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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: Sunday, December 04, 2011
On Monday December 12th women from throughout Ireland will meet in Letterkenny to discuss the outcome and potential impact of Budget 2012 on women in Ireland. The meeting being hosted by the National Women's Council of Ireland, The National Collective of...
Safe Ireland, the national organisation for 40 frontline domestic violence services, were received by President Higgins at Áras an Uachtarain today.The visit was an acknowledgement of the work carried out by Safe Ireland and its members in providing support to...
First Safe Ireland Week asks family and friends to know the signs and be informed about how they can help someone living with abuse.Nearly 30% of women attending Safe Ireland domestic violence services said that they had heard about the...
Published: Thursday, December 01, 2011
Women have been turning out in force in the early days of Egypt's parliamentary elections this week, some queuing for as long as seven or eight hours to cast their vote. But there are mounting concerns that the first election...
Mary Makukula was serially abused by her husband for decades. In 2008, his blows were hard enough to knock out her two front teeth.Mary's neighbours, who had closed their eyes and ears to the abuse for years, could no longer...
Human rights groups such as Tanggol Bayi and the Kasimbayan Women's Collective, protested at the Department of Justice in Manila yesterday, to seek justice for the victims of human rights violations.The groups marked International Women Human Rights Defenders Day...
The continuing lack of equality between men and women is the root cause of incidents of domestic and gender related violence, a conference on fighting domestic violence has been told.Council of Europe (CoE) Deputy Secretary-General Maud de Boer-Buquiccio said: ...
Published: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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An award winning journalist has made a 50 minute documentary showing what life is like for Syrian women living in a male-dominated society.Lina Alabed's documentary recently premiered at the third annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar. It centres on...
As several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) elect bodies to write new constitutions, women are looking to expand their rights through legislation.TUNISIA'S newly elected constituent assembly has begun a year-long process of writing a new...
STAFF at West Limerick Resources in Abbeyfeale and Newcastle West, along with local women's support services, family resource centres, student groups and other community organisations are to raise awareness of domestic violence by joining this year's 16 Days of Action campaign...
Activists take steps to reduce male dominance - but critics say more is needed to stop women being 'patronised and policed'At a gathering of Occupy Wall Street activists at a public space in New York on Monday, one young woman...
Published: Sunday, November 27, 2011
SUPPORTING women and children raped and tortured during conflict will be the heart of Ireland's foreign policy, Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore vowed today.The country will champion the cause of those who faced gender-based violence in war zones and developing countries,...
Members of the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) have cautiously welcomed media reports on the findings of the review of the Joint Labour Committee (JLC) process for setting the minimum wage in certain low paid sectors.The EAPN's 2020 Ireland Europe Working...
In 2001, when I was 28, I broke up with my boyfriend. Allan and I had been together for three years, and there was no good reason to end things. He was (and remains) an exceptional person, intelligent, good-looking, loyal, kind. My...
Support for women and children raped and tortured during conflict will be the focus of a new foreign policy initiative, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said today.The Government's new national action plan on women, peace and security aims to increase...
Over the last year thousands of young women have been on their first demonstrations.Some were protesting against rising tuition fees. Some were striking against attacks on their pensions.Many others were taking to the streets on the Slutwalks, Million...
Every year, two million women are added to the 101 million missing women worldwide.Female infanticide, sex selective abortions, rape, domestic violence, acid attacks, bride burning, widow discrimination, trafficking, female genital mutilation, honour killings and forced prostitution are just some of...
To raise awareness of the "16 Days..." campaign, the Domestic Violence Advocacy Service (Sligo, Leitrim & West Cavan) have created a set of 5 cartoons, depicting forms of Domestic Violence and Abuse.Use them in your newsletter, face book page, hang on...
The Pakistani National Assembly has passed a long-awaited women's rights bill which outlaws forced marriage, sexual discrimination and the use of women as a bargaining tool when settling personal and tribal disputes.The practice, knows as Sarwa, degrades women to...
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