international women’s day

International Women's Day: Food for Thought.

On International Women’s Day, we offer 5 points of reflection on the state of women’s human rights in Ireland: A series of savage budgets has hollowed out welfare payments crucial to the survival of Ireland’s poorest women and their children and undermined service provision in areas such as family planning assistance and gender equality advocacy.(…)

International Women's Day and the Women's Charter

Today is International Women’s Day. The UN’s Theme for the Day is ‘Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All‘. A directory of Irish events to mark the day is available here. On March 5, the President of the European Commission launched a ‘Women’s Charter‘, which aims at building a gender perspective into all Commission policies(…)

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