Lack of urgency to tackle violence against women ‘unacceptable’, Irish MEP says

Irish MEP and former Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said that a hesitancy to introduce a consent-based rape law across the EU is “unacceptable”, and suggests a lack of urgency from governments across Europe to tackle violence against women. (PA)

There is a lack of urgency from governments to tackle violence against women across Europe, an Irish MEP has said.

Frances Fitzgerald said that hesitation towards introducing an EU-wide consent-based definition of rape, based on a legal argument that it does not fall under the banner of sexual exploitation, was “not acceptable”.