The Women's Podcast

The Women's Podcast


Ep 250 Domestic Violence Sentencing & UNFPA Global Fertility Report

October 18, 2018

Róisín talks to Women's Aid director Margaret Martin about domestic violence sentencing and how it affects victims. The conversation comes in the wake of a case this week of a man who hit his wife twice across the head after dragging her upstairs and removing her jeans by force. The man, who pleaded guilty, walked free from court after being given a suspended sentence.

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Later, Jennifer speaks to Jacqueline Mahon of the the UNFPA about The Power of Choice report on global fertility rates and reproductive freedom. It said that 11 per cent of women in Ireland were still facing an “unmet need” for contraception and that no country in the world can claim that all of its citizens enjoy reproductive rights at all times.