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Published: Monday, March 11, 2024
Key to tackling structural gender inequalities is government investment in public services and social infrastructure. This is necessary for advancing women’s equality in Ireland and for the evolution of our society into a fair and equitable one. The National...
Published: Thursday, February 29, 2024
NWC submits that the state should move away from the aspects of the social protection system which are based on dependent payments such as the Increase for a Qualified Adult (IQA), towards a fully individualised social protection system where each...
Published: Wednesday, February 07, 2024
ActionAid Ireland and the National Women’s Council have jointly launched a report, a Feminist Vision of Care and Equality, which shows inextricable links between care, gender and economic inequality both at a global and national level. Significantly more care...
Published: Tuesday, February 06, 2024
As part of the Feminist Communities for Climate Justice project, a team of researchers from the Department of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork – Dr. Fiona Dukelow, Dr. Catherine Forde, and Edith Busteed – created a baseline review of Irish...
Published: Friday, December 08, 2023
With support from Community Foundation Ireland, the National Observatory on Violence against Women and Girls have produced Ireland’s first monitoring report on the implementation of the first year of the Third National Strategy (June 2022-June 2023). The purpose of this...
Published: Tuesday, November 21, 2023
The National Women’s Council provided feedback to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment’s draft specification for Senior Cycle Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) curriculum which is being updated and will be in place in September 2024. In...
Published: Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Read our Post Budget Analysis to find out what Budget 2024 means for women
Published: Friday, October 13, 2023
Budget 2024 has significant positive elements for women, including investment in childcare and funding to tackle violence against women, an extension of child benefit and free secondary school books. However, it is a short-term budget that will not advance gender equality,...
Published: Tuesday, October 03, 2023
Budget 2024 presents the Government with an extraordinary opportunity to invest in a future for Ireland which is sustainable, just, caring and fair – a future where the state leads in tackling gender inequalities head-on, and one in which no woman is...
Published: Sunday, October 01, 2023
NWC Submission to the Task Force on Safe Participation in Political Life
Published: Wednesday, September 27, 2023
On 25 September, the National Women’s Council made a written submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. This is ahead of Ireland's State Report that Government will submit to the Committee in 2024. This report will outline...
Published: Monday, September 25, 2023
Final audited accounts for the National Women's Council of Ireland 2022
Published: Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Published: Tuesday, September 12, 2023
NWC welcomes the opportunity to make a written submission to the Task force on Safe Participation in Political Life, having particular regard to the challenges women, including minority and marginalised women face in politics today.
Published: Friday, June 16, 2023
This research examines current best practices in gender-sensitive mental health care, maps current practices and gaps in practices in Ireland and, based on the findings from the literature and qualitative research carried out for this report, identifies comprehensive recommendations for...
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