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Miss World met with protests at UK 60th anniversary show

Published: Sunday, November 06, 2011

Demonstrators gathered in Earls Court, west London, as the Miss World contest returned for its 60th anniversary show.The event is still watched by an estimated one billion people around the world, involving women from 113 countries.Kat Banyard, founder of...

Risking it all for the truth: exiled Colombian journalist Mary Luz Avendano

Published: Sunday, November 06, 2011

Colombia has been ravaged by an armed conflict lasting for almost 50 years.Paramilitary and guerrilla groups, drug traffickers and corrupt police have been trying to silence, by any means necessary, those journalists unwilling to be bribed to look the other...

Congratulations Michael D Higgins from mna na hEireann!

Published: Thursday, November 03, 2011

President elect Michael D Higgins has a long and distinguished track record of supporting women's rights as he showed in his responses to the NWCI's questionnaire in advance of the election. See below for the NWCI questionnaire and Michael D's...

Mary Ann Sieghart: Giving women power requires action

Published: Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Are women great at running the country? You bet.Four monarchs were voted into the top 25 of the BBC's Greatest Britons of all time. Three of them - Elizabeth I, Victoria and Elizabeth II - were female. Alfred the Great...

Cavan Members Meeting "Turn Off the Red Light"

Published: Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Following the success of our Cavan Members Meeting in association with Breffni Bells, you can now access the excellent presentations given by our panel of experts by clicking on the appropriate links below.To access Grainne Healy's presentation, click here.....

‘Missing girls’ far outweigh party politics

Published: Monday, October 31, 2011

IN SEPTEMBER, the World Bank published World Report 2012 - Gender Equality and Development. It highlighted both significant progress in areas like education, and "sticky areas" that are stubbornly slow to improve. One of these "sticky areas" is what it calls ...

Why women in radio are starting to talk back

Published: Monday, October 31, 2011

It's silly to get upset about awards ceremonies, we all know that. Every award, from the Turner prize to the Oscars, is just the result of four or five people getting together in a room, eating curly sandwiches, disagreeing with...

Community and Voluntary Pillar of Social Partnership meeting with Minister for Finance and Minister

Published: Thursday, October 27, 2011

The Community and Voluntary Pillar of Social Partnership, of which NWCI is a member, had a meeting this week with the Minister for Finance Mr. Michael Noonan and Mr. Brendan Howlin, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The NWCI used...

Prime Time looks at domestic abuse with NWCI CEO, Susan McKay

Published: Thursday, October 27, 2011

Edel McAllister reports on the difficulties that victims of domestic abuse are encountering when seeking refuge from violent relationships. Speaking on the show was Kathleen Lynch Minister of State, Department of Health and Department of Justice, Equality & Defence with...

IBM breaks new ground by selecting its first female chief

Published: Thursday, October 27, 2011

IBM global sales chief Virginia Rometty will take over as CEO from Sam Palmisano in January, becoming one of the most powerful women in business and technology today.In taking the helm of the storied industry icon, she makes it...

First woman to take up post of DPP

Published: Tuesday, October 25, 2011

THE NEXT Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will be Claire Loftus, who succeeds James Hamilton after his retirement on November 7th after 12 years in the position.Ms Loftus was educated in University College Dublin, and qualified as a solicitor in 1992....

Population Milestone of 7 Billion is a Call to Action for Investment in Equality, says UNFPA Report

Published: Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Last Wednesday, 26th October, the IFPA hosted the launch of the UNFPA flagship report, State of World's Population. The theme for 2011 was People and Possibilities in a World of 7 Billion.Press Release from the Irish Family Planning Association- Governments that...

OWN Fundraiser Fashion Show

Published: Tuesday, October 25, 2011

The Older Women's Network is a nonprofit organization which works for the concerns of women over 55 by helping to get their voices heard in legislation and in the community. Unfortunately, with the recent cut backs out funding has been cut....

Our generation needs to reclaim feminism

Published: Monday, October 24, 2011

A few years ago, Germaine Greer appeared on Never Mind The Buzzcocks. The feminist sat opposite the pop starlet Gabriella Cilmi, aged 17 at the time. "What do you think of feminism?," Simon Amstell asked Cilmi. Cilmi's response was to giggle,...

Women feel the heat as 33% are sole breadwinners

Published: Monday, October 24, 2011

THE increasing pressure on women to juggle family and work is highlighted in a new study which shows that more than a third of working women are the sole breadwinners in their household.The 2011 Pfizer Health Index, published yesterday, also...

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