Rape Crisis Network Ireland seeks independent authority to monitor  gender-based violence

Clíona Saidléar, the executive director of the Rape Crisis Network Ireland, is critical of the State's failure to create "a mechanism for independently monitoring and evaluating the implementation of policies to prevent and combat violence against women". Picture: RollingNews.ie

Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) has called for an independent authority, such as an Ombudsman, to monitor domestic, sexual, and gender-based violence.

The Network and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) will meet with the international independent expert body, GREVIO (Group of Experts on Action Against Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence), which is monitoring the implementation of the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention (IC), a human rights treaty on violence against women and domestic violence which Ireland has signed up to.