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Published: Wednesday, April 16, 2025
In response to the publication of the Government’s Climate Action Plan 2025, Feminist Communities for Climate Justice (FCCJ), a joint project by the National Women’s Council and Community Work Ireland, today (16th April 2025) expressed its...
Published: Friday, April 11, 2025
NWC is currently recruiting for Policy and Campaigns Officer This is a critical time for women’s rights. As the leading representative organisation for women and women’s organisations with almost 200 member groups across the island of Ireland,...
Published: Thursday, April 10, 2025
NWC is currently recruiting for a Membership and Communications Coordinator (Maternity Leave Cover) This is a critical time for women’s right. As the leading representative organisation for women and women’s organisations with almost 200 member groups...
Published: Wednesday, April 09, 2025
As we approach the first 100 days of the new Government, the National Women’s Council (NWC) today (9th April) called on them to deliver on their childcare election promises. NWC said that the voters are still waiting for significant...
Published: Tuesday, April 08, 2025
The Private Members Bill Prohibition of Advertising or Importuning Sex for Rent Bill 2025, introduced by Labour Senator Laura Harmon in the Seanad puts a much needed spotlight on the devastating impact of sex for rent exploitation on vulnerable women and...
Published: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
The National Women’s Council (NWC) today (26th March 2025) welcomed the long-awaited publication of the Review of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 and highlighted the important role of the legislation in achieving a zero tolerance approach...
Published: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
30 years ago, 189 governments from across the world signed the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which became the most comprehensive and visionary agenda ever for gender equality and the human rights of all women and girls. Marking Beijing’s 3...
Published: Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Marking the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action at the CSW in New York next week, the National Women’s Council (NWC) and the Irish Consortium on Gender Based Violence will hold an event ‘GBV Survivors...
Published: Thursday, March 06, 2025
Since the Brexit referendum in 2016, conversations about the constitutional future of the island of Ireland have gained momentum. In this pivotal time, women must be key architects of Ireland’s future and the crucial issues they are facing, such...
Published: Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Most of our trips in Ireland are taken by car, but 68% of all trips are for distances of less than 10km. (National Household Travel Survey (2023) Providing active and public transport is key to tackling the climate emergency but to achieve...
Published: Tuesday, February 11, 2025
50 women thought leaders from across the island of Ireland gathered in Dublin today (Tuesday, 11th February) to explore and elevate women’s perspectives on the future of the island of Ireland through a feminist lens. The gathering was the...
Published: Friday, February 07, 2025
The National Women’s Council (NWC) today (7th February) welcomed the nomination of 7 women by the Taoiseach to the Seanad as a step to address women’s underrepresentation in our Oireachtas. However, the overall picture...
Published: Thursday, January 30, 2025
On Wednesday, 29 January, the Women’s Mental Health Network, a collaboration between St Patrick’s Mental Health Services and the National Women’s Council (NWC), is hosting an event to explore the intersection between long-term physical health...
The National Women’s Council (NWC) today expressed its deep disappointment at the significant gender imbalance in the new Government. There are only six women amongst the record number of 23 Junior Ministers. This follows the decision to decrease the...
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Alliance of over 40 organisations reminds newly elected TDs of their election promises 18th December 2024 Under the slogan ‘All we want for Christmas is public childcare’, the campaign alliance, Together for Public, gathered outside Leinster House today (Wednesday, 18th...
Published: Friday, December 13, 2024
The Gender Quotas Alliance has written to all new TDs, party leaders, and General Secretaries to call for urgent action on women’s representation in politics. The alliance, which is led by the National Women’s Council (NWC)...
Published: Wednesday, December 11, 2024
While the forthcoming pension auto-enrolment scheme will increase pension coverage, it will not address the structural inequalities faced by women in our pension system and may even make them worse. This is one of the key findings of a new...
Published: Thursday, December 05, 2024
Feminist Communities for Climate Justice (FCCJ) – a joint project between the National Women’s Council (NWC) and Community Work Ireland (CWI) – today (5th December) hosted a webinar Safe, Warm, Green: Towards Energy Justice that highlighted the gendered...
Published: Monday, December 02, 2024
No breakthrough for women in General Election 2024 National Women’s Council calls for Local Election gender quotas to ensure pipeline for women into politics Press Release, 2nd December 2024 Responding to the results of the...
Published: Tuesday, November 26, 2024
National Women’s Council and Women’s Aid Federation NI launch new report examining the issue of domestic violence across the island 26 November Today (26 November) the National Women’s Council (NWC) and Women’s Aid...
Published: Thursday, November 21, 2024
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWC) and Women for Election are calling on general election candidates to commit to increasing women’s representation in the next Dáil term. NWC have highlighted 10 key asks for...
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