EU directive on violence against women will not include rape
There is disappointment over the exclusion of rape from a new European Union directive on combatting violence against women.
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There is disappointment over the exclusion of rape from a new European Union directive on combatting violence against women.
The Rape Crisis organisation in Louth has been criticised by clerical sex abuse survivors campaigning to strip a former leader of the Christian Brothers of a Freedom of Drogheda award.
A key responsibility of the new agency will be overseeing and supporting the provision of refuge accommodation for victims.
A key responsibility of the new agency will be overseeing and supporting the provision of refuge accommodation for victims.
Charities have warned that a proposed statutory agency tackling domestic, sexual and gender-based violence (DSGBV) “needs to have teeth”.