OWN Campaigns

OWN actively participates in the Europa Donna Campaign for Breast Cancer Screening

OWN is a member of the Older and Bolder Campaign

OWN is currently undertaking research into Pensions and Older Women

OWN is a member of the Voices that Matter Campaign group advocating for core funding for networks and organisations that work at a national level to represent, empower, and respond to the needs of groups and communities experiencing poverty, exclusion, and inequality.

Other organisations represented include:

  1. Care Alliance Ireland
  2. Community Workers Co-operative
  3. Children in Hospital Group
  4. Dyslexia Association of Ireland
  5. European Anti-Poverty Network, Ireland
  6. Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed
  7. Irish Traveller Movement
  8. Migrants Rights Centre Ireland
  9. National Collective of Community-based Women’s Networks
  10. National Traveller Women’s Forum
  11. National Women’s Council of Ireland
  12. OPEN
  13. Rape Crisis Network
  14. Simon Communities of Ireland
  15. Stammering Ireland

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Did You Know?

In 2007, only 5.9% of Ministers of State, 21.4% of government ministers, 20% of the Seanad, and 13.3% of the Dail were women

Source: The way we are: Facts about Older Women in Ireland in 2008