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Excerpt: …Where: Industries Hall of the RDS in Dublin CityWhen: Saturday, 30th October (ALL-DAY)'Claiming our Future' is an event to stimulate the emergence of a cross sectoral community of interest and action for a more equal, inclusive and sustainable Ireland. We are organising this event because we are deeply dissatisfied with…
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2. Conference of the European Sociological Association’s RN 14:
Excerpt: …Gender Relations in the Labour Market and the Welfare State 30 September to 1 October 2010You are invited to the mid-term conference of the European Sociological Association's Research Network 14: Gender Relations in the Labour Market and the Welfare State at the University of Leicester. This conference focusses on the…
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3. Full time Services Manager (MGR/SCE) at Ruhama
Excerpt: …Ruhama is a voluntary agency, with over twenty years experience working directly to support women affected by prostitution, including victims of trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, and lobbying and awareness raising on the issue of prostitution Ruhama is now recruiting to fill the following position:Full time Services Manager…
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4. Do you know Women Inspiring Europe? EIGE’s Calendar 2011 "Women Inspiring Europe" - Nomina
Excerpt: …The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) announced on March 8 the launch of an ongoing activity: the creation of its future "Women of Europe"resource pool. Among the women who have applied or have been nominated for the resource pool, every year 12 women will figure in the "Women Inspiring…
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5. Child Sexual Abuse Explained
Excerpt: …New multi-language brochure Child Sexual Abuse Explained (for Concerned Parents) is available free:Preview online here: http://www.abusewatch.eu/CSA_brochure.phpThe brochures (and shipping) are free. Available singly, in packets of 50 or boxes of 400. English, Irish, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew. Please email your name and address and how many you need to…
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6. Get the Picture? An Image Project for One World Week 2010
Excerpt: …LYCS is inviting local projects to participate in this image project which will culminate in an exhibition in November. We can't work with each group individually but we can offer support and will pull the exhibition together. The aims of the project are to: - Explore how images influence how…
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7. Activist Fleadh -A Summer School for Radicals
Excerpt: …The work-camps are designed to enable us all - activists and non-activists, radicals of all ages and people in many different communities, movements and struggles - to find spaces to talk to each other about what we have in common:- What are the big structures of power and inequality that…
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8. "One Step Too Far" - Violence Against Women Campaign Video
Excerpt: …Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/SayNoToViolence"One Step Too Far," a campaign video produced by the Welsh Government to tackle the sexist behaviours that lead to violence against women. Every year in the UK 1 million women experience domestic abuse, over 12,000 women are raped while nearly 20,000 fall victim to other sexual assaults.…
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9. Ladies international polo tournament
Excerpt: …Proceeds from the day will be going to The Women's Fund for Ireland. See details here.
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11. Conference to explore lack of women in politics
Excerpt: …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 from the Margins: Women's political representation in Ireland' on Saturday…
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12. Come and enjoy an evening of Jazz with Madeline
Excerpt: …Madeline Hawke is a member of the Irish Feminist Network
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13. Monk’s mother calls on women to join one-day boycott of Mass
Excerpt: …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 tired of being treated as second-class citizens".She has called on the…
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14. UN Women Agency Must Confront Wartime Violence
Excerpt: …Anticipating the appointment in the next few weeks of the highest-level United Nations official ever to promote the rights and status of women worldwide, peace advocates are demanding that the new office take on the issue of the unending violence against women in conflict zones -- a plague that keeps…
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15. UN official decries ‘overlooked’ crime of rape during conflict
Excerpt: …Rape is one of the world's greatest peace and security challenges, a senior United Nations official said today, adding that rape in times of conflict remains one of the least-condemned war crimes, leading to impunity for perpetrators.Rape "is not a crime that the world can dismiss as collateral damage or…
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16. Risk to society from brutal rapist ‘underestimated’
Excerpt: …The women's rights campaign group yesterday said there was public concern after reports that there was no surveillance planned of the Wicklow sex offender once he walks free in two days' time.NWCI chief executive Susan McKay also said there were questions to be answered over why violent offenders like Murphy…
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Excerpt: …As the debate gathers pace across Europe on the practice of Muslim women wearing headscarves and full-face veils - known as niqab - The Irish Times speaks to five women who wear the niqab in IrelandAISHA CHUCKLES as she tells the story of the child that stopped in the middle…
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18. Guerrilla Girls Take On Irish Arts Exclusion of Women
Excerpt: …In 2008, 86% of solo museum exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art were of male artists. It is not that there are no women around. Solo exhibitions by women at IMMA represented 44% of the total in 2004, so there has been a steep decline to 14%. Just…
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19. idea of "quotas" for women in politics,
Excerpt: …Senator Ivana Bacik - OPINION: The Senator, who has championed gender quotas in the selection of political candidates, responds to yesterday's Irish Times survey which found that a big majority of women TDs are against the ideaMARY MINIHAN'S survey of women TDs, published in The Irish Times yesterday, shows that…
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20. Malaysia state backs child marriage
Excerpt: …A Malaysian state is to allow Muslim girls under the age of consent of 16 years to wed in a bid to stem unwed pregnancies, angering the country's women's activists and politicians.The Islamic council in the southern Malaysian state of Malacca yesterday announced that it would to allow marriage for…
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