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Summary of key issues discussed on the Assembly floor and in committee chambers.
NICVA | Sean Kelly | 25 Sep 2007

Age Awareness Week which highlights issues of discrimination which affect older people to the rest of society.

The Centre on Human Rights for Disabled People wants to see the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The Cedar Foundation is asking people from all over Northern Ireland to undertake a once in a lifetime challenge while raising funds for disabled people in Northern Ireland.

Women’s Aid Federation Northern Ireland has launched a major new programme to support women and children affected by domestic violence. Entitled You and Me, Mum the programme recognises that rebuilding relationships after domestic violence is an intensely personal process.

The Consultative Group on the Past wants your views on what steps should be taken to support Northern Ireland society in building a shared future that is not overshadowed by the events of the past.

The Volunteer Development Agency is delighted to announce funding for the Millennium Volunteers programme to develop youth volunteering in Northern Ireland.

The development of a National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is currently underway in the Republic of Ireland. The National Steering Committee on Education for Sustainable Development has appointed ECO-UNESCO as consultants for the development of the National Strategy.

Equality Commission welcomes the High Court decision on the application for judicial review of the making of the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Economy Minister Nigel Dodds recently launched a new Invest NI initiative in North Belfast that will focus on encouraging entrepreneurship in the area. The Exploring Enterprise Programme in North Belfast is part of a wider £1m initiative which aims to raise awareness of enterprise and the possibility of self-employment.

The Community Safety Unit of the Northern Ireland Office has commissioned Age Concern and Help the Aged to organise four listening events across Northern Ireland.

A Belfast woman who was employed by Action Cancer has been awarded £30,892 by an Industrial Tribunal which found that she suffered sex discrimination in a recruitment exercise and was unfairly dismissed from her post with the charity.

The NICVA Link Awards 2008 have been launched by Seamus McAleavey, chief executive of NICVA and Chris Clark, chief executive officer of BT Ireland.

The Department for Social Development is not going to supply details of the scoring matrix referred to in the guidelines document for applying to the Modernisation Fund Capital Grants programme.

As the MLAs are ready to do business at Stormont after the summer recess, the latest NICVA members’ day on 14 September focussed on the opportunities for voluntary and community organisations to get their issues on the agenda of the re-established Assembly.

People in the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland are backing energy conservation and renewable energy rather than a big technological fix.

The Mini Grants Scheme is aimed at organisations or networks with an interest in development education work.
The Directorate General Information is funding projects that seek to increase awareness of the European Citizen as to the European Parliament's role, how it operates and the positions it adopts.

The Northern Ireland Executive should closely examine the Conservative Party's Quality of Life Report, Friends of the Earth said today. The environmental campaign group congratulated John Gummer and Zac Goldsmith on the review, which it said provided a blueprint for a greener future.

The Volunteer Development Agency today published research into volunteering in Northern Ireland. The main findings revealed that volunteering here is worth around £937 million, but that volunteering levels have declined since 2001.
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