SAFE Ireland team up with Greater London Domestic Violence Project to deliver policy and practice response training to domestic violence services across Ireland.
Director of SAFE Ireland Sharon O’Halloran and Manager of Women’s Aid Dundalk, Lisa Marmion participated in a feature on domestic violence on RTE’s The Afternoon Show.
A new report, launched today, shows that 73% of women who access emergency refuge because of domestic violence in Ireland say that they want to be safer and need changes in their lives. The groundbreaking study is the first in Europe to listen to the voices and needs of women accessing refuge and to assess [...]
Speaking at the launch of ‘Safety and Change’ A national study of the needs and outcomes for women accessing refuges in Ireland, Professor Chris Sullivan, Michigan State University, highlighted how this 2-year project has been ‘enormously successful’.
Violence in the home remains one of the most serious forms of abuse facing Irish women today…
A new campaign hopes to tackle violence against women, with men taking a leading role, writes PAMELA DUNCAN in the Irish Times Saturday Magazine.
7,512 women, 2,462 children supported and over 34,000 helpline calls to domestic violence services in 2009. “Ireland is now gambling recklessly with the lives of women and children seeking support for domestic violence”, said SAFE Ireland, the representative network of domestic violence services. It announced its latest stark statistics today, half way through the international 16 days of action against violence against women.
Men are being asked to join with women and speak out against violence against women in a new national campaign that was launched today.
Domestic violence against women and children in immigrant communities is a growing problem. Now there are calls for a change in Government policy to give victims of violence more rights and better access to the emergency facilities they need, writes JAMIE SMYTH, Social Affairs Correspondent. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0925/1224279646614.html
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