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1. New partnership between EU and UN Women to enhance gender equality worldwide
Excerpt: …Brussels, 16 April 2012 - A new partnership between the EU and UN Women set up to strengthen cooperation between the two organizations on their work on empowering women and gender equality, was today signed by High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/ Vice President of the Commission Catherine…
Section: Latest News
2. The Sheehy Skeffington Human Rights School
Excerpt: …Saturday April 28th Liberty HallA one day school providing an opportunity to discuss human rights approaches to achieve the fundamental freedoms and entitlements that contribute to thedevelopment of a Good Society. Senator Ivana Bacik Law Lecturer/Barrister Donncha O'ConnellCommunity Activist John Bissett Historian Mary CullenEconomist Michael Taft Human Rights Activist Aideen…
Section: Newsflash
Excerpt: …Date : Monday, April 30th 2012Time : 9:45 am to 3:45 pm, registration from 9:00amVenue : Longford Women's Link, Willow House, Ardnacassa Avenue, LongfordLunch will be provided on the dayConference noteThe aim of this event is simple, to use the experience, information and resources we have to inspire women to…
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Excerpt: …Please see below a letter regarding the closure of Banulacht. The NWCI would like to express our shock and regret at the closure of Banulacht which represents a huge loss to the women's sector. It is a disgrace that the important work that Banulacht has been doing for over 20…
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5. NATIONAL WOMEN’S COUNCIL OF IRELAND INVITATION TO REQUEST FOR TENDER
Excerpt: …1. Aim of the Project- To identify gender equality issues for women in the social welfare system who will be activated under the new Single Age Working Payment (SWAP) and the new National Employment and Entitlements Service (NEES) under the Department of Social Protection (DSP).- To identify how gender equality…
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6. "7 is Too Young" Campaign Press Release by OPEN, Barnardos and the National Women’s Counci
Excerpt: …OPEN, Barnardos and the National Women's Council of Ireland have expressed serious concern at proposals to change the One Parent Family Payment (OPFP) outlined in the Social Welfare Bill, published today. The three organisations said that measures in the Bill to cease the payment of the OPFP to lone parents…
Section: Newsflash
7. Article - Campaign groups vow to fight one-parent family cutbacks
Excerpt: …Lone parents are being attacked out of the blue and new social welfare rules which will see the one-parent family payment paid only up to the age of seven will be "opposed vehemently", campaign groups say.By 2015, all lone parents claiming the one-parent family payment will only get it for…
Section: Newsflash
Excerpt: …Press Release OPEN, Barnardos and the National Women's Council of Ireland have expressed serious concern at proposals to change the One Parent Family Payment (OPFP) outlined in the Social Welfare Bill, published today. The three organisations said that measures in the Bill to cease the payment of the OPFP to…
Section: Latest News
Excerpt: …1. Aim of the Project- To identify gender equality issues for women in the social welfare system who will be activated under the new Single Age Working Payment (SWAP) and the new National Employment and Entitlements Service (NEES) under the Department of Social Protection (DSP).- To identify how gender equality…
Section: Latest News
10. Campaign groups vow to fight one-parent family cutbacks
Excerpt: …Lone parents are being attacked out of the blue and new social welfare rules which will see the one-parent family payment paid only up to the age of seven will be "opposed vehemently", campaign groups say.By 2015, all lone parents claiming the one-parent family payment will only get it for…
Section: Latest News
11. Feminists hail explosion in new grassroots groups
Excerpt: …Dozens of new organisations are springing up around the UK, campaigning on issues from lads' mags to benefit cuts.It was the lads' mags - with semi-naked women in suggestive poses on their covers - being sold at eye level at her corner shop that did it."I just don't think I…
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12. Time to correct imbalance of genders in news media
Excerpt: …LISTENING TO any of the Republic's major current affairs radio programmes, one could be forgiven for thinking that women, by and large, are not interested in the news or have nothing interesting to say on the serious topics of our turbulent political times - nothing, at least, that cannot be…
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13. Empowering women with confidence and strength
Excerpt: …Local woman Catherine Cooke, Co-ordinator of Foyle Women's Information Network, has recently returned from Vienna in Austria, where she was invited to speak on a global platform on the role of Northern Irish Women. The trip highlighted how the empowerment of Northern Ireland's female population is internationally viewed as a…
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Excerpt: …04 April 2012The NWCI welcomes the move by the Council of Europe to question the Irish government on what interim measures it has in place to respond to women with life threatening pregnancies, while the government ponders over the implementation the 2010 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights…
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15. Mind the gender gap: Ireland’s rating is on the rise
Excerpt: …IRELAND HAS CLIMBED two places in the World Economic Forum's gender equality league table to sixth place.The Global Gender Gap Report measures equality in the areas of politics, education, employment and health.Ireland still ranks behind Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden and New Zealand, but is now ahead of Denmark, Switzerland, Germany,…
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16. Soroptimist International Dublin Club Presidents Lunch
Excerpt: …Soroptimist International Dublin are holding a fundraising Late lunch in Howth Yacht Club, Howth on Sunday 22nd April .The proceeds will be in aid of Safe Ireland, the only national organisation for domestic violence services in Ireland www.safeireland.ie .The guest speaker is Sharon O Halloran CEO of Safe Ireland.Champagne Reception:…
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17. Article: Female genital mutilation officially banned in Ireland
Excerpt: …FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION has been banned in Ireland.A bill outlawing the practice was passed by the Seanad this afternoon having already gone through all the stages in the Dáil.As well as prohibiting the practice, the new legislation means anyone resident in Ireland who takes a girl abroad to have FGM…
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18. Article: United Nations Commission on the Status of Women fails to uphold women’s human rights
Excerpt: …The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meets every year for two weeks to review progress on implementation of the Fourth World Conference on Women's Beijing Platform for Action adopted in 1995. The theme of this year's review was "The Empowerment of Rural Women and their role in…
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19. Muslim women face all kinds of assumptions Let’s look behind the headscarves
Excerpt: …"DO YOU KNOW what it's like to represent a billion human beings every day you walk out of your house? To be looked at as the representative of an entire world religion?"A world religion?"Do you know what that's like?"It's exhausting. And it can feel so heavy."Sometimes it makes me angry."And…
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20. Article: Pioneering feminist poet Adrienne Rich dead at 82
Excerpt: …Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich, a feminist literary figure celebrated as much for deeply personal reflections on her own life as for sometimes-biting social commentary, has died at age 82, family members said on Wednesday.Rich, who received a galaxy of honors, including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and National Book…
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