New campaign focuses on consent for college students

First year students at a Sexual Consent   and Bystander Intervention workshop in the Aula Maxima, UCC last month. Picture: Larry Cummins.

Students will be encouraged to speak out and report sexual harassment and violence in a campaign around consent in third-level institutions.

The campaign is in response to findings that sexual violence and harassment "is a problem on higher education campuses and is under-reported", those behind it said.