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Join The Observatory on Violence Agaisnt Women in marking the 16 Days of Action to End Violence Against Women 2020!

The Observatory is an independent network of more than 20 grassroots and national organizations that convene quarterly to monitor progress on violence against women in Ireland and is chaired by NWC.

This annual event focuses on different aspects of the Istanbul Convention, and this year we are examining Gender-Based Harassment through two of the four pillars of the Convention; Prevention and Protection.

Prof. Marceline Naudi will give the keynote address wherein she will examine gender-based harassment under the Istanbul Convention. Among her many accomplishments, Marceline Naudi, a social worker by profession, her practice (in England, Ireland and Malta) included work with children and young people in care and their families, ex-offenders, homeless people, persons with mental health support needs and survivors of domestic violence. She was also the Scientific Co-ordinator of the European Observatory on Femicide. She has represented Malta on the Council of Europe ad Hoc Committee on Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (CAHVIO) which drafted the Istanbul Convention, and is now an elected member and President of its Group of Experts, the GREVIO.

This will then be followed by a wide-ranging panel discussion exploring gender-based harassment from different perspectives, confirmed speakers thus far include:

Sarah Benson - CEO of Women's Aid who will speak to the experiences of intimate partner abuse of young women (both on and offline)

Mary Louise Lynch - Survivor and Founder of Sisi who will speak to harassment within intimate partner relationships and mechanisms employed by perpetrators.

Pirkko Mahlamäki - Secretary general of Finnish Disability Forum and EWL Board Membe who will speak to the experiences of disabled women.

Sandra Healy, Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Dublin City University who will to speak about gender-based harassment within thir-level education and the workplace.

Salome Mbugua- AkiDwA-Head of Operations and Strategy who will speak to the experiences of ethnic minority and migrant women.

Full schedule and speaker's line-up to follow.