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Paving the Way: Acknowledging the importance of foreign women in Iceland

Being non-binary in Iceland: How is gender equality for non-binary people?

The feminist movement in Iceland stands in solidarity with our sisters in the United States

Equality in Time of COVID-19

Childcare – what needs to change?

Solidarity with Women in the United States

Submission to GREVIO

International Roma Day

#NordicFeminisms: Pay Equity in Denmark, Finland and Iceland

Women Political Leaders Summit in Iceland until 2025

Event 8. March: Has the work force awaken? #Metoo and a lower threshold

IAW Statement, 2022/02/26

#NordicFeminisms: Pay Equity in Denmark, Finland and Iceland

Snapshots of Women in Humanitarian Work Abroad

Diversity on the Ballot #JÁTAK

IWRA’s Statement to UN Member States on Human Rights in Iceland

Feminist Reading of the Agreement for the Coalition Government

Daycare in Iceland – Talk at a WorkEqual Seminar

Solidarity with women in Texas

NOW – Online Courses for Women

IWRA’s Statement on the Recount Following Parliamentary Elections 2021

Women hold 52.4% of the seats in Alþingi

NOW – Creating Future Leaders

UPR Shadow Report on Human Rights in Iceland

NOW – New Opportunities for Women Going Strong

Workshops on gender equality in the workplace

NOW – leading change through mentoring

NOW Community of Practice

IWRA condemns Turkey’s decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention

Transfeminism and the Women’s Movement

Women Under Water – Gender Equality During a Pandemic

Happy Holidays!

IWRA Welcomes a New Member – Trans Ísland

Gender Equality in the Time of COVID-19

Can we see a different and happy world if the policies of nations are made with compassion and empathy?

Transfeminism and the Women’s Movement in Iceland

Trans People and Feminist Solidarity

We Want Equal Pay, Not Gratitude!

Men are excused and women are held culpable

IWRA Condemns Attack on Women’s Rights in Poland and Turkey

Women’s Culture and Commemoration Fund calls for grant applications

Looking for participants in a study on gender equality in the labor market

The General Assemby of IWRA demands that Alþingi, local authorities and political parties eradicate harassment and violence in politics

NOW – New Opportunities for Women going strong despite COVID-19

Online Panel on Women’s Rights, Covid and the Future – May 9th, 3 p.m. GMT

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, rammi eftir Örnu Rún Gústafsdóttur

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir celebrates her 90th birthday

Women’s rights and democracy under attack in the era of Covid-19

Advisory Group for NOW – New Opportunities for Women

IWRA salutes women in Mexico

Her Voice, panel discussions with women of foreign origin in Iceland

Islandia, a short film by Eydís Eir Brynju- og Björnsdóttir

NOW – New Opportunities for Women

Happy Holidays!

#WorkEqual Conference in Dublin, Ireland

Reykjavik Global Forum 2019

#EqualParentalLeave

Icelandic Gender Equality Solutions Introduced in Japan

#MeToo, Migration, Race and Class

Equal Pay – How Useful Are Good Practices

IWRA’s Declaration to OSCE States

Stand for peace, freedom and a green future

Call for applications to attend a workshop on EWL’s young women’s engagement strategy, in Brussels

Crime After Crime, Documentary and Q&A

International Women’s News 2019

Tatjana Latinovic elected Chair of IWRA

IAW newsletter – April 2019

Icelandic Women’s Rights Association joins the European Women’s Lobby

Her Voice: Panel Discussion with Women of Multicultural Ethnicity in Iceland

IAW Newsletter – February 2019

IAW Newsletter – December 2018

Sovereign Women and Men

Don’t Change Women, Change the World

Icelandic Women’s Strike on a European Level!

What will your sign say?

IAW Newsletter – October 2018

What will your sign say on October 24th?

Women’s Day Off 2018 – Women’s Strike!!!

