Too Far or Too Close? The Role of Universities and Research Centres in the Fight Against THB
Opinion Piece by Aitana Radu First and foremost, I would like to start by clearly stating that I am by no means an expert in…
Category: Opinion
The Importance of Recognition and Acknowledgement
Opinion Piece by Astrid Passin Berlin, October 2023 Because of my own experience of losing a relative in a terrorist attack, my search began into…
Out of the Blue
Opinion Piece by Barbara Louw There are people among us who experienced blissful childhoods. They were safe, nurtured and loved. They played and explored the…
The Urgent Need for Mandatory Training: Empowering Professionals to Support Survivors of Sexualised Violence
As a survivor of sexualised violence, I feel compelled to shed light on the crucial issue of how professionals in law enforcement and the justice…
Modern Society – Creating new challenges for Victim Support Groups
As a former Police Officer with 40 years’ experience of working with victims of crime and, since my retirement from An Garda Siochana in 2017,…
Victim Recovery … a wider horizon
Any just society will choose to prevent problems rather than to treat them. This costs much less money but more importantly avoids the harm to…
Victims need fast support in large scale data breaches
Something unexpected happened in Finland in October 2020. A Psychotherapy Centre called Vastaamo and its clients became victims of a major data breach in…
Minding our own words
Most people will never get to meet us and I hope you never will; when we get called to an incident serious tragedy has…
Opinion: a recent decision by a Portuguese court
From time to time, in Portugal, we are surprised by court decisions that stray from progress that has been made in recent years, in terms…
Re-Traumatization – One Victims Experience
Yesterday, 13th October 2022, I was re-traumatised by a Healthcare professional. In Northern Ireland the UK govt set up a compensation fund for victims of the…