Civil society alliance calls for 40 per cent gender quota for local election candidates
New group, the Alliance for Gender Quotas at Local Level, brings together academics and advocates for Traveller, migrant and disabled women
National Women's Council Of Ireland
‘I can only get 9¼ hours of creche time for my daughter’: parents call for State-run childcare
National Women’s Council and 25 other organisations want pilot programme established
Childcare crisis should be addressed through publicly run system, says women’s council
National Women’s Council calls on Government to establish a pilot scheme in the budget with a view to taking direct control of provision over the longer term
Call for overhaul of mental health services for new mothers
National Women’s Council calls for strengthening of specialist perinatal mental health services
Women still underrepresented on councils amid online abuse and lack of support
Only one more female councillor sitting after latest elections compared to beforehand, with 677 women candidates having run and 247 of them securing seats
Landlords engaging in ‘sex for rent’ arrangements should be targeted by new laws - report
National Women’s Council finds it is ‘the most marginalised women who are impacted’
It is cheap and wrong to associate No voters with Ireland’s tiny number of fascists
The sneering backfired on the Yes side
Five reasons why the Yes side failed and the No campaign won the day
How the Government lost - and the No side won - the care and family referendums
If the care referendum is such a progressive change, why was the process such a travesty?
Even if the Government’s wording were not so wretched, there would be good grounds to vote against it to protest against the process of its creation
Yes vote in referendum would remove article that sought to ‘put women in their place’
Campaigners for Yes-Yes in Friday’s referendums host re-enactment of 1937 speeches opposing Article 41.2
Minister ‘absolutely confident’ rules on State funding have not been breached in referendum campaigns
Roderic O’Gorman predicts family and care referendums will pass
Who’s who? The Yes and No camps in the March 8th family and care referendums
Referendum countdown: Here is how many of the most prominent organisations recommend you vote - and why
Women’s groups opposed to NWCI stance call for No votes in referendums
Proposed changes would not help women and Government has not made ‘cogent argument’, Silenced Protest group says
Carers role wording in referendum ‘a step in the right direction’, says women’s council
Small group protests launch of campaign, calling for article in Constitution on State’s recognition of woman’s life within the home to remain
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