IAW Newsletter – August 2018

IAW Newsletter – June 2018

IAW Newsletter – April 2018

#NordicFeminisms – Dispatches from the North

Digital Gender Violence and Hate Speech: Role of Men, the Legislator and the Implications for Democracy

Human Trafficking in Iceland

IAW Newsletter – February 2018

An open dialogue with the #metoo women – What can we do?

Women protest income inequality and the gender pay gap in Reykjavík, Iceland on October 24th, 2016. Photographer: Arnþór Birkisson.

Looking for information about equal pay in Iceland? All about the Equal Pay Standard

IAW Newsletter – December 2017

Break the silence! Women vote, women strike and #metoo

IAW Newsletter – November 2017

IAW Annual Report 2017

A New Report on Online Violence in the Nordic Countries

#SpeakUp! No more tolerance for gender-based violence

A Class in Politics, for Immigrant Women

IAW Newsletter – August 2017

IAW Newsletter – June 2017

IAW Newsletter – April 2017

Income Equality Now! Women in Iceland Walk Out. A Video

Gender equality in the labour market and equal pay: The Icelandic approach

Women protest income inequality and the gender pay gap in Reykjavík, Iceland on October 24th, 2016. Photographer: Arnþór Birkisson.

Looking for information about equal pay in Iceland?

7% of films in Icelandic cinemas in 2016 were directed by women: A new Nordic evaluation of gender (in)equality in film screenings

The Gender Gap on the Big Screen

IAW Newsletter – February 2017

Women’s March Reykjavík

IAW Newsletter – December 2016

A New Web Portal on Gender Equality in Iceland – In English

Income Equality Now! Let‘s Walk Out on Monday, October 24th, at 2:38 p.m.!

IAW Newsletter – October 2016

Iceland protests abortion ban in Poland

IAW Newsletter – August 2016

IAW Newsletter – June 2016

No Amnesty for Pimps and Johns

IAW Newsletter – April 2016

UPR Shadow Report

Concluding Observations of CEDAW on Iceland

IAW Newsletter – February 2016

Aase Smedler, Brynhildur Heiðar- og Ómarsdóttir og Bolor Legjeem, í fundarsal nefndar um Kvennasáttmála Sameinuðu þjóðanna, Genf 2016.

Second address and two recommendation to the UN CEDAW committee

Bygging Sameinuðu þjóðanna í Genf

Address to the UN CEDAW committee

New Shadow Report on Iceland’s Implementation of CEDAW

Celebrating 100 years of suffrage

IAW Newsletter – December 2015

To ban or not to ban? Debating pornography in Iceland

IAW Newsletter – October 2015

International Women’s News Vol. 110 No. 1

Women’s Rights in European Small States

Teaching Feminism in High Schools: A Nordic Discussion

IAW newsletter – August 2015

Reykjavík Culture Night: 100 Years of Feminism

Amnesty for Pimps and Johns?

IAW Newsletter – June 2015

Status of Women’s Rights in Japan, Lecture on May 22, 12 p.m.

Certified: Feminist! Using Bureaucracy to Achieve Radical Change

IAW Newsletter – April 2014

Nordic Feminists Issue Demands to Governments of the World

#FreeTheNipple

Statement in Reaction to Political Statement of the 59th Commission on the Status of Women

Women’s Statement on the 20th Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women

Cool Feminism: Exploring Ideas from the North

IAW Newsletter – February 2015

Icelandic Women’s Rights Association 108 Years Old Today

IAW Newsletter – December 2014

On December 8, Brynhildur Heiðar- og Ómarsdóttir and Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir met with Slovenian academics and politicians and participated in a panel discussing women in politics. A video recording of the panel is now online. Enjoy! [youtube height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH"]http://youtu.be/KulBnChBu4Y[/youtube]

Watch Our Panel on Women in Politics Online!

IWRA in Slovenia!

Surrogacy in Iceland?

IAW Newsletter – October 2014

IAW Now Publishes Its Newsletters Online