Some impressions from our International Women's Day celebration with the newly elected women for the 32nd Dail
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Call for papers for inter-institutional conferences taking place at NUI Galway and UCD next October as part of the arts...
Tuesday, April 05, 2016
In response to media reports that a woman in Northern Ireland received a suspended sentence for procuring abortion pills over...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) today called for the medical records of the 700 women who applied...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Our annual International Women's Day Soapbox was a special one this year, commemorating the women of 1916, and examining what...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) has today called the childcare crisis to be a red line...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
NWCI has today expressed grave concern that the accessor to the symphysiotomy scheme, Maureen Harding Clark, has reaffirmed her intention...
Friday, March 04, 2016
International Women’s Day (8th March) originated from the trade union movement in America in the early 20th century,...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
A new sample training pack, "Recognising and Challenging our Unconscious Bias", has been launched this month by the National Women'...
The Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, with a platform of 50 organisations, has reiterated the importance of including a referendum...
Sunday, February 14, 2016
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) asked leaders of the main political parties in Ireland to outline...
Saturday, February 13, 2016
The National Women’s Council of Ireland has welcomed the introduction of two weeks’ paid paternity leave,...
Applications are now open for places on UCD's MA Women, Gender and Society. ...
The Community Platform is a network of 28 of the main national organisations working to address poverty, social exclusion, and inequality....
One in five women in Ireland experience domestic violence and in 2014 Women’s Aid heard over 22,000 disclosures of emotional,...
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Are you a feminist and think you have something to say? NWCI would like to invite members of the public...
Sunday, March 27, 2016
100 years after 1916, what do we have to celebrate? This Easter Sunday, it is critical that we recognise and celebrate...
Thursday, February 25, 2016
NWCI has asked leaders from the main political parties to outline what they will do to advance women's rights...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Thursday, January 21, 2016
As part of our #FemGen election campaign, and following on from the launch of our Beakthrough Manifesto for Women, NWCI...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016
Gender quota legislation passed by the Irish Parliament in 2012 specifies that at least 30% of party candidates for general elections should...
Thursday, December 10, 2015
In our rush to push away violent men as 'other-than-us' we are often blinded to how our actions can facilitate...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
The stark reality of this violence has been very prominent this year with the horrendous murders of Natalie McGuinness, of...
Monday, August 31, 2015
Girls like pink and boys like blue – this stereotyping starts from the moment we are born, but it gets...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
This week's Women in History blog is about a woman often referred to in passing, but one I never...
Wednesday, July 01, 2015
The enactment of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014, as well as establishing the merged Irish Human Rights...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Yes, you are reading both a male and female name on this week’s article. This is the incredible...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
In the fifth installment of NWCI's "Sharing Stories of Women in History" series, this week we will look at...
