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1. LWL video for the Better Together Campaign
Excerpt: …This year Longford Women's Link have entered the video they used as part of last year's 16 Days of Action Opposing Violence Against Women. It's a video asking people to stop and think about domestic violence. Please support it by voting on the 5th star above the video, share it…
Section: Latest News
2. Women and Budget 2012: The Verdict - Panel Discussion
Excerpt: …Feminist Open Forum Panel Discussion Thursday December 8th 2011 at 7.30pm The Ireland Institute (near Trinity Hotel), Pearse Street, Dublinwith Sinead Pentony, Head of Policy, TASC Orla O'Connor, Head of Policy, National Women's Council of Ireland Sara Burke, Journalist, health policy analyst and author of Irish Apartheid: Healthcare Inequality in…
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3. Papering Over the Cracks - A Documentary by the Seven Towers Residents Group
Excerpt: …Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family..... (Article 25: The United Nations universal declaration of human rights) The Seven Towers Residents Group works in the New Lodge area of North Belfast, an area of long standing…
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4. Women bloggers call for a stop to ‘hateful’ trolling by misogynist men
Excerpt: …Crude insults, aggressive threats and unstinting ridicule: it's business as usual in the world of website news commentary - at least for the women who regularly contribute to the national debate.The frequency of the violent online invective - or "trolling" - levelled at female commentators and columnists is now causing…
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5. Wear the ‘F’ label with pride
Excerpt: …Today's young women still face a fight for equality with men, writes Judy King.'Embrace the F-word.'' It's probably not the phrase students, parents and teachers expect to hear from a former principal and guest speaker at their year 12 graduation evening.But the word ''feminism'' has been so misconstrued and misused,…
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6. Miss World met with protests at UK 60th anniversary show
Excerpt: …Demonstrators gathered in Earls Court, west London, as the Miss World contest returned for its 60th anniversary show.The event is still watched by an estimated one billion people around the world, involving women from 113 countries.Kat Banyard, founder of UK Feminista and author of The Equality Illusion, says that the…
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7. Risking it all for the truth: exiled Colombian journalist Mary Luz Avendano
Excerpt: …Colombia has been ravaged by an armed conflict lasting for almost 50 years.Paramilitary and guerrilla groups, drug traffickers and corrupt police have been trying to silence, by any means necessary, those journalists unwilling to be bribed to look the other way.Covering controversial issues, like the link between the country's armed…
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8. Nominate an adult/community education organisation for an AONTAS STAR Award
Excerpt: …Do you know of an organisation in your area which delivers education for adults and which you think deserves some recognition? Then why not nominate them for an AONTAS STAR Award?The awards initiative is open to any organisation involved in adult education - these include statutory education providers such as…
Section: Newsflash
9. NWCI address the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure & Reform about our Pre-Budget Su
Excerpt: …Head of Policy Orla O'Connor and Head of Outreach and Support Rachel Doyle were invited to address Deputy Alex White T.D. and the members of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform in regards to our Pre-Budget Submission.You can read their presentation by clicking here...A video/webcast of the…
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10. Women’s Human Rights – Creating Global Solidarity Conference
Excerpt: …9th December 2011, Thomond Park, Limerick.This conference will promote feminist movement building, women's human rights and solidarity between women locally and globally. The conference will explore feminist activism and women's demands for greater voice, presence and influence at local, national and international levels. At a time of economic crisis, funding…
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11. Congratulations to Michael D Higgins from mna na hEireann!
Excerpt: …President elect Michael D Higgins has a long and distinguished track record of supporting women's rights as he showed in his responses to the NWCI's questionnaire in advance of the election. Click here to read his response to our questionnaire...
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Excerpt: …The National University of Ireland, Maynooth, the Community Workers' Cooperative and CEBSD, the European Community Development Network are pleased to announce the international Conference, Community Work and Community Development In 2011: Global Issues, European Challenges and Irish Dimensions on Wednesday November 16th 2011 from 10.00-17.00. Click here to read more......
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Excerpt: …Last Wednesday, 26th October, the IFPA hosted the launch of the UNFPA flagship report, State of World's Population. The theme for 2011 was People and Possibilities in a World of 7 Billion.Click here to read more including the IFPA press release, speeches from the event and the report...
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14. Congratulations Michael D Higgins from mna na hEireann!
Excerpt: …President elect Michael D Higgins has a long and distinguished track record of supporting women's rights as he showed in his responses to the NWCI's questionnaire in advance of the election. See below for the NWCI questionnaire and Michael D's responses.Q.1 What major initiatives will you conduct as President to…
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15. Mary Ann Sieghart: Giving women power requires action
Excerpt: …Are women great at running the country? You bet.Four monarchs were voted into the top 25 of the BBC's Greatest Britons of all time. Three of them - Elizabeth I, Victoria and Elizabeth II - were female. Alfred the Great was the only King, and he didn't even govern the…
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17. Cavan Members Meeting "Turn Off the Red Light"
Excerpt: …Following the success of our Cavan Members Meeting in association with Breffni Bells, you can now access the excellent presentations given by our panel of experts by clicking on the appropriate links below.To access Grainne Healy's presentation, click here...To access Sarah Benson's presentation, click here...To access Nusha Yonkova's presentation, click…
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18. ‘Missing girls’ far outweigh party politics
Excerpt: …IN SEPTEMBER, the World Bank published World Report 2012 - Gender Equality and Development. It highlighted both significant progress in areas like education, and "sticky areas" that are stubbornly slow to improve. One of these "sticky areas" is what it calls "almost four million women missing each year". In other…
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19. Why women in radio are starting to talk back
Excerpt: …It's silly to get upset about awards ceremonies, we all know that. Every award, from the Turner prize to the Oscars, is just the result of four or five people getting together in a room, eating curly sandwiches, disagreeing with each other about something, and then agreeing. If a different…
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Excerpt: …Dear Friend of Barnardos,Over 90,000 children in Ireland are already living in consistent poverty. And further cuts to welfare, health and education in Budget 2012 will put even more children at risk.Use your voice to persuade Government to invest in what matters: our children.Sign the petition here for a child-friendly…
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