Above from left: Charlene Masterson, survivor of violent abuse; Aine Kerr, Co-Founder and COO, Kinzen; Sonya Lennon CEO, WorkEqual; Orla O’Connor, Director, National Women’s Council; Noeline Blackwell, CEO, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre; Maria Elena Costa Human Rights Lead Irish Network Against Racism; Stephanie Walsh, Business Development Director, Rethink Ireland; and Seán Cooke, CEO, Men’s Development Network
This afternoon.
National print Museum,. Dublin 2.
Rethink Ireland – formerly the social innovation fund – is inviting ‘business leaders and philanthropists’ to contribute to a Freedom From Fear Fund to help ‘end violence against women in Ireland’.
Yvonne Judge writes:
The Freedom From Fear Fund has been created by Rethink Ireland in partnership with the National Women’s Council. The Fund, which has an initial target of raising €100,000, is now open for donations.
Aine Kerr co-founder and COO of Kinzen announced the first business donation to the fund by her company, co-owned with Mark Little..
The Fund aims to support education and prevention programmes working with girls and boys as well as supporting projects that address the structural causes and the risk and protective factors, associated with violence against women. The Fund will also support projects working to achieve systemic culture change and innovative services to survivors of violence and their families.
Today, a Proclamation to end violence against women in Ireland was also launched, with a live printing of the document at the National Print Museum
The Proclamation is based on the UN and Council of Europe’s Conventions, signed by Ireland, which enshrine the rights of women to live with freedom from fear. A personal testimony was delivered at the launch by Charlene Masterson, a survivor of violent abuse. businesses should contact stephanie@rethinkireland.ie
Leon Farrel/Photocall Ireland
What is a “woman”?
A person with a cervix I think? Oh wait, no you don’t need one these days to qualify. Silly me
Ah lets not get tied down with those issues lads.
Besides, I see in pic 2 & 3 there, that The Doctor has regenerated into female form again.
https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Sixth-6th-Colin-Baker.jpg
Good old Gallifreyan’s. They don’t care what gender you are ;-)
I’m just here to watch the entire point of this post go over certain (and at this stage expected) commenters heads.
*Grabs popcorn bucket*
Let me get you started here – is all violence against women, (by men) to be considered gendered violence, or is some of it possibly just random?
OK BB, you got me, I’m eating peanuts.
I like popcorn and all but its the way it gets stuck in your teeth, nothing gets that stuff out…
:(
Níl aon saoirse gan saoirse na mban:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJzgAwTXwAE5wLz?format=png&name=4096×4096
Saw a post the other day on an article about domestic abuse that was probably put there by a troll but that got a ridiculous amount of thumbs up. It said “why should I adhere to rules or not take what I want and demand respect from people I could crush if we lived in the wild?”. I’ve encountered that attitude a hand full of times over the years but it’s usually not so blatant. Maybe it’s the anonymity of being online that has brought it out more.
That’s fairly deranged, incel-esque weirdness.
I’ve no doubt that whoever put it there was either trolling for a reaction or is living in some parallel universe where they are some kind of mighty force, it wasn’t so much the actual post that was a problem, it was the amount of thumbs up it got . Again though that could also just be baiting for reaction.
my guess is that if the poster referred to by dell lived in the wild they would spend most of their time terrified of being crushed, not crushing, not even selecting potential victims – just simply terrified of being crushed ?
A straw man could be crushed easily alright
Sounds like this guy. I hope men like Niall Kennedy are made very famous indeed.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-40813038.html
Let’s hope upon release he has nowhere to go and ends up on the streets.
For all it was a horrific case at least that brave women is still alive today and has gotten some measure of justice but based on her treatment on the witness stand I can only imagine the cost to her on top of why she was already there in the first place.
probably written by a spotty boy who never leaves his room
“why should I adhere to rules or not take what I want and demand respect from people I could crush if we lived in the wild?” Because we live in a civilisation. Next..
nice to see the press put to use at any rate, if you haven’t been it’s a great wee museum
The vandercook press was used but it would be nice to see the other presses getting a bit more action, always feel they missed a trick not making it more of a living print shop/ museum.
White women only.
#shenevermadeithome
Yet more social awareness campaigns. There’s already too much NGO money floating around this country, looking for things to do. We’re funding a collective national neurosis that our society is constantly broken and in need of on-going correction. How very Catholic.