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1. 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
2. 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
3. ‘We don’t recognise ourselves in the rosy picture painted by Minister Moloney’ say women’s groups
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…
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5. 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
6. 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
7. Mary Harney’s refusal to set up an inquiry into the brutal practise of symphisiotomy is a scandal
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,…
Section: Latest News
Excerpt: …New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the government must urgently apply itself to tackling persistent and unacceptable inequalities for women in Ireland. According to the National Women's Council of Ireland, the new Women and Men in Ireland figures put Ireland to shame on the international stage."Last year…
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9. We are looking for a Senior Administrator…
Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland is seeking to recruit aSENIOR ADMINISTRATION AND INFORMATION OFFICERTo provide full administrative support to ensure the effective running of the NWCI. To deliver information, advice and referral services.You will be interested in this job if you have:A relevant 3rd level degree or equivalent professional…
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10. Submission to Constitutional Review of Electoral Reform
Excerpt: …Whether elected or appointed, the overwhelming number of those in positions of decision-making in Ireland are male. With women making up 50 per cent of the Irish population, the figures in this research show an evident deep and systematic inequality. They are proof of a failure by successive Governments to…
Section: Publications
11. F Grade just not good enough!
Excerpt: …Government's approach to Child Benefit Derisory to Women - National Women's Council of Ireland.'The cuts to Child Benefit, made in Budget 2010, are now taking effect and are devastating for women", stated Orla O'Connor NWCI Head of Policy. The National Women's Council of Ireland supports the Children's Rights Alliance, which…
Section: Latest News
12. Government proposal to cut wage rates for retail, hotel and catering workers a disgrace
Excerpt: …"Attacking low paid workers is yet another example of Government's broken promises to protect the most vulnerable in the recession", stated NWCI Head of Policy, Orla O'Connor.The NWCI to-day expressed its anger at the proposal by Government to introduce legislation to cut the pay of workers in the retail, hotel…
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13. Talk by Gazan Human Rights Defender Khalil Shaheen
Excerpt: …Date: Wednesday 20 JanuaryTime: 7:00pm - 8:30pmVenue: Irish Aid Centre, O'Connell Street, Dublin 1 (map: http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=306269002&u=3412242)Amnesty International Ireland wishes to remind you that we will host a talk by Human Rights Defender Khalil Shaheen from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in the Irish Aid Centre on O'Connell Street to-day…
Section: Latest News
Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland welcomes the news that Father Sean Sheehy has offered to withdraw from his parish - but insists that he must not be reassigned to any other parish, in Ireland or elsewhere. "The Catholic church has a bad record on this," said Susan McKay, director…
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15. There’s something about Mary Robinson
Excerpt: …There's something about Mary Robinson. As one of the world's leading human rights activists, she is a formidable woman and an outstandingly brave one. She moves among world leaders with gracious ease. But she has never forgotten what she learned from Mna na hEireann in her years of work as…
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16. NWCI calls on Oireachtas to reject the Social Welfare Bill
Excerpt: …Press StatementFriday 11th December 2009NWCI calls on Oireachtas to reject the Social Welfare Bill'Cuts proposed in Budget 2010 will be devastating for women and children, with cuts to Child Benefit, to lone parents payment, to maternity Benefit, and to Carers payments,' according to Orla O'Connor, the National Women's Council's Head…
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17. Ireland must stop banishing women, says National Women’s Council
Excerpt: …Ireland must stop banishing women, says the National Women's Council of IrelandThe days of banishing women to seek healthcare must end, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland. Speaking on the eve of a landmark case before the European Court of Human Rights [Wednesday 9 December 09], the director…
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18. National Women’s Council of Ireland reacts to Budget 2010
Excerpt: …Mothers on social welfare or working for low pay will bear the brunt of budgetary cuts, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland. "We deplore the government's decision to cut child benefit and social welfare payments," said Susan McKay, director of the NWCI. "Child benefit is a crucial part…
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19. PARENTS GATHER TO WARN GOVERNMENT AGAINST CUTS TO CHILD BENEFIT IN NEXT WEEK’S BUDGET
Excerpt: …PARENTS GATHER TO WARN GOVERNMENT AGAINST CUTS TO CHILD BENEFITPACUB, OPEN, One Family, the Children's Rights Alliance and the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI), have come together once again to organise a public gathering outside Dáil Eireann tonight at 6pm which will coincide with the Labour Party's Private Member's…
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20. Public Gathering to oppose cuts to Child Benefit in Budget 2010
Excerpt: …PUBLIC GATHERING PLANNED FOR THIS EVENING (WED) OUTSIDE DAIL TO OPPOSE CUTS TO CHILD BENEFITThe National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) will join PACUB, OPEN, One Family and the Children's Rights Alliance in a public gathering to oppose cuts to Child Benefit in next week's budget. The public gathering will…
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