Back Coalició de Dones d'Irlanda del Nord Catalan Coalición de Mujeres de Irlanda del Norte Spanish شمالی آئرلینڈ خواتین کا اتحاد Urdu
Northern Ireland Women's Coalition | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Leader | Monica McWilliams Pearl Sagar |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Dissolved | 2006 |
| Ideology | Non-sectarianism |
The Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC) was a minor cross-community[1][2] political party in Northern Ireland from 1996 to 2006.[3]
The NIWC was founded by Catholic academic Monica McWilliams and Protestant social worker Pearl Sagar to contest elections to the Northern Ireland Forum, the body for all-party talks which led to the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement.
The party campaigned principally around the fact that it was led by women, declining to take a position on whether Northern Ireland should be part of the United Kingdom or a United Ireland.[4] It did not identify as feminist.[5]
- ^ Molinari, Véronique (2007). "Putting Women in the Picture : the Impact of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition on Northern Irish Politics". Études Irlandaises. 32: 109–126. doi:10.3406/irlan.2007.1788. Archived from the original on 5 June 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ "NI Women's Coalition". BBC News. 19 March 2001. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ "Women in Politics and the Northern Ireland Assembly- Barriers and Challenges: Ms Jane Morrice". 7 October 2014. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ [1] Archived 24 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine Conciliation Resources website article by Kate Fearon (2002), "Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition: institutionalizing a political voice and ensuring representation"
- ^ "North's alternative women are ready and willing to talk". The Irish Times. 17 May 1996. Archived from the original on 23 September 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2021.