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One Family is recruiting participants for our next New Futures programme which is commencing on the 13th September 2010. New Futures is a highly successful career planning and support programme that is accredited by FETAC (Level 4). The course is free of...

UN Women

Published: Tuesday, July 13, 2010

AFTER FOUR years of difficult talks, and 15 years after the landmark Beijing women's conference, the member states of the United Nations have finally agreed to establish an umbrella agency to represent the interests of women. It will be responsible for...

Women’s council seeks justice for Magdalene survivors

Published: Sunday, July 11, 2010

The Irish Times - Monday, July 12, 2010THE NATIONAL Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) is to write to all female TDs, Senators, and local councillors calling on them to support calls for justice for survivors of the Magdalene laundries.Susan McKay,...

State ‘has fostered Traveller apartheid’

Published: Wednesday, July 07, 2010

SOCIETY'S failure to emancipate Travellers must rank as "one of the most serious social embarrassments" in the State's 86 years of independence, a hard-hitting report has claimed.It calls for an end to "informal apartheid" of Traveller people and a radical...

Fine Gael and Labour pledge to review asylum system

Published: Wednesday, July 07, 2010

JAMIE SMYTH Social Affairs Correspondent, Irish TimesFINE GAEL and the Labour Party have pledged to fundamentally review the asylum system and consider allowing asylum seekers to work if they get into Government.Both parties strongly criticised the asylum system at...

Breaking the silence of genital mutilation

Published: Monday, July 05, 2010

The Irish Times - Tuesday, July 6, 2010Greater awareness among healthcare workers in Ireland is needed to help women who have undergone 'female circumcision', writes CATHERINE REILLYA WINNING SMILE fails to conceal 19-year-old Amina's* horrific burden, one that can render her...

The UN General Assembly reached an agreement to promote equality for women

Published: Thursday, July 01, 2010

The UN General Assembly reached an "informal agreement" to establish a single UN body with greater clout to promote equality for women.Jamal Benomar, chief of staff to the General Assembly president, said that the 192-member world body scheduled a...

Recession causes surge in helpline calls as families break up and lose jobs

Published: Wednesday, June 30, 2010

At today's launch of their 2009 Annual Report Karen Kiernan, One Family Director reported that the national askonefamily helpline recorded a 24% increase in calls in 2009 as a direct result of the recession. Commenting on the types of calls received Kiernan said...

Member organisations’s campaigns to introduce National Guidelines for clinical practice in maternity

Published: Monday, June 28, 2010

Dear colleague,Since our last communication regarding our campaign on the issue of informed consent in Irish maternity services, much has happened. We have met with the HSE, received correspondence from Minister Harney, and a meeting is arranged between AIMSI...

Increasing numbers consider abortion ‘because of recession’

Published: Sunday, June 27, 2010

Women in increasing numbers are considering terminating pregnancies as a consequence of the recession, according to Dublin's Well Woman Centre.Chief executive Alison Begas said yesterday that up to one in five of the 2,000 of so women who presented to...

FIRST AFRICAN WOMAN AND FIRST TRAVELLER ELECTED TO THE BOARD OF THE NWCI

Published: Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Salome Mbugua, CEO of the African & Migrant women's network, AkiDwA, was today elected as deputy chairperson of the National Women's Council at the organisations annual general meeting in Dublin today. Tessa Collins, domestic violence co-ordinator with Pavee Point, was...

Palestinian women under occupation

Published: Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Stephen Lendman comments on a report, published earlier this year entitled, "Am I Not a Human (2): The Suffering of the Palestinian Woman under the Israeli Occupation" Lendman outlines the heartbreaking atrocities that many women have had to endure to have...

UNSCR 1325 Irish National Action Plan Process

Published: Saturday, June 19, 2010

As the 10th anniversary approaches of the historic UN Security Council Resolution on women, peace and security (UN SCR 1325), civil society groups launch a Best Practice Guide and call on Government to develop an effective and inclusive Irish National Action...

Cut in lone-parent payment smacks of the jackboot

Published: Friday, June 11, 2010

No matter how the Government spins it, this proposal will hit the weakest in society, writes Jerome ReillyAt first impression, the Government's plan to abolish One-Parent Family Payments once the youngest child reaches 13 years has the heavy stamp of the...

Susan McKay Speech at the Dublin Writers Festival on 5 June 2010