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gender-based violence

Last month
March 2025
Domestic Violence
'Teen sexually abused by landlord': Charity tells politicians of challenges faced by violence survivors
4 Mar
8.2k
February
February 2025
Leinster House
Justice Minister clarifies he is 'not opposed' to ban outright counselling notes in rape cases
26 Feb
9.2k
20
gender-based violence
Government will not oppose PBP motion on character references and access to counselling notes
25 Feb
7.4k
gender-based violence
'Dealing with the legal system was worse than the rape': Victims of male violence demand change
Survivors are calling for the use of counselling notes and character references to be banned in gender-based violence trials.
18 Feb
10.3k
Dead Flower Shop
Outside, it's a florist — inside, it's a stark reminder of 274 women killed violently in Ireland
Updated 14 Feb
21.9k
Policy Matters
Ruth Coppinger on her fight to stop the courts using sexual violence victims' counselling notes
The Dublin West TD sat down with The Journal to discuss her plans on tackling gender-based violence.
Jane Matthews
9 Feb
10.9k
102
Last year
2024
Niamh O’Reilly: I can see why women would ‘choose the bear’
Niamh O'Reilly
Updated 19 Sep 2024
27.9k
safe house
'I am 16, I was raped': How Irish aid is helping survivors of gender-based violence in Ethiopia
The majority of women and girls who use the safehouse are under 18 years of age and are pregnant when they arrive.
Jane Matthews
reporting from Addis Ababa
20 Jul 2024
15.1k
Licensing system for taxi drivers to be 'urgently' reviewed following rapist driver conviction
10 Jul 2024
11.7k
zero tolerance motion
Women and girls in Ireland are 'primed for violence' on a daily basis, Holly Cairns tells Dáil
10 Jul 2024
12.4k
Dáil
'Epidemic' of sexual and gender-based violence in Ireland, Taoiseach says
Updated 3 Jul 2024
21.2k
154
Zero Tolerance
Anyone accused of gender-based violence should not serve in Defence Forces while awaiting trial - Taoiseach
27 Jun 2024
16.3k
Cathal Crotty case: We need a truly watershed moment for women’s safety in Ireland
Mary Lou McDonald
27 Jun 2024
10.6k
directive
Ireland urged to show 'courage and conviction' to help pass stalled EU law on sexual violence
3 Jan 2024
10.3k
All time
Domestic Violence
More than 54,000 reports of domestic violence made to gardaí so far this year
7 Dec 2023
7.1k
New Laws
Stalking is now a standalone offence and is punishable by up to 10 years in prison
1 Nov 2023
15.2k
82
Domestic abuse accommodation to be increased under new state agency
6 Mar 2023
5.6k
6
gender-based violence
Frances Fitzgerald: We hope this will be the year for EU-wide action on violence against women
Frances Fitzgerald
13 Jan 2023
6.4k
9
listen to survivors
Opinion: A year on from the loss of Ashling Murphy, has anything changed?
Clare Egan
Updated 12 Jan 2023
14.7k
Spain decries 'dreadful' spike in murders of women
29 Dec 2022
25.7k
2
Domestic Violence
Collapse of NI institutions impacting on gender-based violence legislation being passed
4 Nov 2022
5.1k
1
Zero Tolerance
Secondary school curriculum to be updated to address issues like domestic violence and consent
28 Jun 2022
14.0k
24
global violence
Opinion: Gender-based violence is a global issue we can no longer ignore
Caoimhe de Barra
16 Feb 2022
8.7k
19
gender-based violence
'We need to stand up and be counted': TDs agree on all-party approach to violence against women
Updated 19 Jan 2022
15.9k
Opinion
Jane Monckton Smith: This week's tragedy in Tullamore should be Ireland's watershed moment
Jane Monckton Smith
15 Jan 2022
23.2k
For ashling
Áine Kerr: Women deserve to run for exercise without having to face the shadows
Áine Kerr
14 Jan 2022
50.1k
101
knowhere to go
Opinion: It took me years to realise I'd been raped - I had never been taught about consent
Ashley Westpheling
Updated 2 Nov 2021
41.5k
Report
Migrants in Ireland 'fear speaking out' about gender-based violence over worries they will lose legal status
21 Apr 2021
7.9k
4
seeking justice
'I'll give you a goat and then you can forget about the rape'
22 Jul 2019
75.8k
10
gender violence
'We can't accept this as being the norm': USI President Síona Cahill on why she's calling for mass walkouts today
8 Mar 2019
15.7k
79
international women's day
Call for mass walkouts in Ireland to protest against gender-based violence and pay gap
11 Feb 2019
22.0k
85
gender-based violence
'Protecting victims of sexual violence a priority': Strategy tackling domestic and sexual violence under review
31 Jan 2019
5.4k
7
me too
Gender based violence: 'Our outrage cannot be confined to Hollywood'
Dominic MacSorley
16 Dec 2017
9.6k
97
Kenya
Take a walk through Kangemi slum, where Nairobi's poorest fight to survive
26 Mar 2016
30.6k
29
Sexual Assault
Plan to combat domestic violence will 'make Ireland a safer place for women and men'
20 Jan 2016
14.4k
38
Opinion
We need to talk more about relationships, consent and sexual violence
Ruth Lawlor
24 Mar 2015
165
75
South Africa
Poverty, violence and myths about condoms: What's spreading HIV?
28 Sep 2014
12.3k
24
helping hands
Here's how Ireland is tackling violence against females during conflict
14 Jul 2014
7.4k
19
africa day
Opinion: Equality and social justice for women is my life’s work
Salome Mbugua,
23 May 2014
436
41
DRC
"We hear of babies as young as five months being abducted and raped repeatedly"
28 Nov 2013
18.6k
48
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