The Department of Justice are consulting on Improving the effectiveness of Hate Crime legislation in Northern Ireland. They want to hear views on this consultation from victims of hate crime and voluntary and community sector organisations supporting victims of hate crime. The Department of Justice is using this public consultation on Hate Crime Legislation to […]
Siobhán has now completed a final draft of the ‘Women Living with Debt’ research paper. It is now being signed off by the Consumer Council who have provided some funding for this research. It is hoped that the final paper will be published sometime in April 2022. The research paper contains a significant amount of […]
Louise Coyle took part in a briefing to the AERA Committee on research into the Rural Development Programme LEADER Structure and on work being done on the new Rural Policy Framework on 3rd March 2022. The research was jointly commissioned by NIRWN and RCN and has been undertaken by Professor Ruth McAreavey from University of […]
The Consortium’s first conference and annual report launch was held on the 14th of March in Parliament Buildings at Stormont. Patricia Lewsley-Mooney CBE, Chair of our lead partner, TWN opened the conference and delegates had the chance to learn more about how the Assembly operates from the Stormont Engage Now team. Anne McVicker, Director of […]
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 […]
