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Published: Thursday, February 29, 2024
NWC submits that the state should move away from the aspects of the social protection system which are based on dependent payments such as the Increase for a Qualified Adult (IQA), towards a fully individualised social protection system where each...
Published: Friday, October 13, 2023
Budget 2024 has significant positive elements for women, including investment in childcare and funding to tackle violence against women, an extension of child benefit and free secondary school books. However, it is a short-term budget that will not advance gender equality,...
Published: Tuesday, October 03, 2023
Budget 2024 presents the Government with an extraordinary opportunity to invest in a future for Ireland which is sustainable, just, caring and fair – a future where the state leads in tackling gender inequalities head-on, and one in which no woman is...
Published: Sunday, October 01, 2023
NWC Submission to the Task Force on Safe Participation in Political Life
Published: Monday, September 25, 2023
Final audited accounts for the National Women's Council of Ireland 2022
Published: Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Published: Wednesday, May 24, 2023
The National Womens Council and its members have developed this document outlining the key challenges and solutions for women in rural Ireland to ensure every woman enjoys true equality and no woman is left behind.
Published: Wednesday, April 12, 2023
NWC welcomes the invitation to make a submission on the Draft General Scheme of a DSGBV Agency Bill. Previous submissions, such as NWC Submission on the Third National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence and the National Observatory Shadow...
Published: Monday, February 13, 2023
NWC welcomes the invitation to make a submission on the next iteration of the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme. Women’s interests and concerns cut across the full range of community and economic initiatives that are delivered through SICAP....
Published: Tuesday, February 07, 2023
NWC welcomes the invitation to make a submission on the REVIEW OF CIVIL LEGAL AID SCHEME. In 2021, NWC made 2 submissions to the Family Justice Oversight Group1 and the Third National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence that addressed some...
Published: Thursday, December 08, 2022
The National Women’s Council welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment’s brief and background paper for the redevelopment of the Senior Cycle Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) curriculum which is...
Published: Friday, December 02, 2022
Read the shadow report to GREVIO in respect of Ireland from the National Observatory on Violence Against Women and Girls. The Observatory is chaired and hosted by the National Women's Council
Published: Tuesday, October 25, 2022
The National Women's Council submission on the General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022.
The National Women’s Council is calling on the Government to deliver on a new era for women’s reproductive healthcare and adopt a holistic approach to women’s needs across her lifespan. This new report 'Every Woman – Towards Reproductive...
Published: Monday, October 17, 2022
NWC welcomes the opportunity to provide evidence to the Oireachtas Health Committee on the new Government-sponsored Safe Access Zones Bill. At NWC, we believe this Bill represents the swiftest way to protect staff, service-users and the wider community, from ongoing...
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