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After 23 years working in the National Women’s Council (NWC), the Director, Orla O’Connor, will step down from her role in the coming months to take up a new position as Executive Director of St...
Published: Saturday, November 27, 2010
Sonas Housing Association are launching Viva House, a new women's refuge in Dublin 15. The launch takes place on Friday, 10th December at 10am in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Blanchardstown. The launch coincides with the final day of the International 16 Days...
Irish Breast Cancer Campaign's new issue of "EDI News" is available nowFor a print copy of the newsletter please contact info@europadonnaireland.ie or phone 01-4960198.
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 <...
'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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Published: Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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...
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...
Published: Monday, November 22, 2010
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....
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...
Published: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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...
Published: Monday, November 15, 2010
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,...
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...
Published: Saturday, November 13, 2010
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...
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...
Published: Tuesday, November 09, 2010
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...
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...
"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...
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