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Day 1: One in Five Young Women Experience Intimate Relationship Abuse
Posted on November 25, 2020
Women’s Aid releases a new report today called ‘One in Five: Young Women Experience Intimate Relationship Abuse in Ireland’. The report details findings from new research carried out by Women’s Aid and Red C Research. Through focus groups and an online survey conducted with 500 young women and men, we found that 1 in 5 young women aged 18 to 25 have experienced intimate relationship abuse.
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Women's Aid UN Day Opposing Violence Against Women Seminar 2020
Posted on November 08, 2020
25th November 2020 11am - 1pm.
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UN Day Opposing Violence against Women 25th November 2018
Posted on November 25, 2018
Women’s Aid Launch its #BelieveSurvivors Purple Ribbon 16 Days of Action Campaign for 2018
- One in five women experience some form of domestic violence in Ireland.
- Global 16 Days campaign starts on UN Day Opposing Violence against Women (25th November 2018)
- Women’s Aid purple ribbon awareness campaign encourages people to #BelieveSurvivors of domestic violence.
- The campaign challenges pervasive myths in society which minimizes women’s experience of abuse and blames the victim.
- Communities across the country are coming together to raise awareness with 100+ events taking place over the next two weeks.
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Day 1: Remembering Women and Children who have died violently in Ireland
Posted on November 25, 2017
Yesterday, Women’s Aid launched a new report ‘Femicide Watch 2017 (Republic of Ireland)’. The report outlines details of eight women who have died violently in the Republic of Ireland this year. Six women were killed in their own homes. This year has also seen 6 murder trials before the courts relating to the murder of women. The 2017 Report builds on the work of the Women’s Aid Femicide Monitoring Project which started in 1996. Since then, using newspaper records, the organisation has charted violent deaths where the victims are female. The Femicide Watch 2017 shows that women are more likely to be killed in their own homes and by someone known to them. In over half of all cases, women were killed by a man that they had a current or previous intimate relationship with. The 2017 report also shows that in cases of manslaughter, intimate partners are more likely to serve 3 years less in prison that other men who kill women.
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Day 1: One in Five Women are affected by domestic violence
Posted on November 25, 2016
One in Five Women in Ireland will experience domestic abuse at some point in their lifetime. Domestic abuse can affect any woman and can happen in any home. This means that every day in Ireland, women are beaten, hospitalised and can have ongoing and long-term physical and mental health issues. Every day, women are raped, sexually abused and have no freedom to negotiate a safe and respectful sexual relationship. Women are isolated from supports and from family and friends, and emotional abuse often means that women are trapped in their own home by those closest to them.
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Message of Support, Noírín O'Sullivan, Commissioner, An Garda Síochána
Posted on November 25, 2015
I’m delighted to provide a message of support for this year’s ’16 Days of Action’ campaign. The campaign draws attention to some of the most pressing current challenges in preventing and responding to domestic violence against women. Domestic violence as a descriptor can often seem a woefully inadequate term. We are not just talking about isolated incidents of physical violence.
We need to remember that it also encompasses ongoing cases of psychological intimidation, and the shattering of confidence and emotional strength.
It destroys people’s lives.
It destroys people’s well-being.
The campaign is needed in order to fight back against a trauma that is often suffered in isolation, and is an all too intensely personal one.
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Day 1: One in Five Women Experience Domestic Violence in Ireland
Posted on November 25, 2015
One in Five Women in Ireland will experience domestic abuse at some point in their lifetime. Domestic abuse can affect any woman and can happen in any home. This means that every day in Ireland, women are beaten, hospitalised and can have ongoing and long-term physical and mental health issues. Everyday, women are raped, sexually abused and have no freedom to negotiate a safe and respectful sexual relationship. Women are isolated from supports and from family and friends, and emotional abuse often means that women are trapped in their own home by those closest to them.
Women’s Aid hope that by raising awareness of the One in Five Women who have been abused and by promoting the services which are available both nationally and locally, we can break the silence on domestic abuse across communities in Ireland, and reach out to the women affected.
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