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CLAIMING OUR FUTURE at the RDS

Published: Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Ireland is at a critical moment. You can help turn this crisis into a positive turning point. Claiming our Future is a unique event. It offers a chance for people, trade unions, community organisations, environmental groups and other civil society...

Protest Gathering

Published: Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The Executive Council of Congress has organised a protest gathering to take place outside of Leinster House (Kildare Street entrance), onWednesday 29thSeptember between 1-2pm (assemble at 12.30pm outside Anglo Irish Bank, Stephen's Green), as part of the ETUC day...

Former Chilean President to Head New High-Profile UN Women’s Agency

Published: Monday, September 13, 2010

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today named former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet to head United Nations Women (UN Women), a newly created entity to oversee all of the world body's programmes aimed at promoting women's rights and full participation in global affairs...

taking stock of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals

Published: Monday, September 06, 2010

Dear colleagues and supportersof the Act Now on 2015 campaign, As you know, in less than 3 weeks' time, the UN Summit on the MDGs will take place in New York, taking stock of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.In addition...

Findings of the All-Ireland Traveller Health Study

Published: Saturday, September 04, 2010

Mary Harney, Minister for Health & Children, today (Thursday 2nd September, 2010) welcomed the publication of the findings of the All-Ireland Traveller Health Study, which she launched in July 2007.The Department of Health and Children in conjunction with the Department of...

A Million Women vs. Wal-Mart

Published: Monday, August 30, 2010

For nine years, Wal-Mart has fought to stave off a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company has long discriminated against its female workers in pay and promotions. So far it has avoided a trial on the merits of the issue....

WE MUST ACT NOW

Published: Sunday, August 29, 2010

Dear Supporter, As someone who cares about children in the developing world, can I ask for a minute of your time?Last year Ireland made a promise to spend 0.7% of our national income on overseas aid by 2015. We must keep...

Heart disease in women to be highlighted by range of events

Published: Thursday, August 26, 2010

HEART DISEASE is the number one killer of Irish women, the Irish Heart Foundation said yesterday as it announced events for next month to highlight the issue.Consultant physician Dr Kate McGarry, chairwoman of the foundation's council on women and...

40 years down, many more to go

Published: Tuesday, August 17, 2010

By Madeline HawkeAs 400 women and men flooded into the Kilbride suite of the Ormonde Hotel on Friday evening in Kilkenny, it was clear to see that feminism has not lost it's appeal. "40 years of feminism: A discussion on where we...

Conference to explore lack of women in politics

Published: Thursday, August 12, 2010

Reviewing women's political representation in Ireland will be the focus of a conference taking place at UCC next month. UCC Women's Studies in conjunction with the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) will present the one day conference 'Moving in...

Monk’s mother calls on women to join one-day boycott of Mass

Published: Wednesday, August 11, 2010

AN 80-YEAR-OLD woman is organising a one-day boycott of Sunday Mass "by the faithful women of Ireland" next month.Jennifer Sleeman from Clonakilty in Cork said she wants "to let the Vatican and the Irish church know that women are...

Ireland’s hotel industry: Another grim story

Published: Monday, August 02, 2010

Another grim tale by Ciara Moynihan of the Mayo NewsDespite the seasonal upswing, the hotel industry remains in a desperate state. According to an Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) survey conducted this year, 88 per cent of hoteliers were concerned about the...

Recession, surge in helpline calls, .... families break up and lost jobs

Published: Wednesday, July 28, 2010

By Susan McKay, CEO of National Women's Council of IrelandOne day last week, in an Irish city, a woman met her husband's psychiatrist. The husband had been violent and abusive towards the woman throughout their marriage. He was attending the...

Anger as council plans to remove Magdalene Laundry sculpture

Published: Tuesday, July 27, 2010

A city council has insisted it intends to remove a sculpture erected just last year to women who suffered at a Magdalene laundry.The sculpture was erected on International Women's Day in March last year close to the former Magdalene...

Latest Vatican document is final straw for women

Published: Sunday, July 25, 2010

ANALYSIS: The Vatican must no longer be granted immunity from equality legislation, in the name of liberty, equality, and even the Gospel, writes MARY CONDRENTHE VATICAN'S recent Normae de Gravioribus Delictis document prescribes automatic excommunication for anyone involved in the...

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