025
After 23 years working in the National Women’s Council (NWC), the Director, Orla O’Connor, will step down from her role in the coming months to take up a new position as Executive Director of St...
Published: Thursday, August 12, 2010
New multi-language brochure Child Sexual Abuse Explained (for Concerned Parents) is available free:Preview online here: http://www.abusewatch.eu/CSA_brochure.phpThe brochures (and shipping) are free. Available singly, in packets of 50 or boxes of 400. English, Irish, French, Spanish,...
LYCS is inviting local projects to participate in this image project which will culminate in an exhibition in November. We can't work with each group individually but we can offer support and will pull the exhibition together. The aims of...
The work-camps are designed to enable us all - activists and non-activists, radicals of all ages and people in many different communities, movements and struggles - to find spaces to talk to each other about what we have in common...
Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/SayNoToViolence"One Step Too Far," a campaign video produced by the Welsh Government to tackle the sexist behaviours that lead to violence against women. Every year in the UK 1 million women experience domestic abuse,...
Proceeds from the day will be going to The Women's Fund for Ireland. See details here.
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Reviewing women's political representation in Ireland will be the focus of a conference taking place at UCC next month. UCC Women's Studies in conjunction with the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) will present the one day conference 'Moving in...
Published: Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Madeline Hawke is a member of the Irish Feminist Network
AN 80-YEAR-OLD woman is organising a one-day boycott of Sunday Mass "by the faithful women of Ireland" next month.Jennifer Sleeman from Clonakilty in Cork said she wants "to let the Vatican and the Irish church know that women are...
Anticipating the appointment in the next few weeks of the highest-level United Nations official ever to promote the rights and status of women worldwide, peace advocates are demanding that the new office take on the issue of the unending violence...
Published: Monday, August 09, 2010
Rape is one of the world's greatest peace and security challenges, a senior United Nations official said today, adding that rape in times of conflict remains one of the least-condemned war crimes, leading to impunity for perpetrators.Rape "is not...
The women's rights campaign group yesterday said there was public concern after reports that there was no surveillance planned of the Wicklow sex offender once he walks free in two days' time.NWCI chief executive Susan McKay also said there...
Published: Friday, August 06, 2010
As the debate gathers pace across Europe on the practice of Muslim women wearing headscarves and full-face veils - known as niqab - The Irish Times speaks to five women who wear the niqab in IrelandAISHA CHUCKLES as she tells...
Published: Thursday, August 05, 2010
In 2008, 86% of solo museum exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art were of male artists. It is not that there are no women around. Solo exhibitions by women at IMMA represented 44% of the total in 2004, so there has been...
Senator Ivana Bacik - OPINION: The Senator, who has championed gender quotas in the selection of political candidates, responds to yesterday's Irish Times survey which found that a big majority of women TDs are against the ideaMARY MINIHAN'S survey of...
Published: Tuesday, August 03, 2010
A Malaysian state is to allow Muslim girls under the age of consent of 16 years to wed in a bid to stem unwed pregnancies, angering the country's women's activists and politicians.The Islamic council in the southern Malaysian state of...
The National Women's Council has criticised women TDs who oppose measures to correct the extreme under representation of women in Dail Eireann. "The reasons why so few women make it into political power in Ireland and elsewhere have been well...
Published: Monday, August 02, 2010
Another grim tale by Ciara Moynihan of the Mayo NewsDespite the seasonal upswing, the hotel industry remains in a desperate state. According to an Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) survey conducted this year, 88 per cent of hoteliers were concerned about the...
Published: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
By Susan McKay, CEO of National Women's Council of IrelandOne day last week, in an Irish city, a woman met her husband's psychiatrist. The husband had been violent and abusive towards the woman throughout their marriage. He was attending the...
Published: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The Irish Traveller Movement (ITM) is a national Traveller organisation that promotes the recognition of Travellers as a nomadic ethnic group in Irish society.ITM is recruiting for the following position:Community Development Worker for Co. Cavan. - Full time...
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