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Excerpt: …Press Release United Nations member states call on government to introduce laws to bring more women into politics. The National Women's Council of Ireland today welcomed recommendations to introduce parity legislation to bring more women into politics made to Minister Alan shatter today. The recommendation was put forward at Ireland's…
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2. NWCI warmly welcomes the announcement that three women have won the Nobel Prize
Excerpt: …Three women who have campaigned for women's rights and an end to violence in Liberia and Yemen, including Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, won the Nobel Peace Prize today.Johnson-Sirleaf will share the prize with two other women - fellow Liberian, Leymah Gbowee, who mobilized fellow women against the country's civil war…
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3. Human Trafficking – Modern Slavery: Spotlight on Northern Ireland - A Seminar
Excerpt: …Klara Skrivankova, Dr Tomoya ObokataA seminar organised by The Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates Association (UK) LtdJustice Minister David Ford will open the seminarChair: Les Allamby, Director of the Law Centre in Northern IrelandThe PSNI's Organised Crime Branch launched operation Pentameter 2 at the beginning of 2008 and uncovered…
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4. SAFE Ireland invites you to Now You’re Talking
Excerpt: …You are invited to join the presidential candidates for the start of a national conversation on a safer Ireland for women and chiildren.Let's get serious about Domestic Violence!October 19th 201111am - 12.30pm Davenport Hotel, Merrion Street Lower, Dublin 2.Candidates will set out their vision for a safer Ireland and the…
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5. Interview with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf by NWCI CEO Susan McKay
Excerpt: …There's a huge billboard on the junction just outside Liberia's Department of Foreign Affairs on the Atlantic seafront in the capital, Monrovia. 'Liberia shall rise again', it says, over a smiling photograph of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The first woman to lead an African country, she took over in 2006…
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6. NWCI welcomes the announcement that three women have won the Nobel Prize
Excerpt: …Three women who have campaigned for women's rights and an end to violence in Liberia and Yemen, including Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, won the Nobel Peace Prize today.Johnson-Sirleaf will share the prize with two other women - fellow Liberian, Leymah Gbowee, who mobilized fellow women against the country's civil war…
Section: Latest News
Excerpt: …Press Release United Nations member states call on government to introduce laws to bring more women into politics. The National Women's Council of Ireland today welcomed recommendations to introduce parity legislation to bring more women into politics made to Minister Alan shatter today. The recommendation was put forward at Ireland's…
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8. NWCI warmly welcome new member Breffni Belles
Excerpt: …A warm welcome to our new Member - Breffni Belles Cavan Women's Network - who has just joined National Women's Council of Ireland!Click here to read more.....
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Excerpt: …There are days when, despite everything, Ireland still feels like quite a good place to live.Days when the sun shines, days when you remember not to turn on the radio or open the economics pages.Days when you watch an All-Ireland final, or take a walk by the sea, or hang…
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Excerpt: …Date: Tuesday, 4th October 2011Venue: Wood Quay Venue, Dublin City Council, Dublin 8Time: 10.30amClick here to see the flyer in full..... Please RSVP by emailing admin@immigrantcouncil.ie or by telephone: 01 674 0202 by 30th September 2011.
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11. Claiming Our Future Ideas- An Economy For Society
Excerpt: …Millennium Hall, Cork City Hall, Saturday November 5th 2011Saturday, November 5, 2011 11:00 AM (Registration 10am) CLAIMING OUR FUTURE IDEAS- 'AN ECONOMY FOR SOCIETY' A NATIONAL DISCUSSIONOur economic model of development is failing us. When judged by purely economic measures such as GDP growth is stagnant. The economic system doesn't…
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12. Act Now on 2015 - Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Aid (but were afraid to ask)
Excerpt: …This Wednesday, 5 October, we will host a short lunchtime briefing on Ireland's aid programme, and why we are campaigning to protect it. This is your chance to dig into any questions you may have about 'ODA', good or bad aid, Ireland's aid promise, how aid links up with development…
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13. Kerry Southwest Women invites you to the launch of A Charter for Women’s Equality
Excerpt: …Join us on...Saturday 15th October at 2pm in Tech Amergin, WatervilleGuest speaker ...Susan McKayCEO of the National Women's Council of IrelandWe look forward to seeing you!15 OCTOBERRural Women's DayClick here to read the flyer in fullR.S.V.P. by Wednesday October 12 on 066 9473397 or email admin@skwa.net
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14. Reminder - NWCI Member’s Meeting 18th October
Excerpt: …Turn Off the Red Light: End Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in IrelandTuesday 18th October10.30 - 15.00Hotel Kilmore, Dublin Road, CavanFor directions, please click here or call the hotel (049) 433 22 88Please RSVP to Anne Gibney anneg@nwci.ieClick here to see the full brochure
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15. Irish Human Rights Commission & Law Society of Ireland
Excerpt: …9th Annual Human Rights ConferenceIreland's Human Rights Record Under the SpotlightImplications of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review10am - 14.30, Saturday, 22 October 2011President's Hall, Law Society of Ireland, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7Keynote address: Anastasia Crickley, UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial DiscriminationPresentation:Deirdre Duffy, Your Rights - Right NowPanelists…
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16. SAFE Ireland Domestic Violence Services National Statistics 2010
Excerpt: …SAFE Ireland released their Domestice Violence Services National Statistics 2010 on September the 28th.7,235 individual women received support from Domestic Violence Services in 2010. But on over 3,236 occasions services were unable to accommodate women and their children because either the refuges were full or there were none in their…
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17. Front Line Defenders Mourns the Passing of Wangari Muta Maathai
Excerpt: …Front Line Defenders mourns the passing of Kenyan environmentalist and human rights defender Wangari Muta Maathai, who died of cancer yesterday.Click here to read more.....
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18. Labour must stand side by side with women
Excerpt: …Female voters have been betrayed by the coalition. Labour must stop the clock being turned back.Rarely can there have been a group of voters who swung so far so fast. Polls suggest the drop in women's support for the Conservative party has been dramatic since the election. The quiet crisis…
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19. Call to criminalise kerb crawlers
Excerpt: …The criminalisation of men who buy sex must be central to any strategy to combat prostitution, police experts from Sweden and Norway said in Dublin today.They are here at the invitation of the Immigrant Council of Ireland and Ruhama, which works with women in prostitution, to advise the Garda and…
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20. Global Development podcast: gender equality
Excerpt: …In the first of a new series of podcasts, we discuss what can be done to improve the lives of women and girls around the world - a major development challenge.Gender inequality remains one of the top development challenges of the 21st century. Women and girls continue to fare worse…
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