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1. New Website for Stop Traffick! Project
Excerpt: …The Immigrant Council of Ireland's launched a new website for its EC ISEC funded Stop Traffick! Project. http://www.stoptraffick.ie/STOP Traffick! is a transnational project on reduction in demand for the sexual services of victims of trafficking. This project will explore different attitudes of buyers and potential buyers to human trafficking, its…
Section: Newsflash
2. Embedding Equality in Policy Making - Seminar
Excerpt: …The Equality Budgeting Campaign invites you to a seminar on equality and policy-making. The seminar will look at how equality fares in current approaches to policy-making in Ireland, and will establish what lessons can be learnt from other jurisdictions. Crucially, it will suggest practical and realisable alternatives that place equality…
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3. Women and Osteoporosis: All you need to Know - Roundtable
Excerpt: …The Irish Osteoporosis Society and NWCI will host a roundtable discussion on women and osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a silent invasive genetic disease which affects both women and men but mostly women who are pre and post-menopausal. 50% of women over 50 years of age will fracture a bone due to…
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4. Sheehy-Skeffington Human Rights School: ‘1913-2013: ‘Back to the Future?’
Excerpt: …This event will provide an opportunity to discuss human rights approaches to achieve the fundamental freedoms and entitlements that contribute to the development of a more equal and sustainable society. A focus of the school is to broaden and spread discussion about human rights to include those involved in actions…
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5. EU consultation on female genital mutilation
Excerpt: …The European Commission has launched a consultation obtain your views on how best to develop measures at EU level to fight female genital mutilation.Female genital mutilation is a specific form of violence against women and girls, involving procedures that include the partial or total removal of the external female genital…
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6. Survivor Guide to Magdalen Commission published
Excerpt: …Justice for Magdalenes (JFM) have published this guide for the personal use of Survivors to assist them in making an account of their current needs and their experiences in the Laundry system. The guide aims to help Magdalene Survivors to correspond with the Magdalen Commission. JFM encourages Survivors to have…
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7. Embedding Equality in Policy Making - Seminar
Excerpt: …The Equality Budgeting Campaign invites you to a seminar on equality and policy-making. The seminar will look at how equality fares in current approaches to policy-making in Ireland, and will establish what lessons can be learnt from other jurisdictions. Crucially, it will suggest practical and realisable alternatives that place equality…
Section: Newsflash
8. Suicide in Pregnancy is much rarer now ‘thanks to legal abortion’
Excerpt: …Following last month's seminar on Abortion - The Lives and Health of Women in cooperation with Doctors for Choice, we published an article by one of the speakers Peadar O'Grady, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist on Suicide in Pregnancy on our website.Suicide in Pregnancy is much rarer now 'thanks to…
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9. Connect with the NWCI on social media
Excerpt: …In recent months the National Women's Council of Ireland has become very active on social media. If you want to receive timely updates on latest women's news or upcoming events and campaigns or if you want to promote your own events and activities , please make sure you connect with…
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10. Choons for Choice Fundraising Gig
Excerpt: …Organised by the Abortion Rights Campaign, some fantastic up and coming bands are going to be rocking out for Choice on Saturday April 6th on Nassau St. in the Blarney Inn. Venue holds 400, and the night will be headlined by the incredibly talented North by Northwest. For the night…
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11. Petition to name Dublin bridge after Rosie Hackett
Excerpt: …There are currently 16 bridges over the river Liffey in Dublin's city centre. 13 of these bridges are named after men and not one of the bridges is named after a women. This petition is calling on Dublin City council to name the new Marlborough Street bridge the Rosie Hackett…
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12. 50/50 Group North West book launch
Excerpt: …The 50/50 Group North West will launch the book 'The Road to 50/50 - Gender Quotas for Ireland: Speeches from the Dáil and Seanad'.The book will be launched by Justine McCarthy, Sunday Times columnist and current National Newspapers of Ireland columnist of the year.Other speakers include:Fiona Buckley, Co-founder 5050, Dept.…
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Excerpt: …Amnesty International and the NWCI are organising a short briefing on the Council of Europe Convention on Combatting and Preventing Violence against Women and Domestic Violence.The aim of the roundtable is to raise awareness and open discussion of the areas covered by the Convention and why it is important for…
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14. Justice for Bethany Home Survivors - Briefing
Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland and the Bethany Survivors Group are organising a briefing on the Campaign for Justice for Bethany Survivors.Bethany Home (1921 - 1972) was a residential institution in Dublin for women of the Protestant community who were convicted of petty theft and prostitution as well as…
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15. Grassroots action on sexual abuse in Ireland - Conference and campaign launch
Excerpt: …The ANU campaign for Truth, Rights and Justice is organising a conference and campaign launch to raise awareness and highlight the extent of sex abuse in Ireland. The conference will aim to expand the grassroots movement by bringing survivors and all stakeholders together to create an agenda for action and…
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16. SIPTU launches Young Workers Network
Excerpt: …SIPTU will launch its Young Workers Network on 1st May 2013. The launch event will feature the premiere of a new short film on young precarious workers in Ireland and a discussion on the issues that young workers face and how to win change. The event will be followed by…
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17. Women’s Community and Political Participation - Workshop
Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) and the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland will host a workshop entitled Women's Community and Political Participation.The overarching theme of the workshop is 'women's participation in post-conflict society'. At this workshop, we want to explore the broad issue of women's community and political…
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18. Sonas Housing is recruiting a Children Support Worker
Excerpt: …Sonas Housing is recruiting a Children Support Worker - Relief/Short –Term Contract work.Responsible to: Project LeaderResponsible For: Providing services to children in Sonas Supported Housing Service and Refuge Service on a one-to-one basis, in families and in a group settingEnsuring best practice in the delivery of services to children in…
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Excerpt: …Press Release, 27 March 2013The National Women's Council of Ireland calls on the government to make a clear a statement that childcare costs will remain outside of the proposed Insolvency Arrangements. Statements made by Minister for Transport, Leo Varadkar, in relation to the proposed guideline on childcare are extremely anti-women…
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20. Suicide in Pregnancy is much rarer now ‘thanks to legal abortion’
Excerpt: …Article by Dr Peadar O'Grady, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and member of Doctors for ChoiceIt is important in discussing the relevance of suicide in the current abortion debate that good medical practice does not come second place to legal arrangements for certification. Maternal mental health matters because of the…
Section: Latest News
