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1. BIG VICTORY FOR DOMESTIC WORKERS!
Excerpt: …National Employment Rights Authority to begin a campaign of inspections to protect domestic workers' rightsDomestic Workers Action Group Welcomes NERA Decision to Start Inspections in Private HomesRead Irish Times article, 16 Nov 2010: Campaign starts to protect rights of domestic workers <http://migrantrightscentreireland.newsweaver.ie/1f98z2oys3dzfo5drxkqxa?email=true>The Domestic Workers Action Group and the MRCI have…
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2. New citizens’ forum demands immediate general election
Excerpt: …'Claiming Our Future' has today (25th November, 2010) called for an immediate general election and denounced the Government's plan to push through a budget as "unacceptable and undemocratic." The new movement, which agreed a radical policy agenda at Ireland's first 'citizens forum' last month, said the Irish people had a…
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3. AkiDwA calls for independent status for migrant women experiencing domestic violence
Excerpt: …Today, 25 November, the United Nation's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, AkiDwA calls on the Government to provide independent status to migrant women experiencing domestic violence whose legal residency status is dependent on their spouse. "Migrant women with dependent spouse residency status should be able to…
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4. Marriage Equality Big Apple Raffle is back
Excerpt: …The Marriage Equality Big Apple Raffle is back again this year! Considering all the doom and gloom at the moment, we're delighted to offer you the chance to win one of three fantastic prizes:- one lucky winner will jet off to New York for a two night break (sponsored by…
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5. Introduction of a wealth tax in the upcoming Budget
Excerpt: …The Community Platform campaign for the introduction of a wealth tax in the upcoming Budget.The Government is proposing to introduce a property tax in the forthcoming Budget. The definition of property likely to be used will be limited to people's homes and is not likely to include assets such as…
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6. MEN’S SUPPORT CRUCIAL IN COMBATING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Excerpt: …Labour Women support the white ribbon campaign launched yesterday by The Other Half to ask men to take a stand against violence against women and girls said Katherine Dunne, Labour Women Chair. "Violence against women is not simply an issue for women and women's groups. We need men to make…
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7. Susan McKay awarded Woman of the Year in Public Life, 2010
Excerpt: …Susan McKay, CEO of the National Women's Council of Ireland, has been awarded a Woman of the Year award by Irish Tatler magazineSusan was presented with the award, for Woman of the Year in Public Life, at a gala event in Dublin on 19th November. This is the 10th anniversary…
Section: Latest News
Excerpt: …National Women's Council of IrelandGender Mainstreaming Strategy for the Health Service ExecutiveThe NWCI is seeking to contract an experienced and highly skilled researcher for this project.The tender is for the production of a Gender Mainstreaming Strategy for the Health Service Executive. Over the past number of months the NWCI has…
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9. PRESS RELEASE FROM THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S COUNCIL OF IRELAND
Excerpt: …The majority of workers in the lowest paid sectors of the economy - retail, hotels and restaurants, childcare - are women. On average, women are paid 10.7% less than men. In the private sector, women are paid almost 20% less than men. Cutting the minimum wage will widen this gap…
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10. Celebrating the work of Alice Milligan ‘possibly the best kept secret in Irish history
Excerpt: …Actor Fiona Shaw opens exhibition celebrating the work of Alice Milligan 'possibly the best kept secret in Irish history' - an unjustly forgottenjournalist, political activist, feminist, human rights campaigner, 'CulturalAmbassador', theatre pioneer and Ulster Protestant Unionist who became anIrish nationalist and tireless promoter of the Irish language and was awarded…
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11. SPEECH AT ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CONSORTIUM ON GENDER BASED VIOLENCE
Excerpt: …This is rife globally, in conflict and in peacetime, and it is rife in this country.When I started working for the National Women's Council in May 2009, everyone was talking about the Equality for Women money. Groups were counting on it. They'd been encouraged to apply for what counts as…
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Excerpt: …We need all the help we can get in these troubled times. Please vote for our video by clicking on the big yellow star onhttp://www.bettertogether.ie/content/longford-womens-link-better-togetherBefore 5.00pm today. It doesn't matter if you have voted already, you can vote once every 24 hours but today is the last dayThank you all
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Excerpt: …This year the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has been holding a series of lecture on trying to influence the Government to take an alternative economic view. This campaign is called 'A Better Fairer Way'. As part of the 'Better Fairer Way' campaign, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions is…
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Excerpt: …Our female TDs and Senators held a meeting this week to discuss the fraught issue of women in politics and how their numbers in parliament can be increased. The event was organised by Minister of State for Equality Mary White and Labour Senator Ivana Bacik, who produced a report last…
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15. PwC investigates as laddish e-mails go viral
Excerpt: …SEXIST E-MAILS by male employees about young female colleagues in PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dublin were being viewed on internet sites around the globe yesterday.The series of e-mails, that included staff photographs of the women, were circulated within the firm at first but then sent to men in other financial services businesses…
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16. Magdalene Laundries inquiry ordered
Excerpt: …The Government must launch an official inquiry into the treatment of women and girls detained in so-called Magdalene Laundries, it has been ruled.The Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) said compensation should be paid to former residents where the state is found to have had a hand in their detention at…
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17. Consultation with women on peace and security issues
Excerpt: …We are beginning a consultation process with women from the north, border counties, women in direct provision and asylum seekers in the south and women who have experienced conflict and gender based violence on this island; and representatives from the women's centres and groups that work with these women. There…
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18. The Perfect Red Dress for making a statement
Excerpt: …"MADE in Dagenham" is not remotely what you would call a fashion film. Set in 1968, in an automobile factory outside London, it is a dramatized account of the landmark labor dispute between the Ford Motor Company and a group of female sewing machinists who demanded equal pay with men.…
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19. Claiming Our Future - Galway Event
Excerpt: …Terrence McDonagh (Economist NUI Galway) who told us that economics is ideologically driven and the current dominant ideology has resulted (and continues to result ) in the policies that we have seen fail us economically, socially and environmentally.Michael Taft (Economist Unite Trade Union) outlined the way that current Government policy…
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20. Belonging - a FOMACS/ICI production
Excerpt: …Launch of Belonging - a FOMACS/ICI production - which articulates a diversity of young voices as they express and reflect upon their everyday lives and views on the future. Belonging was conceived and produced over two weekend workshops, where photography, video and music acted as a catalyst for collective discussion…
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