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Survey Of Northern Ireland Student Attitudes Towards Rape

EDM number 2336 in 2007-08, proposed by Mark Durkan on 23/10/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Crimes of violence, Sex discrimination and Sexual offences.

That this House notes with concern the findings of a recent Amnesty International Survey, Violence against Women: the perspective of students in Northern Ireland, that suggest almost half of University of Ulster students believe that a woman is partially or totally responsible for being raped if she has `behaved in a flirtatious manner'; believes that these findings evince the existence of a blame culture towards women who suffer sexual violence; rejects any suggestion that women's alcohol consumption, perceived behaviour or choice of clothing should be considered as contributing factors to rape; is alarmed at the finding that one in 10 students consider violence `acceptable against a girlfriend who nags, flirts with other men or refuses to have sex'; welcomes the campaigns undertaken by Amnesty International and student unions to confront unfair and inaccurate attitudes towards rape victims and to ensure universities and relevant agencies tackle the problem of sexual violence; and urges the Government to support work by student unions, police, universities and specialist services working with the victims of sexual violence to challenge these disturbing attitudes and break the cycle of sexual violence against women.

This motion has been signed by a total of 28 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mark Durkan23/10/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartyProposed
Lynne Jones23/10/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Jim Dobbin27/10/2008Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Martin Caton27/10/2008GowerLabourSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins27/10/2008Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Rudi Vis28/10/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSeconded
Alan Simpson28/10/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty28/10/2008Calder ValleyLabourSigned
John McDonnell28/10/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell28/10/2008East LondonderryDUPSigned
Mike Hancock28/10/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Wareing28/10/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
John Leech28/10/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
William McCrea29/10/2008South AntrimDUPSigned
Katy Clark29/10/2008North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Janet Dean29/10/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Ann Cryer29/10/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn29/10/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
David Simpson29/10/2008Upper BannDUPSigned
Brian Jenkins30/10/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson30/10/2008Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
John Battle30/10/2008Leeds WestLabourSigned
John Hemming30/10/2008Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Eddie McGrady03/11/2008South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Peter Bottomley03/11/2008Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Harry Cohen06/11/2008Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Jo Swinson10/11/2008East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Greg Mulholland24/11/2008Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned

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