Northern Ireland Women's Coalition
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The Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC) was a minor cross-community[1][2] political party in Northern Ireland from 1996 to 2006.[3]
Quick Facts Leader, Founded ...
Northern Ireland Women's Coalition | |
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Leader | Monica McWilliams Pearl Sagar |
Founded | 1996 (1996) |
Dissolved | 2006 (2006) |
Ideology | Non-sectarianism |
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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]