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1. National Women’s Council of Ireland | Stakeholder Submission to the Universal Periodic Review
Excerpt: …This Stakeholder Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) for Ireland in 2026 is grounded in consultation with our membership in March 2026. It also builds on NWC’s other recent research and policy work, including our submission on Ireland’s 2025 examination under the UN Committee for the Elimination of…
Section: Publications
2. JOIN OUR TEAM: Senior Policy Co-Ordinator
Excerpt: …NWC is hiring a Senior Policy Coordinator to lead and coordinate policy development, advocacy, research, and campaigns in line with NWC’s Strategic Plan. The role will play a central part in advancing women’s equality through strategic analysis, stakeholder engagement, and high-impact policy work. The Senior Policy Coordinator will focus in…
Section: Latest News
3. Community supports for health & wellbeing focus of new joint project NWC & HSE launch new project
Excerpt: …Marking Social Prescribing Day tomorrow, 26 March, the National Women’s Council (NWC) will launch a new project looking at existing Social Prescribing services. Supported by the HSE and the Department of Health, the study will explore why some women are less likely to access these HSE funded services. Social Prescribing…
Section: Latest News
4. Project bridges gap between migrant women and domestic and sexual violence
Excerpt: …“When information is not accessible, fear fills the space…” National Women’s Council project bridges gap between migrant women and domestic and sexual violence support services “So many (migrant) women are afraid that reporting violence could affect their residency or their children’s. So many don’t know their rights—when information is…
Section: Newsflash
12. Close the Gap: NWC demands better leave for parents
Excerpt: …At a rally at the Dáil today (4 March), the National Women’s Council (NWC) called for better-paid and more family leave. Ahead of International Women’s Day, NWC say maternity, paternity, adoptive, and parent’s benefit must be linked to income, and it should be expanded to cover at least the first…
Section: Latest News
13. Gender equality must be central to our climate change planning
Excerpt: …The impact of environmental breakdown, and the strategies to mitigate against it, are being felt differently by women and marginalised communities. This must be considered when planning for climate change, the National Women’s Council (NWC) said today (Friday, 20th February) in response to the preliminary findings for Ireland by Astrid Puentes Riaño, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. NWC welcomed, in particular, the Special Rapporteur's call for much…
Section: Latest News
14. Perpetrators of abuse should be removed from family homes rather than survivors of violence
Excerpt: …The National Women’s Council says women and children are being trapped between abuse and homelessness The National Women’s Council is calling for stronger legal protections that would allow women and children in abusive situations to remain safely in the family home, and for perpetrators to be removed instead. In paper…
Section: Latest News
15. National Women’s Council welcomes commitment to collect data on equality
Excerpt: …We need equality data to understand access of disabled women, migrant women, and Traveller and Roma women to public services Press release for immediate release As a member of the National Equality Data Strategy Working Group, NWC welcomes the publication of Ireland's first National Data Equality Strategy. In particular, NWC…
Section: Latest News
16. Invitation to Tender - NWC Mental Health Toolkit
Excerpt: …The National Women’s Council (NWC), with support and funding from HSE Mental Health, is seeking an experienced researcher or research team to support the design and development of a Gender-Sensitive Toolkit. This Toolkit will serve as a practical, evidence-informed resource to guide mental health professionals and services in embedding gender-sensitive…
Section: Latest News
17. NWC welcomes publication of first Phase of new Childcare Action Plan
Excerpt: …NWC welcomes positive actions in childcare Plan but warns that real structural reform is needed in the next Phase The National Women’s Council (NWC) today (17th December) welcomed the publication of Shaping the Future, the first phase of the new Action Plan on Affordable, High-Quality, Accessible Early Learning and Care and School-Age Childcare, but warned that real structural reform will be needed in the more substantial second…
Section: Latest News
18. For far too long, women’s stories have been written out of Irish history
Excerpt: …National Women’s Council welcomes recommendation to set up women’s museum The National Women’s Council (NWC) today (12th December 2025) welcomed the wide-ranging recommendations by the Government’s Advisory Committee on Women’s Stories including the recommendation to establish a dedicated and permanent women’s museum. NWC called on the Government to implement the…
Section: Latest News
Excerpt: …The Feminist Communities for Climate Justice (FCCJ) project, a partnership between the National Women’s Council of Ireland and Community Work Ireland, today (11th December) called on the Government to build on the success of round 1 of the Climate, Environment and Energy’s Community Climate Action Programme (CCAP) and renew and…
Section: Latest News
20. Housing solutions are core to ending violence against women
Excerpt: …Housing solutions are core to ending violence against women. This is a key finding of a major new report by the National Women's Council launched today (28th November) which shows the need to clearly recognise this mutually reinforcing relationship between homelessness and domestic, sexual and gender-based violence (DSGBV). The report…
Section: Latest News
