Launch: Gender Equality & Sexual Consent in Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Wed Sep 21 2022 at 09:00 am to 11:30 am

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission | Dublin 7

National Women's Council of Ireland
Publisher/HostNational Women's Council of Ireland
Launch: Gender Equality & Sexual Consent in Commercial Sexual Exploitation Report Launch of Gender Equality and Sexual Consent in the Context of Commercial Sexual Exploitation
About this Event

This event will launch the findings of the study Gender Equality and Sexual Consent in the Context of Commercial Sexual Exploitation – a collaborative research project conducted by the National Women’s Council and the Sexual Exploitation Research Programme (SERP) at UCD, funded by the Irish Research Council, New Foundations 2020.

Many NWC members participated in this study and we warmly thank them for their insights. A key finding of the project is that participants believe that the commercial sex trade in all its forms is a highly gendered phenomenon and has significant, negative impacts on the achievement of gender equality because of the ways in which it commodifies and exploits women, and vulnerable women in particular. Following the welcome inclusion of measures to address prostitution and sex trafficking within the new Zero Tolerance: Third National Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Strategy, this event will also focus on harnessing the potential of the Strategy and creating an engaging discussion with our members on tackling sexual exploitation in all its forms.

This report will build on and inform NWC’s long standing commitment to the Equality Model as the strongest way to challenge commercial sexual exploitation and violence. It will also inform NWC’s overall work on tackling violence against women with our Beyond Exploitation campaign, alongside our partners the Immigrant Council of Ireland and Ruhama.

This report will be launched by Deputy Ivana Bacik TD, Chairperson of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Gender Equality.

With speakers including:

  • Orla O’Connor, Director, National Women’s Council
  • Associate Professor Dr Marie Keenan, School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, UCD, and Chairperson and Principal Investigator of the Sexual Exploitation Research Programme (SERP), UCD
  • Jennifer Okeke-Campbell, Anti-Trafficking Officer, Immigrant Council of Ireland

Following a presentation of the research, a panel of expert speakers will respond to the report’s findings, including:

  • Kat Banyard, Director UK Feminista & author of ‘The Equality Illusion’ & ‘Pimp State – Sex, Money & the Future of Equality’.
  • Danielle McLaughlin, Policy & Communications Officer, Ruhama

With further speakers to be confirmed.

Registration will begin at 9am with the morning’s events commencing at 9:30 am.

This research was funded by the Irish Research Council, New Foundations, 2020.

Event Venue

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, 16-22 Green Street, Dublin 7, Ireland

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