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# Women's Rights

This year
2024
Dr Mary McAuliffe: The details of Ann Lovett's tragic death are still harrowing 40 years on
Mary McAuliffe
31 Jan
18.2k
36
Last year
2023
Dozens of Afghan women blocked from leaving to study on scholarships in the UAE
24 Aug 2023
13.9k
50
UN finds no progress on biases against women in a decade despite global rights movements
12 Jun 2023
5.1k
31
Hundreds march through Dublin on International Women's Day
8 Mar 2023
15.3k
17
Analysis: The six-month rule for Mother and Baby Homes redress does not add up
Seán Beatty
31 Jan 2023
7.0k
4
All time
Iran ousted from UN women's rights body over protest crackdown
14 Dec 2022
7.2k
4
American VP Harris moves to remove Iran from UN women's commission
2 Nov 2022
11.3k
11
Ruth Coppinger: Savita 10 years on - why we need a permanent memorial
Ruth Copppinger
Updated 14 Oct 2022
15.3k
15
Analysis: The rights of women and girls in Ireland have come a long way - here's how far
Emma Bowie & Oileán Carter-Stritch
Updated 11 Oct 2022
20.8k
39
Opinion: It's time we designed a better politics for women that benefits us all
Peter Burke
28 Jun 2022
6.4k
11
'A step backward for women's rights': America reacts as Roe v. Wade is overturned
Updated 24 Jun 2022
30.9k
50
Women TV presenters defy Taliban order to cover faces on air
21 May 2022
25.4k
16
Roe v Wade: What you need to know about the 1973 case that enshrined US abortion rights
3 May 2022
13.1k
64
UN to review Ireland's record on human rights, conversion therapy and Traveller discrimination
10 Nov 2021
13.4k
4
Only boys will restart secondary school in Afghanistan tomorrow
17 Sep 2021
41.1k
35
As the Taliban cement their position, they've been making clear their views on the role of women
12 Sep 2021
43.5k
24
'We need enormous effort': Coveney leads UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan in New York
Updated 9 Sep 2021
22.8k
32
Afghan women stage protest outside presidential palace in Kabul
3 Sep 2021
17.1k
16
Tom Clonan: The Irish Army Ranger Wing face a treacherous Kabul - but they are highly trained
Tom Clonan
25 Aug 2021
42.1k
61
'We fear what is coming': Women in Kabul speak out as Taliban takes back control
18 Aug 2021
22.2k
34
GP: My patients do not need to see your placards with your value judgements
Dr Brian Kennedy
12 Aug 2021
34.1k
105
Turkey criticised for pulling out of landmark treaty protecting women
20 Mar 2021
23.6k
32
Holly Cairns: The gender pay gap is a scandal - we must resolve to end it
Holly Cairns
10 Mar 2021
14.9k
53
Citizens' Assembly meets to discuss constitution clause on ‘women in the home’
13 Feb 2021
22.6k
50
'It didn’t matter to her that the establishment might be upset': How Marian Finucane brought women's stories to the fore
3 Jan 2020
20.7k
22
First Citizens' Assembly weekend on gender equality to be held in February
19 Nov 2019
8.4k
23
El Salvador: Woman who was jailed after her baby was stillborn is acquitted in court
20 Aug 2019
30.6k
18
'Girls are forced to have sex in exchange for sanitary pads or 50 cents'
23 Jul 2019
78.5k
17
Taoiseach says there is an 'epidemic' of violence against women
Updated 8 Mar 2019
26.8k
80
Opinion: It is time for change in the Catholic church and that starts with equality for women
Colm Holmes
22 Feb 2019
15.7k
174
11 emotional tweets about this week's historic repealing of the Eighth Amendment
14 Dec 2018
4.6k
4
Cost of rolling out abortion services in Ireland will be 'significant', says Harris
Updated 27 Sep 2018
21.8k
107
'A towering figure in the struggle': Tributes after death of women's rights campaigner Sylvia Meehan
6 Sep 2018
16.1k
11
Government accused of trying to 'press gang' committee to delete Constitutional women in the home reference
3 Sep 2018
15.0k
48
'Putting our shameful past behind us': Mother and baby home forum meets for the first time
26 Jul 2018
9.7k
67
'She was living in a derelict building dripping with damp under a tin roof. The year was 1998'
Anne Roper
19 Jun 2018
50.8k
45
President Higgins unveils plaque at Dublin Castle where an Irish suffragette smashed a window
13 Jun 2018
11.7k
26
Women's rights activists arrested ahead of Saudi driving ban lift
19 May 2018
15.4k
52
How people in Cork are fighting back against FGM
18 Mar 2018
25.8k
24
'Unacceptable sexist behaviour': Spanish women stage unprecedented strike for rights
8 Mar 2018
15.4k
54
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