On Monday 2nd September 2024 Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) School of Law hosted the All-Ireland Network on Sexual Violence Research (AINSVR) Conference on Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Across the Island of Ireland. While the network itself focuses on sexual violence, this is just one manifestation of the violence experienced by women and girls in our society. Indeed, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) globally about 1 in 3 (30%) of women worldwide have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. Further to this, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) in England and Wales described violence against women and girls as a ‘national emergency’ and a ‘threat to society on the same scale as ‘terrorism’, following the release of figures revealing that one in 12 women are affected by crimes of stalking, harassment, sexual assault and domestic violence.
To read the report from the conference, please click here.
