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The role of young masculinities in men s violence against women
Updated / Tuesday, 16 Mar 2021
16:02 The continuing prevalence of violence against women suggests that we still have a long way to go
The Metropolitan Police’s edict to women to not go out alone in the wake of the tragic death of Sarah Everard has led to a deluge of commentary on social media. Such advice not only blames the victim (for being a woman in an unsafe’ space), but is also mis-directed as it ignores men’s role in violence perpetration. These issues speak to deeply embedded societal understandings about gender norms, how we understand masculinity and manhood and the behaviours society associates with being a man.
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Rethink Ireland to build €100m social innovation fund, helped by philanthropists
New €650,000 Ignite Midwest Fund, and plans to fund Ireland’s first dedicated climate justice fund, training for 70,000 people, and engaging 35,000 people in mental health programmes
Minister of State for Community Development and Charities, Joe O’Brien, and Deirdre Mortell, CEO of Rethink Ireland, launch the new €650,000 Ignite Midwest Fund, which is open to projects that empower communities, tackle poverty, and promote social inclusion in counties Clare, Limerick and Tipperary. Picture: Marc O Sullivan
Fri, 19 Feb, 2021 - 08:59
Joe Dermody
Innovators whose ideas can help empower communities, tackle poverty, and promote social inclusion are being sought to propose projects for a new €650,000 Ignite Midwest Fund.
There was also a 15% rise in prosecutions planned for other sexual offences.
Figures obtained by Newstalk show the steady increase in cases the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has directed for prosecution for sexual offences in recent years.
In 2010, they decided to prosecute 68 people for rape.
By 2019, this had almost doubled to 124 - and there was a further 35% increase last year, to 168.
The DPP directed that 254 people be prosecuted for other sexual offences in 2010, rising to 459 in 2019 and to 530 last year.
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre says the new figures suggest only 14% of rapes reported to the Gardaí end up in court.