for legislation on multiple discrimination both at national and European levels, which if implemented could be very significant for the issues we are considering here today. Ireland In an Irish context and forgive me mentioning my own country, I’m very conscious of the significant and ongoing importance of the organisations of minority women themselves. I’m specifically conscious of the ways in which the National Traveller Women’s Forum and the AKIDWA African women’s network have created significant waves with regard to not just the visibility of women from minorities, but also with regard to realising their rights and moving forward their agendas. However, I’m also very conscious in the Irish context of the impact of our well publicised recession on women in general and minority women in particular. Migrant women and women from minorities globally create opportunities for majority women to be able to participate in the workforce through their work for example as housekeepers, child minders and domestic labour. In a recession they are blamed for taking jobs no one else will do. Then when they loose their visas and status, not through their own fault but through actions or lack of them by others they face deportation.