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Published: Monday, May 12, 2025
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, we are at the forefront of campaigning for women...
Published: Wednesday, January 12, 2011
On the 19th December, 1984 article 4 of the EEC Directive 79/7 should have been implemented in Ireland. The principle was equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security. Ireland did not for whatever reason; implement this directive in December 1984,...
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has urged girls to marry at 16 to help keep Satan at bay.His call is another controversial, if implicit, rejection of his country's highly praised family planning policy that was sanctioned by senior Islamic clerics two...
Published: Monday, January 10, 2011
The 13th December 2010 was a day of great celebration in Ruhama. The reason for the festivity was the graduation ceremony for 28 women in our service, who all received their certificates for completing the Ruhama/Dignity Pre-training programme.The courses were...
Published: Saturday, January 08, 2011
Smashing Times Theatre Company is delighted to announce details of theirone-day Reconciliation and Equality through Drama Seminar on Friday 14th ofJanuary 2011 in the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co.Donegal. TheSeminar is a celebration and exploration of the potential of artisticprocesses...
Published: Tuesday, January 04, 2011
The Medical Research Charities Group (MRCG) is a collective of charities, which seeks to further medical research in Ireland. Sightsavers International forms part of the MRCG, and as such has lobbied successfully for the Health Research Board (HRB) to co-fund...
Published: Wednesday, December 22, 2010
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Published: Monday, December 20, 2010
It is now up to a new government to legislate for limited abortion, leading feminist and academic Ailbhe Smyth told a pro-choice rally in Dublin yesterday.The group which organised the rally, Feminist Open Forum, told the few dozen people...
Published: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
NATIONAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL WELCOMES EUROPEAN COURT RULING AND CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO LEGISLATE FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO FULL REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.The National Women's Council of Ireland welcomes the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that Ireland has failed...
Published: Monday, December 13, 2010
The National Women's Council of Ireland applauds the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland (CPA) who recently recognised the need to address the gender balance issue in the accounting profession.Speaking at the 2010 graduation ceremony in the Helix on...
Published: Thursday, December 09, 2010
Moving Worlds: Cinemas of Migration Film Festival kicked off last night with a premiere screening of Neukölln Unlimited to a packed audience and with Hassan and Lial Akkouch, the stars of the film, in conversation with Dil Wickremasinghe from...
EDA, (Ethical Development Action) invites you to the next public talk on the most pressing current issue:Who is bailing who out?Ireland, the EU and the IMFJoin us for a discussion about our future at the Victoria Hotel, Patrick...
On further consultation with our barrister we decided to appeal the High Court decision. This appeal was heard in Supreme Court. This court decided that the case should be referred once again to the European Court of Justice for consideration...
Published: Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Snowy greetings friends!Women's Therapy Centre Christmas cards are now available for purchase - actually, the cards can be used for many occasions so more reason to buy them!By purchasing these cards you will be supporting the work of...
You are invited to partake in a spectacle of 'Defiance and Hope' on Friday night @ 7pm. It is a creative colourful radical demonstration organised by a broad range of communities to reflect how the heart is being torn out of...
As we speak, the government is rapidly moving to ram through a serious cut to the national minimum wage. The proposed cut would slash €40 a week from the household budgets of tens of thousands of working families across Ireland --...
Published: Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Drastic cuts will condemn families on the breadline to a life of poverty, hunger and homelessness, charities and campaigners claimed tonight.Children's rights activist Norah Gibbons claimed cuts on the poorest who survive on low incomes and social welfare will...
Published: Monday, December 06, 2010
5 December 2010 By Susan Lynch in the Sunday Business PostThe abolition of certain tax reliefs and cuts in social welfare and the minimum wage will draw the ire of both ends of the earning spectrumWhile it is almost inconceivable to imagine...
LENIHAN'S BUDGET IS BAD FOR WOMEN, BAD FOR CHILDREN, BAD FOR THE ECONOMY, SAYS NATIONAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF IRELAND.A recent poll showed that 8 out of 10 Irish people would favour some sort of Wealth Tax. Yet the government persists in...
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security - The background to the development of Ireland's National Action PlanCurrently the Irish Government, led by the Department of Foreign Affairs, is developing Ireland's National Action Plan on United Nation's...
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