Siobhán continues to work as part of the Working Group for the Cliff Edge Coalition on extending and strengthening the welfare mitigations package in Northern Ireland. Following the collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive Cliff Edge continue to monitor the progress of the welfare mitigations legislation through the Assembly. The legislation to extend the Bedroom […]
The National Women’s Council (NWC) All-Island Women’s Forum met last week in Enniskillen where women from all across the Island of Ireland discussed the importance of women’s voices in peacebuilding and ensuring reconciliation remains central to our future. Our Engagement Officer Paula McAliskey who is a member of the All-Island Forum attended the conference on behalf of […]
WOMEN’STEC, along with other civic society leaders were invited to meet the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney T.D. at the North South Ministerial Council in Armagh on 17th February. Our #NotJustForBoys Project Lead, Una McCabe represented WOMEN’STEC on this occasion. Also in attendance was Tara Farrell, (CEO Longford Women’s Link), Jacinta Linden (CEO Bolster […]
The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland Measuring Equality in Northern Ireland – Draft Monitoring Framework for consultation is now open until Friday 5th April. This framework will enable the Equality Commission to identify emerging inequalities and track improvements over time, in relation to persistent and deep-rooted inequalities on the lives of people in Northern Ireland. The Commission plans to […]
Siobhán has submitted a Consortium response to this Bill in the form of a letter. The Consortium welcomed the aims of the Bill to end the use of zero-hour contracts and making exclusivity terms unenforceable. However, while it is important to ban these type of contracts it does not deal with other issues in the […]
The Department of Justice has issued two Calls for Views on issues to help inform the content, themes and overall direction of a new Domestic and Sexual Abuse strategy and a Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy. The Equally Safe Strategy (a Strategy to tackle Violence Against Women and Girls) this is intended to tackle […]
The Women Breaking Barriers programme, of which NIRWN is a partner organisation, is currently offering women throughout NI the opportunity to participate in the GOALS programme GOALS is a powerful 2 day motivational programme with a strong employability focus that teaches participants easy tailor-made techniques for sustainably raising their self-esteem and increasing resilience alongside practical help getting back into work, education […]
A side event of CSW66 Wednesday 16 March, 6am EST/ 10am GMT/ 11 am CET/ 12pm Central Africa time and EET /1pm East Africa time Virtual NGO CSW Parallel Forum event organised in collaboration with Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, Gender Action for Peace and Security and Women’s Resource and Development Agency Climate justice is […]
Don’t miss this opportunity have your voice heard. You can sign up here. At our Women Delivering Change Conference you will have the opportunity to ask questions to a panel of MLAs. The questions you ask will be developed by the Consortium into a resource accessible to all women in Northern Ireland. Women will be able […]
This is an excerpt of the WRC response. You can read the full letter here. We wish to raise concerns about the length of time available to respond to this call for views (Employment Bill). While we welcome having the opportunity to respond to this important legislation we have concerns about the process in terms […]
