Women’s rights report - Tackling violence still a concern

Women’s representative organisations, and those concerned about women’s rights in this country, will endorse the latest report from the United Nations.

Apart from recommending the removal of what it claims is sexist and anti-women stereotyping in the Constitution, the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is critical of the level of violence against women in Ireland and what is being done about it.

Although it acknowledges positive developments the Government has taken since the consideration of its second and third reports in 1999, CEDAW outlines remaining serious areas of concern and makes wide-sweeping recommendations.