Sign Up to News Join NWCI
Category: News
Published: Friday, November 28, 2025
Housing solutions are core to ending violence against women. This is a key finding of a major new report by the National Women's Council launched today (28th November) which shows the need to clearly recognise this mutually reinforcing relationship...
Published: Sunday, November 13, 2011
The family of a woman in Bahrain, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for playing revolutionary songs, are concerned for her health.Fadhila Al Mubarak, who is 38-years-old, was convicted in May at a secret military trial. The woman...
Published: Thursday, November 10, 2011
Date: Tuesday 22 NovemberTime: 6.30-8.30pmPlace: EU House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2This meeting will look at how the introduction of gender quotas might impact the political landscape in Ireland, what changes (if any) political parties will have to make, and whether...
Published: Wednesday, November 09, 2011
This week's clip from Amnesty addresses women's issues in Saudi Arabia. Although women are supposedly allowed to vote in the next municipal election the 'guardian' system could easily prevent them from doing so because women need their guardian's permission to...
In a rusting filing cabinet I have thousands of letters. I don't know why I keep them. Some are lovely, some funny, but most are hate mail. A letter addressed to "Suzzanne [sic] Moore, Stupid Woman Columnist" can still reach...
Slapper, tart, floozy -- there are any number of derogatory words for women that could earn someone a stinging jaw. Until now, though, 'Mademoiselle' was unlikely to be one of them.Coming from a Frenchman, the retro term is likely...
Eóin Murray, the "Where are the Women" Project Co-ordinator, spoke on the subject of gender qoutas with Joanna Tuffy on the Right Hook, Wednesday 9th November.The project, co-ordinated by Eóin, is aimed at getting more women into...
Please support Friends of the Women's Therapy Centre Ladies Lunch fundraiser on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It will take place at the very elegant Cruzzo Restaurant at Malahide Marina on November 25th with a Guest...
Published: Tuesday, November 08, 2011
This year Longford Women's Link have entered the video they used as part of last year's 16 Days of Action Opposing Violence Against Women. It's a video asking people to stop and think about domestic violence. Please support it by voting...
Feminist Open Forum Panel Discussion Thursday December 8th 2011 at 7.30pm The Ireland Institute (near Trinity Hotel), Pearse Street, Dublinwith Sinead Pentony, Head of Policy, TASC Orla O'Connor, Head of Policy, National Women's Council of Ireland Sara Burke, Journalist, health policy...
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family..... (Article 25: The United Nations universal declaration of human rights) The Seven Towers Residents Group works in the New Lodge...
Published: Sunday, November 06, 2011
Crude insults, aggressive threats and unstinting ridicule: it's business as usual in the world of website news commentary - at least for the women who regularly contribute to the national debate.The frequency of the violent online invective - or ...
Today's young women still face a fight for equality with men, writes Judy King.'Embrace the F-word.'' It's probably not the phrase students, parents and teachers expect to hear from a former principal and guest speaker at their year 12...
Demonstrators gathered in Earls Court, west London, as the Miss World contest returned for its 60th anniversary show.The event is still watched by an estimated one billion people around the world, involving women from 113 countries.Kat Banyard, founder of...
Colombia has been ravaged by an armed conflict lasting for almost 50 years.Paramilitary and guerrilla groups, drug traffickers and corrupt police have been trying to silence, by any means necessary, those journalists unwilling to be bribed to look the other...
Published: Thursday, November 03, 2011
President elect Michael D Higgins has a long and distinguished track record of supporting women's rights as he showed in his responses to the NWCI's questionnaire in advance of the election. See below for the NWCI questionnaire and Michael D's...
Published: Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Are women great at running the country? You bet.Four monarchs were voted into the top 25 of the BBC's Greatest Britons of all time. Three of them - Elizabeth I, Victoria and Elizabeth II - were female. Alfred the Great...
Published: Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Following the success of our Cavan Members Meeting in association with Breffni Bells, you can now access the excellent presentations given by our panel of experts by clicking on the appropriate links below.To access Grainne Healy's presentation, click here.....
Published: Monday, October 31, 2011
IN SEPTEMBER, the World Bank published World Report 2012 - Gender Equality and Development. It highlighted both significant progress in areas like education, and "sticky areas" that are stubbornly slow to improve. One of these "sticky areas" is what it calls ...
It's silly to get upset about awards ceremonies, we all know that. Every award, from the Turner prize to the Oscars, is just the result of four or five people getting together in a room, eating curly sandwiches, disagreeing with...
Published: Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Community and Voluntary Pillar of Social Partnership, of which NWCI is a member, had a meeting this week with the Minister for Finance Mr. Michael Noonan and Mr. Brendan Howlin, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The NWCI used...
Page 20 of 32 pages ‹ First < 18 19 20 21 22 > Last ›
