Shifting the Narrative: Annual Report 2022

Published: Tuesday, June 06, 2023

NWC's Annual Report 2022 provides an overview of our key events, campaigns and activities throughout the year.

Social media and online hostility

Published: Tuesday, May 16, 2023

'Social media and online hostility: Experiences of women in Irish journalism', a new research report by Dr Dawn Wheatley from the School of Communications at Dublin City University, describes how women journalists in Ireland are navigating social media as part...

Report: the Intersection of Criminal Justice, Family Law and Law Child Care re DV & sexual violence

Published: Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Read the Report on the Intersection of the Criminal Justice, Private Family Law and Public Law Child Care Processes in relation to Domestic and Sexual Violence, commissioned by NWC in collaboration and funded by the Department of Justice. The research...

Towards A Zero Tolerance Approach - A Good Practice Guide

Published: Tuesday, April 25, 2023

NWC are proud to publish "Towards A Zero Tolerance Approach: A Good Practice Guide to the implementation of "Safe, Respectful, Supportive and Positive – Ending Sexual Violence and Harassment in Higher Education" (the Framework)." The Good Practice Guide has been supported...

NWC Audited Accounts 2023

Published: Monday, July 08, 2024

Final audited accounts for the National Women's Council of Ireland 2023

Perinatal Mental Health: Listening to Women and Shaping the Road Ahead

Published: Friday, July 05, 2024

Pre-Budget Submission 2025 Summary Document

Published: Wednesday, July 03, 2024

Summary Document for Pre-Budget Submission 2025

Pre-Budget Submission 2025

Published: Wednesday, July 03, 2024

Budget 2025, as the last budget of this current Government, provides an opportunity to shape the next five years and lay the groundwork for significant advances in gender equality. Government must be ambitious and feminist in their approach to Budget 2025, making...

NWC Submission on the Draft Primary Curriculum Specification

Published: Monday, June 17, 2024

The National Women’s Council provided feedback on the Wellbeing curriculum, specifically focusing on Social, Personal, and Health Education (SPHE), as part of the consultation process for the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment’s Draft Primary Curriculum Specifications. In...

Submission on the European Semester and Ireland’s National Reform Programme 2024

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...

Submission on reform of means-testing and Increase for a Qualified Adult, JOC on Social Protection

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...

Post Budget 2024 Analysis Snapshot

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,...

The Women’s Budget: Pre-Budget Submission 2024

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...

NWC Submission to the Task Force on Safe Participation in Political Life

Published: Sunday, October 01, 2023

NWC Submission to the Task Force on Safe Participation in Political Life

NWC Audited Accounts 2022

Published: Monday, September 25, 2023

Final audited accounts for the National Women's Council of Ireland 2022