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Details of Women's Aid Change the Conversation 16 Days Campaign
Posted on October 12, 2017
Every year, the International 16 Days of Action campaign provides an important opportunity to raise awareness of domestic violence and call for changes at international, national and local level to make women and children safe from abuse.
In Ireland, over 100 groups and individuals organise local and national events and actions to show solidarity with and support to women and children experiencing domestic violence in our communities. Will you join us this year?
Domestic Violence in Ireland
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The Women's Aid Femicide Watch Report 1996-2016
Posted on November 25, 2016
Today, Women’s Aid launches a new report ‘Behind Closed Doors: Femicide Watch 1996 – 2016’. The Femicide Watch Report is the culmination of 20 years of the Women’s Aid Femicide Monitoring Project. Since 1996, Women’s Aid has, using newspaper records, charted and highlighted violent deaths where the victims are female in the Republic of Ireland.
We are launching the report at a seminar today to mark the UN Day Opposing Violence against Women (25th November 2016) and will lead a nationwide moment of remembrance for the 209 women who have died violently over the past 20 years. We remember too the 16 children who were killed alongside their mothers.
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Women's Aid announces theme for the 16 Days of Action Campaign for 2016
Posted on October 10, 2016
Women's Aid has announced details of our 16 Days of Action campaign for 2016. This year our theme will be Change the Conversation and we encourage local and national action to challenge the victim blaming culture that surrounds domestic abuse in Irish society. Our campaign will also bring survivors' voice to the fore to our awareness raising activities during this important campaign.
DOMESTIC ABUSE IN IRELAND
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16 Days of Action 2015 Newsletter available
Posted on October 13, 2015
The 2015 edition of the Women’s Aid newsletter on the annual International 16 Days of Action Opposing Violence against Women is available to download now. Click here. This update showcases some of last year’s most creative events and direct you to resources that we hope will inspire you to organise your own local events, joining women all over the world in a united campaign against violence.
With this year’s campaign, Women’s Aid will draw attention to some of the most pressing current challenges in preventing and responding to domestic violence against women. We will host a conference
in Dublin on the 25th of November where a panel of international experts will examine the emerging issue of domestic violence and cybercrime. More information on this event is available here.
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Day Two: 204 women have been murdered in Ireland since 1996.
Posted on November 26, 2014
204 women murdered since 1996
Female homicide is the extreme end of the violence against women spectrum. To highlight this issue Women's Aid has been collating data on female homicide in Ireland since the beginning of 1996.
To date, 204 women have been died violently in the Republic of Ireland. That is an average of 12 women a year losing their lives in the most tragic and brutal circumstances. Each woman leaves behind devastated family, friends and in many cases, children.
Our statistics relating to resolved cases, show that women are more likely to be killed in their own homes than any other location (62%), that they most likely know their killer (89%) and that in 99% of cases the perpetrator was male.
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Women's Aid One in Five Women Campaign
Posted on November 24, 2014
Women's Aid Annual One in Five Campaign to mark the 16 Days of Opposing Violence against Women Campaign begins tomorrow which is the International Day Opposing Violence against Women.
Women's Aid launched the 2014 campaign last week with a minute’s silence outside Dáil Éireann in memory of 78 women murdered by their partners or ex-partners since 1996. 10 children who were murdered alongside their mothers were also remembered. The event featured a sombre display of 78 pairs of women’s shoes and 10 pairs of children’s shoes outside Leinster House that acted as the starkest reminder of the dangerous and sometimes fatal nature of domestic abuse.
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