Archive for the 'Eire' Category
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The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre is calling for improved legislation governing the area of underage sex.
The call follows the acquittal yesterday of a 27-year-old man who had consensual sex with a 13-year-old girl seven years ago.
The jury in the case accepted the man’s defence that he was not aware the girl was under the [...]
A teenage boy charged with statutory rape is to challenge the controversial law in the High Court on the grounds it discriminates against him because he is male.
The 17-year-old from Donegal has been charged with the statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl on August 5, 2006, when he was aged 15.
A case will [...]
The fourth annual Wise Woman Weekend takes place on the shore of Lough Gill in Co Sligo June 6th to June 8th, 2008.
This is a weekend of learning, discovery, celebration and fun for women of all ages. A time to get away from the normal stress of family, work and social obligation and honour yourself [...]
The RAG is a magazine produced by a diverse group of anarcha-feminist women in Dublin. We are all feminists, united in our recognition that women’s subordination exists. We are all anarchists, united in our belief for the need to create alternatives to this capitalistic, patriarchal society wherein all are dominated and exploited.
RAG are organising a [...]
Ever since feminism’s “Second Wave” emerged in the wake of the anti-Vietnam War movement, women around the world have debated the compatibility of national liberation and women’s liberation. Several questions predominate: Which movement is more likely to liberate women? If both are necessary, how will they fit together? And what about other oppression many women [...]
An Irish Examiner/Red C national opinion poll on people’s attitudes to sex crimes found a core section of our society think rape victims are totally or partially responsible for being attacked.
It found:
* More than 30% think a victim is some way responsible if she flirts with a man or fails to say no clearly.
* 10% [...]
Taking a scattergun approach to justice is ignoring the real root of the violence issue*
Much has been written over the last week about the terrible violence on our streets. Depending on which side of the bleeding heart you find yourself we should either all have a group hug, or at the very least get [...]
Transition Year (TY) students highlight horror of domestic violence
They may be County Mayo’s only entrants in the Young Social Innovators project for this school year, but the Transition Year (TY) students of Davitt College, Castlebar, sure knew how to pull an emotionally-charged punch at yesterday’s (Monday’s) presentation on domestic violence.
“My name is Chris/I am three,/My [...]
A 13-year-old girl was kidnapped and raped in a brutal bid to force her parents to honour an arranged marriage. But the Irish Independent has learned that the girl’s 16-year-old-rapist, who had been selected to become her husband, and her abductors may never face prosecution as her parents have accepted a €10,000 payment after an [...]
Lap dancing clubs and strip bars inevitably result in the rise of human trafficking, a conference on the issue heard yesterday.
And those who start out working in the legal end of the sex trade — such as lap dancers — often end up selling their bodies for sex, Gerardine Rowley of Ruhama, the organisation that [...]
Some sex offenders are working in pairs to identify and attack their victims, it was claimed yesterday.
Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop, head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, said increasing numbers of people were brought for treatment in the sexual assault treatment unit of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin last year, compared to 2006.
And Ms O’Malley-Dunlop believes that [...]
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- The right of murder suspects to use their partner’s sexual infidelity as a partial defence in court is set to end
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Why Anarchafeminism?
17 April 2008 in Eire, Feminism, Opinion Comment, WLM / Feminist History
Report on discussion hosted by RAG
RAG, the Revolutionary Anarchafeminist Group is now in its third year. The collective was set up in order to explore our ideas and produce a magazine, the Rag. Meetings are held weekly on Mondays, but the first Monday of every month is an open meeting, in which non-members are invited [...]