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VASR Action Group

Working to end the structural coercion of women and children in the Irish legal system

Action Group Goals

  • ​Supporting female victims of Domestic Violence, Coercive Control and Control through Litigation.

  • Advocate for victims-survivors needs.

  • Raise public awareness around domestic violence including longstanding insufficent systematic reponse.

  • Influence legislation and systematic response to Domestic Violence. 

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VASR - Brigids, is an equalitarian group, made up of victims-survivors, with DV and/or legal system experience, who are commited to eliminating domestic violence tolerance in Irish courts and within wider society. 

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Change starts with our empowerment.

How to Join?

If you are someone who feels passionately about supporting and/or advocating for women and children who have experienced domestic violence and/or systematic re-victimisation in Ireland, VASR - Brigids would love to hear from you.

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Action Group members meet the first Wednesday of each month via zoom from 7.30pm to 9.00pm.

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To protect members identity, due to in-camera leglistation, express your interest in joining the action group at the monthly support group.  Your facilitator will then provide more information about how you can become an action group member, joining our movement for positive change.​​

VASR -Brigids
Stop and Start Campaign

Focusing the conversation on victim-survivors needs

STOP 

  • STOP silencing victims.

  • STOP minimising domestic violence

  • STOP re-victimising DV victims and their children

  • STOP structural coercion - threatening victims with jail/children’s removal for non-compliance

  • STOP making victims responsible for abusers’ behaviour

  • STOP removing our children from protective parent and placing them with abusers

  • STOP untrained, gender biased “experts”

  • STOP profiteering from our Trauma

  • STOP enabling our abusers

Image by Gayatri Malhotra
Image by Markus Winkler

START

  • START protecting and listening to victims

  • START protecting and listening to our children.

  • START understanding our safety needs.

  • START proactively, not passively, investigating DV crimes.

  • START making an access distinction between abusive and non-abusive fathers

  • START timely prosecutions of our perpetrators

  • START enforcing court orders on abusive fathers

  • START making DV a distinct crime with mandatory sentences

  • START closing the legislation-enforcement gulf.

  • START reporting annual gendered statistics on DV crimes, including prosecution, protection, safety, and baring order rates.

  • START annually evaluating the legal system.

  • START publishing judge’s rulings – patterns can reveal hidden gendered bias.

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