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Calls for more transparency in Magdalene investigation

Published: Wednesday, July 13, 2011

CONCERNS have been raised that the terms of reference for the inter-departmental committee to investigate state interaction with the Magdalene Laundries have yet to be made public.The Justice for Magdalenes (JFM) group has written to Justice Minister Alan Shatter...

Bill would impose jail for female genital mutilation

Published: Wednesday, July 13, 2011

LEGISLATION TO prevent female genital mutilation "is the first step to ensuring this practice does not take hold in Ireland", Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has told the Dáil. Introducing the Bill, he described the practice of the...

Wallace sorry for ‘Miss Piggy’ jibe

Published: Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Wexford TD Mick Wallace has apologised to a Dáil colleague after he was caught calling her "Miss Piggy" in an exchange with two fellow Independents.Mick Wallace was heard muttering the remark about Fine Gael's Dún Laoghaire TD...

A clear framework for tackling female genital mutilation

Published: Tuesday, July 12, 2011

It was refreshing to read the article by Hugh Muir on the approach to female genital mutilation in the UK (Hideously diverse Britain, 5 July). I have worked on FGM in Britain for around 30 years, helping to put it on the...

Y Lead? Young Irish Female Leaders in Irish Society.

Published: Monday, July 11, 2011

Y-Lead is a video project aimed at profiling young women from across Irish society who are leading their communities. The videos are designed to inspire and empower young women to be leader's themselves, as well as praising the work of...

Women and the work place

Published: Sunday, July 10, 2011

Eskimos don't actually have hundreds of words for snow. In fact, it's the Lapp people of northern Europe who do.Likewise, in Italian, there's no direct translation for the term 'politically correct'.True, the Italians will sometimes wrap their tongues...

Dismay as low waged workers are left in a limbo

Published: Thursday, July 07, 2011

Yesterday's decision by the High Court that the JLC (Joint Labour Committee) system for setting wages is unconstitutional has been widely condemned.Among the 200,000 effected by this ruling, the implications for women in Ireland will be serious."Failure to protect...

Sudanese journalist jailed for reporting rape women’s rape claim

Published: Thursday, July 07, 2011

A journalist has been jailed for a month by a court in northern Sudan after she reported the claim by youth activist Safiya Eshaq that she was raped by Khartoum security forces (see WVoN story).Fatima Ghazali, a reporter at...

Glass ceiling a persistent reality in many of Iseq’s big-name companies

Published: Thursday, July 07, 2011

The majority of board memberships, executive and non-executive are still held by menDESPITE THE changing nature of gender relations in the workplace over the last few decades, corporate Ireland remains a predominantly male domain.An analysis of the board configuration...

Urgent Appeal on behalf of imprisoned doctors in Bahrain

Published: Tuesday, July 05, 2011

CRISIS IN BAHRAIN - As the human rights crisis continues in Bahrain Front Line is deeply concerned about the ongoing prosecution of doctors and nurses who are facing the prospect of prison sentences simply because they treated injured demonstrators during...

Millions of women have no access to justice, says UN

Published: Tuesday, July 05, 2011

MORE THAN 50 per cent of working women globally, 600 million, are trapped in insecure jobs without legal protection, according to the first report of the new agency UN Women.A similar number do not have even basic protection against domestic violence,...

Women in Northern Ireland ‘back to 1950s’ in recession: ‘rebalance’ needed

Published: Monday, July 04, 2011

Women in Northern Ireland are being driven back into the household by the global recession, according to a new report which likens the current situation to that of the 1950s.The report, 'Women on the Edge of the NI Economy',...

EU report on fundamental rights of ‘irregular migrants’

Published: Monday, July 04, 2011

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has today published a report on the fundamental rights of irregular migrants who are employed as domestic workers in the European Union (EU).Most irregular migrants in domestic work are women.The...

We Are Men: Changing how young men think

Published: Monday, July 04, 2011

Will talking about rape through songs and a Jackass-style video change how young men think? Joan Smith looks at a campaign aiming to find outA young man tries to vault a parking meter and falls flat on his face. A...

Magdalene pension claim supported by ‘ample evidence’

Published: Sunday, July 03, 2011

THERE IS already "ample evidence" of the State's involvement in the Magdalene laundries for these women to at least receive pensions for the years of unpaid work they carried out, a meeting of the Irish Women Survivors Support Network in...

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