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Cliff Edge Coalition Update

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…

Women’s Voices in Peacebuilding: The Unfinished Work of the Peace Process

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…

WOMENSTEC attends North South Ministerial Council Meeting

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…

Equality Commission for NI Draft Monitoring Framework

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…

Zero Hours Contracts Bill

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…

Call for Views – Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy and Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy

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…

Women Breaking Barriers: Powerful Motivational Programme Available

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…

LEADING US INTO THE FUTURE: YOUNG WOMEN’S IDEAS FOR CLIMATE, GENDER JUSTICE AND PEACE AND SECURITY

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,…

Women Delivering Change: WRC Conference 14.03.22

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…

WRC Raises Unrealistic Response Time Frames with the Committee for the Economy

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…

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