Irish survivors to tell UN session why they want a ban on use of counselling notes in rape trials

Rape survivor and founder of Beyond Surviving  Ciara Mangan will tell the UN the use by defence lawyers of complainants' therapy notes is 'a breach of women’s rights to access health and justice'. File picture: Courtpix

Survivors of sexual offences will call on the Irish Government to ban outright the use of counselling notes in sexual offence trials, at a session of the United Nations on Monday.

Ciara Mangan and Leyla Simsek of Beyond Surviving will be joined by human rights and equality researcher Lisa Murray in Geneva for a session of the Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women.