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Spain’s stolen babies and the families who lived a lie

Published: Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Spanish society has been shaken by allegations of the theft and trafficking of thousands of babies by nuns, priests and doctors, which started under Franco and continued up to the 1990s.I first met Manoli Pagador in Getafe, in a...

The National Women’s Council of Ireland Presidential Questionnaire

Published: Tuesday, October 18, 2011

 The NWCI have submitted a questionnaire to all the Presidential Candidates to see how far up on their agenda women's issues are. The questions put forward are as follows:  What major intiatives will you conduct as President to advance women's...

The Community Platform on Vincent Browne

Published: Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The Community Platform appeared on the Vincent Browne show on Monday 11th October to discuss the alternative strategy to the States current financial crisis they have produced.Appearing on the show were:Michael Taft, an economist with UniteJoan Mulvihill, CEO...

Interview with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf by NWCI CEO Susan McKay

Published: Sunday, October 09, 2011

There's a huge billboard on the junction just outside Liberia's Department of Foreign Affairs on the Atlantic seafront in the capital, Monrovia. 'Liberia shall rise again', it says, over a smiling photograph of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The first woman...

NWCI welcomes the announcement that three women have won the Nobel Prize

Published: Sunday, October 09, 2011

Three women who have campaigned for women's rights and an end to violence in Liberia and Yemen, including Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, won the Nobel Peace Prize today.Johnson-Sirleaf will share the prize with two other women - fellow Liberian,...

United Nations member states call on government to introduce laws to bring more women into politics

Published: Sunday, October 09, 2011

Press Release United Nations member states call on government to introduce laws to bring more women into politics. The National Women's Council of Ireland today welcomed recommendations to introduce parity legislation to bring more women into politics made to Minister...

NWCI warmly welcome new member Breffni Belles

Published: Tuesday, October 04, 2011

A warm welcome to our new Member - Breffni Belles Cavan Women's Network - who has just joined National Women's Council of Ireland!Click here to read more.....

Irish women can count their blessings that they don’t live in Saudi Arabia or Mali, but this country

Published: Monday, October 03, 2011

There are days when, despite everything, Ireland still feels like quite a good place to live.Days when the sun shines, days when you remember not to turn on the radio or open the economics pages.Days when you watch...

Irish Human Rights Commission & Law Society of Ireland

Published: Sunday, October 02, 2011

9th Annual Human Rights ConferenceIreland's Human Rights Record Under the SpotlightImplications of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review10am - 14.30, Saturday, 22 October 2011President's Hall, Law Society of Ireland, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7Keynote address: Anastasia Crickley, UN Committee for the Elimination...

SAFE Ireland Domestic Violence Services National Statistics 2010

Published: Tuesday, September 27, 2011

SAFE Ireland released their Domestice Violence Services National Statistics 2010 on September the 28th.7,235 individual women received support from Domestic Violence Services in 2010. But on over 3,236 occasions services were unable to accommodate women and their children because either the refuges were...

Front Line Defenders Mourns the Passing of Wangari Muta Maathai

Published: Monday, September 26, 2011

Front Line Defenders mourns the passing of Kenyan environmentalist and human rights defender Wangari Muta Maathai, who died of cancer yesterday.Click here to read more.....

Labour must stand side by side with women

Published: Monday, September 26, 2011

Female voters have been betrayed by the coalition. Labour must stop the clock being turned back.Rarely can there have been a group of voters who swung so far so fast. Polls suggest the drop in women's support for the...

Call to criminalise kerb crawlers

Published: Monday, September 26, 2011

The criminalisation of men who buy sex must be central to any strategy to combat prostitution, police experts from Sweden and Norway said in Dublin today.They are here at the invitation of the Immigrant Council of Ireland and Ruhama,...

Global Development podcast: gender equality

Published: Sunday, September 25, 2011

In the first of a new series of podcasts, we discuss what can be done to improve the lives of women and girls around the world - a major development challenge.Gender inequality remains one of the top development challenges...

Saudis bow to pressure and grant women right to vote

Published: Sunday, September 25, 2011

THE world's last bastion against female suffrage bowed to the forces of change when Saudi Arabia granted its female population the right to vote for the first time.The historic decision came after King Abdullah, the Saudi ruler, conceded that...

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