{"id":213041,"date":"2025-12-03T11:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/213041\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:14:13","slug":"womens-coalition-on-immigration-launches-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/213041\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Coalition on Immigration launches in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A women\u2019s coalition on immigration launched in Dublin City Centre this afternoon, putting forward a new report <\/strong>warning of what it has described as changing patterns of sexual violence in Europe and urgent policy gaps in Ireland.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 20-page thematic report entitled \u201cThrough a Safeguarding lens, darkly: a thematic report into the International Protection Provision in Ireland,\u201d compares official data collated by domestic police forces and government departments of six European countries. The organisation said at the launch that the data shows an \u201coverrepresentation of non-national men in sexual offence statistics, to argue that current policies are putting women and children at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group said on Tuesday that it has identified \u201csignificant\u201d shifts in the nature of sexual violence against Europe, highlighting \u201cemergent trends in opportunistic street attacks and group-based sexual assaults.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Barrister and women\u2019s rights campaigner Laoise de Br\u00fan, who authored the report alongside journalist Barbara McCarthy, said that the findings raise urgent questions for Irish policymakers as the State continues to accommodate over 33,000 individuals in the International Protection system without screening them against European Crime databases.<\/p>\n

The new organisation\u2019s membership also includes general election candidate, campaigner and businesswoman Elaine Mullally, European election candidate and former Senior Counsel, Una McGurk, alongside Saggart Guardians spokesperson Tanja Alt.<\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s Coalition on Immigration was formed in response to growing concerns about the impact of immigration policies on women\u2019s safety, child safeguarding and democratic accountability.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cDrawing on official statistics from multiple EU member states including Austria, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Italy and France, the report outlines clear evidence that foreign-born individuals are over-represented in sexual offence data, often by a factor of three to four, with even higher rates in specific subcategories such as gang rape,\u201d said Ms de Br\u00fan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Founder de Br\u00fan BL said: \u201cThe Government has yet to officially link immigration to an increase in crime and or indeed to sexual violence. In fact, there would appear to be a policy of downplaying this link evident in parliamentary debate and media reporting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cHowever, the data doesn\u2019t lie: migrant men are three to four times more likely to be represented in sexual offending statistics in six European countries. Factual analysis must trump political correctness lest public trust in our institutions be eroded. This was a key finding of the Louise Casey report into grooming gangs in the UK.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The new Coalition today called on the Government\u00a0 immediately release all criminal statistics for sexual offences in this country disaggregated by country of origin and ethnicity \u201cso that policy can be formulated on fact, not on wishful thinking or ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe data from Europe is a stark warning that the safety of women and children is risked by current immigration policy specifically by the placing of international protection applicants in residential areas because these men are not screened via European crime databases,\u201d the launch heard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Journalist Barbara Mc Carthy, who is co-author of the report, commented:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cAcross Europe, the nature of sexual violence is shifting: alongside traditional patterns of offending, we are now seeing a marked rise in opportunistic street attacks and group-based assaults, often involving multiple perpetrators acting together in public spaces. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis report breaks new ground by confronting the changing patterns of sexual crime in Europe from stranger assaults to group-based offending \u2013 and by insisting that Ireland can no longer operate without disaggregated, transparent data. We cannot respond effectively to evolving risks if we refuse to measure them honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tanja Alt, spokesperson for Saggart Guardians \u2013 a women-led group of Citywest residents campaigning against the IPAS in their village, said today that \u201cour female members and concerned parents have long warned of the risks associated with The Citywest Hotel, we have shown through freedom of information the residents have consistently been found with drugs and weapons since the IPAS contract began.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStill, The Dept of Justice has not engaged with us on any additional safeguarding for our community. In October this year our worst fears were realised when a vulnerable child was the victim of a horrendous alleged attack,\u201d Ms Alt said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere must be accountability for this incident, for the fear women and parents feel everyday living near this centre. This is what we are fighting for, accountability for what has happened, and assurances no other child or woman will be at risk or feel unsafe in our community or anywhere in Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A women\u2019s coalition on immigration launched in Dublin City Centre this afternoon, putting forward a new report warning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,715,13,14,31154,6,56,11,12,15,16,116201,5,1057,81561,7,8,116202,116203,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-213041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-government-policies","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-immigration","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-migrant-crime","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-safety","23":"tag-saggart","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories","26":"tag-women-and-children","27":"tag-womens-coalition-on-immigration","28":"tag-world","29":"tag-world-news","30":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115655348352049246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}