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0000-0002-0333-8387
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Saint Angela's College
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Publisher: Routledge
Date: 26-09-2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 29-05-2014
Abstract: Refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants are at risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and subsequent ill-health in Europe yet, European minimum reception standards do not address SGBV. Hence, this paper explores the nature of SGBV occurring in this sector and discusses determinants for 'Desirable Prevention'. Applying community-based participatory research, we conducted an SGBV knowledge, attitude and practice survey with residents and professionals in eight European countries. We conducted logistic regression using mixed models to analyse the data in R. Of the 562 respondents, 58.3% reported cases of direct (23.3%) or peer (76.6%) victimization. Our results indicate that when men were involved, it most likely concerned sexual perpetration (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 4.09, confidence interval [CI]: 1.2 13.89) and physical victimization (aOR: 2.57, CI: 1.65 4), compared with females, who then rather perpetrated emotional violence (aOR: 1.85, CI: 1.08 3.13) and underwent sexual victimization (aOR: 7.14, CI: 3.33 16.67). Compared with others, asylum seekers appeared more likely to perpetrate physical (aOR 7.14, CI: 4 12.5) and endure socio-economic violence (aOR: 10, CI: 1.37 100), whereas professionals rather bore emotional (aOR: 2.01, CI: 0.98 4.12) and perpetrated socio-economic violence (aOR: 25.91, CI: 13.41 50.07). When group perpetration (aOR: 2.13, CI: 1.27 3.58) or victimization (aOR: 1.84, CI: 1.1 3.06) occurred, it most likely concerned socio-economic violence. Within the European asylum reception sector, residents and professionals of both sexes experience SGBV victimization and perpetration. Given the lack of prevention policies, our findings call for urgent Desirable Prevention programmes addressing determinants socio-ecologically.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-01-2023
DOI: 10.1177/21533687231151699
Abstract: Women comprise a minority of the prison population, representing 10.6% of the prison population in Ireland in 2020. An issue of pressing concern is the over-representation of minority ethnic women among female prisoners. In Ireland, Irish Traveller women are 22 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Traveller women. Their risk of imprisonment is greater than Traveller men who are over-represented among male prisoners. Traveller women in contact with the criminal justice system are likely to have experienced extreme deprivation, social exclusion, and current and historical/intergenerational discrimination. This article draws on evidence from published literature and a qualitative study undertaken by the authors to examine the vulnerabilities of Traveller women in prison in Ireland and the multiple and complex reasons for their over-representation in prison. To improve the situation of Traveller women in prison, the UN Bangkok Rules can be used to guide the development of relevant legislation, procedures, policy, and action plans. Traveller women in prison must not be overlooked in the implementation of the Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty, which places a legal obligation in Ireland on prison authorities to promote equality, prevent discrimination, and protect the human rights of all affected by their policies and plans.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-07-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-01-2015
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 05-2010
Abstract: Ireland is a small country with a history of a social partnership approach to policy making. This paper considers how the ambition of government to utilise an evidence-based approach to policy making plays out against this partnership agenda. Drawing on the authors’ experiences and personal reflections, the paper considers how these issues operate within a number of health and social inclusion policy areas, and it explores the role of stakeholders’ expectations and involvement in generating evidence for policy.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2010
DOI: 10.1016/J.HEALTHPOL.2010.04.002
Abstract: The objective of this article is to explore recent and proposed future developments in maternity service provision in Ireland in the context of health policy reform. Ireland is experiencing an unprecedented demand for maternity services with in excess of 75,000 births in 2009, the highest since the 1970s when Ireland experienced a 'baby boom'. A further 10% rise is projected for 2010. This demographic change has placed increased demands on an already over-stretched maternity service. Despite more than a decade of economic success the health service has remained in constant crisis with many commentators arguing it has worsened rather than improved since the reform process was instigated in 2001 [1]. Reform of maternity services has begun and this article presents two case studies to demonstrate the regional variations in maternity provision in a country which has a national health service and a national Maternity and Infant Care Scheme. It shows what developments have occurred and what direction maternity services are likely to go in the next decade. The two regions under scrutiny are the North East Health Services Executive (NEHSE) and the Greater Dublin Area (GDA). The former illustrates important developments which have occurred in the NEHSE as a result of the Maternity Services Task Force (2002-2010) and argues that there are important learning outcomes not only for the GDA which is the subject of the latter case study but also for the development of maternity services nationally.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-05-2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-03-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2010
Location: Ireland
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