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1. European Women’s Lobby 12 Priorities for the Belgian Presidency of the European Union
Excerpt: …Furthermore, the EWL hereby expresses its hope that the Belgian Presidency will provide during its tenure progressive and ambitious leadership to the Council of the European Union in its policy and legislative tasks, and ensure concrete and significant advances in equality between women and men throughout the EU.The European Women's…
Section: Newsflash
Excerpt: …Cutting the minimum wage is not the answerA flawed assumption prevails within business, media and political circles that cutting the minimum wage would somehow assist economic recovery and improve competitiveness. For starters this approach will not help create employment. Much of the work undertaken by minimum wage earners is considered…
Section: Latest News
5. Reflecting on Our Spaces at the CSW
Excerpt: …By Margot Baruch & Keely SwanAs young women working in a feminist and women's human rights organization based in the global North, we attended the 54th session on the UN Commission of the Status of Women and have the following thoughts about our experiences. In 2010, women's human rights activists…
Section: Latest News
6. Reflection by National Women’s Council Director at International Worker’s Memorial Day
Excerpt: …"Remember the dead, fight for the living."This event was organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions as a ceremony of remembrance and reflection for people who have lost their lives because of their work. In 2009, 43 workers in Ireland are known to have died in workplace accidents. The…
Section: Latest News
7. European Womens Lobby Strategic plan
Excerpt: …Deadline: 5 May 2010Dear EWL members,We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the next EWL Strategic Plan for the period 2011-2015. As a membership-based organisation with more than 2500 Member Organisations, the European Women's Lobby views the contribution of the full EWL membership as crucial in the development…
Section: Latest News
8. Female Genital Mutilation Bill welcomed
Excerpt: …OUTLAW BARBARIC MUTILATION OF WOMEN, SAYS NWCI.Female genital mutilation (FGM) must be outlawed in Ireland, and it must become an offence to take a child abroad for the purpose of performing FGM on her, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland. "There are several thousand women and girls in…
Section: Latest News
9. Europa Donna wins award ‘9 Things you Should Know about Breast Cancer’
Excerpt: …Our Members and partners in all things Breast health, Europa Donna Ireland have just won a Crystal Clear Award for health literacy. Their "9 Things you Should Know about Breast Cancer" Leaflet, launched by Minister Mary Harney last October was given first place under the category for best project in…
Section: Latest News
10. Fertility clinic will only treat married couples…..Irish Daily Mail (Friday 16 April 2010)
Excerpt: …By Susan McKay, Director of the National Women's Council of Ireland When my daughters were small, we went to live in a very conservative little village in the far North. At their very Protestant state school, they were approached by a posse of small friends, who demanded know why their…
Section: Latest News
11. NWCI supports the MCRI Campaign for the Rights of Migrant Workers to Change Employers
Excerpt: …Minister Batt O'KeeffeMinister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation23 Kildare StreetDublin 2 16 April 2010 Dear Minister O'Keeffe, The National Women's Council of Ireland is shocked by the exploitation of migrant workers in this country by unscrupulous employers, and we call on you to act now to change this shameful situation…
Section: Latest News
12. AIMS Ireland Press Release —April 7, 2010
Excerpt: …Nearly a quarter of women found the care they received in the Irish Maternity System after they gave birth to be "poor". A new survey carried out by AIMS Ireland (Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services, Ireland) found that 22% of women surveyed stated the care they received postnatally…
Section: Latest News
13. Ireland: A Land of a thousand welcomes?
Excerpt: …BY ELLA O'DWYERSALOME MBUGUA, from Kenya, is the director of AkiDwA, (the African Women's Network Ireland), an organisation committed to empowering African women living in Ireland. The organisation recently launched a report calling on the Government to address health and safety issues facing women asylum seekers in state care. The…
Section: Latest News
14. Joint EWL and Oxfam publication on Women and the Recession
Excerpt: …Women's poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession An Invisible Crisis?All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the…
Section: Latest News
15. Final Statement Concerning Beijing +15 process Review at Commission on the Status of Women
Excerpt: …Final StatementConcerning Beijing +15 process Review at Commission on the Status of WomenNew York, March 4th, 2010Please click here for the pdf versionThe Fourth World Conference on Women produced the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), a comprehensive women's human rights paradigm that envisioned the transformation of power relations.…
Section: Latest News
Excerpt: …ROSY PICTURE NOT ONE WE RECOGNISE, SAY WOMEN'S GROUPS. The National Women's Council of Ireland is astonished by the speech made by Minister John Moloney at the Commission on the Status of Women in New York this week. The Minister declared himself happy that gender equality in Ireland has 'advanced…
Section: Latest News
Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland invites the committee to listen to a news report from today's Irish Times. The story is headlined: Cabinet agrees 30 diplomatic posts in major reshuffle, and it is by DEAGLÁN de BRÉADÚN, Political Correspondent Wed, Mar 10, 2010 MINISTER FOR Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin…
Section: Latest News
18. International Women’s Day 2010
Excerpt: …The poorest people in Ireland today are older women, Sylvia Meehan, president of the Senior Citizens Parliament told a conference organised by the National Women's Council of Ireland to celebrate International Women's Day. 'These women gave their lives to rearing the next generation. Now they have to listen to people…
Section: Latest News
19. Historic Discrimination Repeated, says National Women’s Council
Excerpt: …The government today betrayed for the second time women who were forced to leave work up to the 1970's simply because they got married, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland. Minister Mary Hanafin today unequivocally stated that women who already lost their careers because of the marriage bar,…
Section: Latest News
Excerpt: …MARY HARNEY'S REFUSAL TO SET UP AN INQUIRY INTO THE BRUTAL PRACTISE OF SYMPHISIOTOMY IS A SCANDAL, SAYS NATIONAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL.The National Women's Council of Ireland is calling on the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, to set up an inquiry into the brutal and unjustifiable use of symphisiotomy in Ireland,…
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