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** NEW ** We have gathered together links to information on the gender impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on national, EU and international sources. See our Compendium of resources: the gender impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and gender-sensitive responses page.

The 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action will be marked worldwide in 2020. A comprehensive national review of Ireland's response to these commitments was submitted in 2019. This report, as well as Ireland's previous reports, are available on our Beijing +25 page.

For current information on progress towards gender equality in Ireland, see the CSO Men and Women in Ireland Report 2016. Follow Ireland's gender-sensitive implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in progress reports and on the SDG data portal. For gender statistics relevant to Ireland's progress under the Beijing Platform for Action, see the EU EIGE Gender Statistics Database.

The National Strategy for Women and Girls 2017-2020 is the whole-of-government framework through which actions to advance the rights of women and girls are being pursued. A Strategy Committee advises on implementation and reporting progress.

For information on Discovering Women in Irish History see the Scoilnet resource provided by the Department of Education and Skills. In 2018, the Houses of the Oireachtas marked the one hundredth anniversary of the giving of voting rights to women and the resulting women in Parliament through the Vótáil100 / Mná san Oireachtas programme of events which took place throughout 2018, with further details on the Oireachtas website.

CURRENT NEWS and EVENTS

Saturday 25 January 2020

Inaugural meeting of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality and public consultation

The Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality (the Assembly) is meeting today in Dublin Castle for the first time to begin the process of advancing gender equality. They are guided in this work by the Oireachtas resolution passed in July 2019 that established the Assembly. All of the Assembly’s public proceedings will be live streamed on its website, www.citizensassembly.ie, in English and as Gaeilge.

A public consultation inviting any person, group or organisation with views on achieving greater gender equality to contribute them to the work of the Assembly will be opened on Monday 27 January and will close on Friday, March 6th. Further details will be available on the Assembly’s website (www.citizensassembly.ie). Chairperson of the Assembly, Dr Catherine Day encouraged contributions expressing the hope that ”we hear from as broad a range of opinions and voices as possible. All of the submissions received by the Assembly will be published on our website”.

For further details please see the Press Release.

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