Here’s what was said and who said what this week. By Nicky Ryan Sunday 21 Feb 2021, 6:30 PM Feb 21st 2021, 6:30 PM 13,858 Views 7 Comments Source: PA Images
We’re creating the conditions in which epidemics flourish, we’re forcing and pushing people to migrate away from their homes due to climate stress. We’re doing so much and we are doing it in the name of globalisation and some sense of chasing that wonderful thing that people call economic growth.
WHO’s Dr Mike Ryan on how the modern world is laying the groundwork for further epidemics of disease. Source: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
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Oireachtas passes law criminalising sharing of intimate images without consent Senator Lynn Ruane speaks of her experience of ongoing harassment for five years
Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 20:20
Legislation to be known as “Coco’s law” which criminalises the distribution of intimate images without consent goes to the President for signature after it passed all stages in the Seanad on Friday.
Senators spoke of their personal experiences of abuse, stating it was a misconception to think it was typically “scumbags” who harassed, when it came from across society, including doctors and children.
While the Act is formally called the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill, Minister for Justice Helen McEntee said it would be referred to as Coco’s law in memory of Nicole Fox, known by the nickname “Coco” who died by suicide after relentless online abuse and in tribute to her mother Jackie Fox who “tirelessly campaigned to raise awareness about the harmfu