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Women to make up just 15pc of election candidates

Published: Monday, January 31, 2011

WOMEN will account for just 15pc of the candidates running in the general election -- despite making up half of the population.Despite promises from all parties to tackle the under-representation of women, there are just 56 females among the 381 candidates...

European Cervical Cancer Prevention Week

Published: Wednesday, January 19, 2011

European Cervical Cancer Prevention Week is taking place between 23-29 January 2011. The aim of this campaign is to raise awareness about how cervical cancer can be prevented and to encourage women to avail of a free cervical screen funded by...

Nurses and Midwives Bill goes before Dáil Tues Jan 18th

Published: Monday, January 17, 2011

The Nurses and Midwives Bill goes before the Dáil this Tuesday, Jan 18th. Please support the Campaign to amend sections 24 and 40 in order to protect women's right to make informed decisions in maternity care and the autonomy of the...

NWCI Women’s Charter on Equality

Published: Monday, January 17, 2011

The Charter was developed to support local decision and policy making bodies, businesses, trade unions and women's groups to promote the achievement of women's equality as an important aspect of their work. It takes account of the views expressed by...

IRAN - MARRY AT 16, IRANIAN PRESIDENT URGES GIRLS

Published: Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has urged girls to marry at 16 to help keep Satan at bay.His call is another controversial, if implicit, rejection of his country's highly praised family planning policy that was sanctioned by senior Islamic clerics two...

Graduation Day at Ruhama

Published: Monday, January 10, 2011

The 13th December 2010 was a day of great celebration in Ruhama. The reason for the festivity was the graduation ceremony for 28 women in our service, who all received their certificates for completing the Ruhama/Dignity Pre-training programme.The courses were...

Reconciliation and Equality through Drama Seminar on Friday 14th of January 2011

Published: Saturday, January 08, 2011

Smashing Times Theatre Company is delighted to announce details of theirone-day Reconciliation and Equality through Drama Seminar on Friday 14th ofJanuary 2011 in the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co.Donegal. TheSeminar is a celebration and exploration of the potential of artisticprocesses...

Medical Research Charities Group (MRCG) and Health Research Board (HRB) call for proposals

Published: Tuesday, January 04, 2011

The Medical Research Charities Group (MRCG) is a collective of charities, which seeks to further medical research in Ireland. Sightsavers International forms part of the MRCG, and as such has lobbied successfully for the Health Research Board (HRB) to co-fund...

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Published: Wednesday, December 22, 2010

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Next government ‘must legislate for limited abortion’

Published: Monday, December 20, 2010

It is now up to a new government to legislate for limited abortion, leading feminist and academic Ailbhe Smyth told a pro-choice rally in Dublin yesterday.The group which organised the rally, Feminist Open Forum, told the few dozen people...

The NWCI welcomes European Court ruling and calls on Government to legislate for women’s right to fu

Published: Wednesday, December 15, 2010

NATIONAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL WELCOMES EUROPEAN COURT RULING AND CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO LEGISLATE FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO FULL REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.The National Women's Council of Ireland welcomes the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that Ireland has failed...

Call to women accountants to break glass ceiling.

Published: Monday, December 13, 2010

The National Women's Council of Ireland applauds the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland (CPA) who recently recognised the need to address the gender balance issue in the accounting profession.Speaking at the 2010 graduation ceremony in the Helix on...

SIGN THE PETITION

Published: Wednesday, December 08, 2010

As we speak, the government is rapidly moving to ram through a serious cut to the national minimum wage. The proposed cut would slash €40 a week from the household budgets of tens of thousands of working families across Ireland --...

Cuts will condemn families to poverty, say campaigners

Published: Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Drastic cuts will condemn families on the breadline to a life of poverty, hunger and homelessness, charities and campaigners claimed tonight.Children's rights activist Norah Gibbons claimed cuts on the poorest who survive on low incomes and social welfare will...

Budget to hit highest and lowest earners

Published: Monday, December 06, 2010

5 December 2010 By Susan Lynch in the Sunday Business PostThe abolition of certain tax reliefs and cuts in social welfare and the minimum wage will draw the ire of both ends of the earning spectrumWhile it is almost inconceivable to imagine...

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