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This week we mark International Women’s Day. The theme this year is ‘Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world’. Many words in the past few weeks have been dedicated to the question of leadership, the privilege of power, and the active effort to deny or discredit women as leaders and as truth tellers.
Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Silke Meyer
Marie Segrave
Associate Professor of Criminology
For this week, we want to shine a light on the vacuum of accountable leadership in addressing violence against women.
In a week when politicians are required to celebrate women, the place for women in Australia has never been under greater threat. Arguably, never before have women victim-survivors across our country been made to feel so unsupported and disbelieved by those in power.
Simon Coveney to meet Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on visit to Tehran Minister to discuss Iran nuclear deal as part of Ireland’s role on UN Security Council
Sat, Mar 6, 2021, 01:00
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Simon Coveney will meet Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in Tehran. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters, EPA
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Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney is travelling to Tehran on Saturday to meet with the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani for discussions on the stalled nuclear deal between Iran and the EU and the countries of the UN Security Council.
Warning of edited footage of far-right violence at Dublin lockdown protest
Minister says conspiracy theories are being used to inspire hatred and anger
Members of An Garda Siochana were forced to draw batons as an angry anti-lockdown protest tried to break through barriers to a meeting spot at St Stephen s Green, Dublin. Photo: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie
Mon, 01 Mar, 2021 - 12:01
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The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Hazel Chu, has expressed concern about edited footage that was shared on social media after the violent protest in the city which had been manipulated to sow discord.
Ms Chu said it was alarming the level of misinformation, disinformation and “downright lies” that were being shared on social media platforms.
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