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NWCI Blog: Female Powerlifters Take Home the Gold

Published: Monday, January 27, 2014

Arlette Bomahou, whose mother is from Togo, is 38 years of age, competes in the 90kg+ category and lives in Sandyford with her boyfriend Ciaran. She decided to represent the Irish team for the Powerlifting World Championship in Glasgow last month...

Nollaig na mBan publication: Inspiring Women, Inspiring Stories

Published: Monday, January 27, 2014

This publication looks at the lives of 14 Irish women, all daughters, many of them mothers and through their eyes tells how life has changed for women since the Irish people voted by referendum to join the EU...

Women’s Aid is now seeking to employ a full time outreach support worker for one to one support services.

Published: Monday, January 27, 2014

Women's Aid is a leading national organisation that has been working in Ireland to stop domestic violence against women and children since 1974.  We provide support and information through our National Freephone Helpline and one to one support services...

Could 2014 be the year that women are put at the centre of societal change?

Published: Monday, January 27, 2014

On Nollaig na mBan – a day when traditionally women sat back and let men take over housekeeping duties – NWCI's Director, Orla O'Connor had an opinion piece in the Irish Times in which we looked forward and...

WANT TO MAKE A CHANGE? BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY – BECOME A MEMBER TODAY

Published: Tuesday, January 14, 2014

WANT TO MAKE A CHANGE? BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY – BECOME A MEMBER TODAY     Would you like to help make important changes in the lives of women and girls? Do you seek...

Could 2014 be the year that women are put at the centre of societal change?

Published: Monday, January 06, 2014

Today on Nollaig Na mBan- a day when traditionally women sat back and let the men take over the housekeeping duties -  the National Women’s Council of Ireland have asked government and society to look at 2014 as...

Run In The Dark Thank You!

Published: Monday, December 16, 2013

A major thank you for all those who Ran In The Dark with us to raise money for women's equality, and in particular to all those who made donations! Here's to next year!

Presentations to UNSCR 1325 & The Participation and Representation of Women

Published: Monday, December 16, 2013

Presentations were given to UNSCR 1325 & The Participation and Representation of Women by Shirley Graham and Salome Mbugua, who represent NWCI on the Department of Foreign Affairs 1325 monitoring committee. Shirley Graham's presentation Salome Mbugua's presentation

Thanks to all our supporters at the end of a significant 2013!

Published: Monday, December 16, 2013

As we come to the end of 2013 we wanted to share with you some of successes for women that have been achieved by NWCI and all of our supporters in our campaign for women's equality. 2013 has been a significant...

2013 Successes for Women that NWCI and our members helped to create!

Published: Monday, December 16, 2013

As we come to the end of 2013 we wanted to share with you some of successes for women that you helped achieve by being a member of NWCI and supporting in our campaign for women's equality. 2013 has been a...

Investment required in Early Years Startegy

Published: Monday, December 16, 2013

Following the confirmation in a recent Irish Independent/ Today FM Behaviour and Attitudes Survey  that one in four couples feel they are too poor to start a family, National Women’s Council of Ireland is renewing calls for...

NWCI calls on government to make a commitment to get more women on boards

Published: Monday, December 16, 2013

The EU Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of gender quotas for publicly listed boards, and the Irish government must respond regarding what action they will take to promote gender equality in economic decision making.  The vote saw MEPs ...

Terminations for Medical Reasons: NWCI supports women taking case to UN

Published: Monday, December 16, 2013

NWCI fully supports women being forced to take a case to the UN for fundamental rights in the instance of fatal foetal abnormalities.  It is terrible to see yet more women forced to international courts in search of their...

HISTORY presented by Theatre Club

Published: Monday, December 16, 2013

HISTORY is a story about a place. A fourteen acre site in Inchicore called St. Michael’s Estate, and a history that spans the housing of imprisoned 1916 revolutionaries to the building of Ireland’s first social housing in...

The time for the government to take responsibility for Bethany Home neglect and abuse is now

Published: Tuesday, December 10, 2013

NWCI urgently requests the Government reconsider its policy on the survivors of the Bethany Home.   The Sinn Fein’s Private Member’s Motion, being tabled today, seeking apology and redress for surviving women and men of...

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