Lord Mayor Supports Women’s Equal Rights to Information

Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Alison Gilliland, joined Dublin City Council and women from the North East Inner City today, to help promote the ‘Inform Women, Transform Lives’ campaign.

The campaign is an initiative of the Carter Center, an organization that focuses on Human Rights with a strong emphasis on believing that people can improve their own lives when provided with the necessary skills, knowledge and access to resources.

The overall goals of this campaign are to enhance awareness of women’s right to information, to increase the number of women accessing information about municipal and social services in participating cities, and to support these local governments in reaching women with meaningful information.

As part of the campaign, Dublin City Council, in conjunction with Dublin Fire Brigade have been encouraging people to ‘Take The Pledge’ by signing up to join the already thousands of individuals across the globe in raising further awareness of women’s right to information.

Details of the pledge and to sign up can be found on the Dublin City Council Facebook Page @dublincitycouncil

Speaking about the campaign Lord Mayor, Alison Gilliland says “This is an inspiring and worthy campaign to support women’s access to necessary and relevant information.

“Knowledge is power and as a local authority we have a responsibility to facilitate the provision of appropriate and accessible information to women from all communities across our city.

“Over the course of the next year we will enhance our communication and facilitation of information to ensure inclusion of all women, particularly those from minority communities”.