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A Mother Africa cultural event in aid of Cecelia’s Foundation for the Disabled International and Mother Africa Charity Shop will take place in Athenry next week.

Eighteen children attended the childen’s sexual assault treatment service in the city in the first three months of this year.

Kilkenny MEP Liam Aylward, has called for more concerted action at EU level to respond to growing levels of violence against women during the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week.

Two Galway organisations which provide services to women experiencing domestic violence, sexual assault and rape are urging people to buy white ribbons as part of an international campaign to end violence against women.

This year the 16 Days of Action opposing violence against women will run from November 25 to December 10.

The number of men contacting Galway Rape Crisis Centre has almost doubled in the past three years according to its 2009 annual report, which will be launched tomorrow (Friday).

A Kilkenny man was last week acquitted of raping a young woman in a nightclub car park two years ago.

The doctor who examined a woman at the centre of a rape allegation has told a Central Criminal Court jury that there was no forensic evidence of a rape having taken place.

The sexual assault treatment unit in Galway gave assistance to 14 people in just four months, according to figures released this week.

A Wicklow man was last week convicted at the Central Criminal Court of the sexual assault of a woman outside her Kilkenny home almost five years ago.