Submission to Constitutional Review of Electoral Reform

Published: Monday, January 25, 2010

Whether elected or appointed, the overwhelming number of those in positions of decision-making in Ireland are male. With women making up 50 per cent of the Irish population, the figures in this research show an evident deep and systematic inequality. They...

NWCI Response to McCarthy Report

Published: Monday, August 31, 2009

Irish Observatory on Violence Against Women submission to COSC

Published: Saturday, May 31, 2008

The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) is a non-governmental organisation representing women's groups in Ireland. The NWCI currently has 163 member organisations affiliated to it, representing an estimated 500,000 women. As the representative organisation of women in Ireland, the NWCI works...

Submission to the National Carer’s Strategy

Published: Monday, March 31, 2008

Submission to the Department of Social and Family Affairs Consultation Report from the National Women's Council of Ireland to the Inter-departmental Working Group on the National Carers' Strategy 2008

Submission to the Department of Social and Family Affairs to the Technical Review of the Social Welf

Published: Thursday, January 31, 2008

Reforming the social welfare system and ending the unequal treatment of women in the system has been a central goal of the NWCI. In our report 'A Woman's Model for Social Welfare Reform' (2003), and our subsequent campaign, the NWCI clearly...

NWCI Submission to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform In preparation for its 6th Rep

Published: Monday, December 31, 2007

We welcome this important opportunity for women's groups and organisations working on women's equality to feed into the government's 6th report to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee), and to ensure that...

NWCI Submission to the Department of Social and Family Affairs on Proposals for Supporting Lone Pare

Published: Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Reforming the social welfare system and ending the unequal treatment of women in the system has been a key goal of the NWCI. In our report 'A Woman's Model for Social Welfare Reform' (2003), and our subsequent campaign, the NWCI clearly...

NWCI submission to the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform on Domestic Partnership

Published: Friday, March 31, 2006

The National Women's Council of Ireland welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Working Group on Domestic Partnership, established by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform.The call is timely and appropriate given: Recommendations of the...

NWCI response to the Mental Health Commission discussion paper "A Model for Recovery in Irish M

Published: Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Women have a particular experience of mental ill health, and therefore specific mental health needs. In 1997 the Government acknowledged that mental health services do not meet women's needs.2 Women's mental health is affected by various factors relating to women's inequality...

NWCI Submission on the Rural Development Strategy Plan 2007-2013

Published: Saturday, December 31, 2005

The NWCI welcomes this opportunity to make a submission to Ireland's Rural Development Strategy Plan 2007-2013. This rural development strategy will form the basis of the future development of Ireland's rural areas and of Ireland's rural development policies. In light...

NWCI submission on the Irish Governments Discussion document on Immigration and Residence in Ireland

Published: Thursday, July 28, 2005

This submission raises a number of general concerns in relation to the discussion document, outlines some of the features of the feminisation of migration, highlights key principles which we wish to see underpinning any future migration legislation or policy and...

NWCI Submission to the All Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution - The Family

Published: Monday, January 31, 2005

The NWCI advocate using the definition of family as outlined by the United Nations.The technical definition of the family used by the UN is: Any combination of two or more persons who are bound together by ties of mutual...