Representing Ireland at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

Minister for Equality Roderic O’Gorman speaking at the UN Security Council, reaffirming Ireland’s commitment to gender equality nationally and globally.

This week, I am attending the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, the most important annual global forum dedicated to advancing gender equality. The key focus this week is domestic, sexual and gender-based violence.

I will be outlining the steps the Irish Government is taking to address this issue:

1) the publication and implementation of the Third National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence;

2) the commitment to bring forward an agency designed specifically to tackle DSGBV;

3) the introduction of new laws two years ago to criminalise the non-consensual sharing of intimate images;

4) the work being done in my own Department to bring forward five-days of paid leave for victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence.