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Joint presentation of the speakers framework for addressing harms to women & children from men's drinking, followed by audience discussion.

To mark the United Nations' international campaign, 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence 2025, Alcohol Action Ireland organised a webinar examining the role of alcohol in such violence. The keynote speakers are joint authors of a major review paper - Harms to women and children from men’s alcohol use: An evidence review and directions for policy

This webinar includes presentations of the evidence around the impact of alcohol on the safety of women and children followed by a panel discussion featuring Allison Graham (CEO, Saoirse Domestic Violence Services), Dr Michelle Walsh (CEO, MOVE Ireland - Men Overcoming Violence) & academic, feminist activist and patron of AAI’s Silent Voices initiative Ailbhe Smyth, as well as a Q&A session on a framework to address such harms.

Prof Anne-Marie Laslett

Alcohol’s impact on children’s rights to health, safety, security, education and services

Harm to children from alcohol can occur prenatally and throughout childhood. Harms can include being physically hurt, verbally or emotionally abused, neglected and exposed to domestic violence because of others’ drinking. Adolescents and young people are at greater risk than younger children, adding exposure to harms from their own (sometimes underage) drinking while harms from others’ drinking expands beyond the home to occur in public places, including streets and entertainment areas. Parents’ and caregivers’ drinking can compromise child-rearing, influence adolescent heavy alcohol use, and result in poorer child social and educational outcomes, mental and physical ill-health and injury, maltreatment and family violence.

Dr Ingrid Wilson

Alcohol-related intimate partner violence through a feminist lens

The role of alcohol in men’s perpetration of intimate partner violence has been a contested issue, despite longstanding evidence that alcohol increases the risk and severity of the violence. In this presentation, Dr Wilson will draw on her own research with Australian women and global qualitative research to demonstrate the complexity of the experience of alcohol-related intimate partner violence. She will show how men’s drinking disempowers women (and children) over and above the threat of violence. By taking an explicit feminist lens to this issue, this presentation centers women's experiences of alcohol-related IPV and the broader impacts of men’s drinking. She aims to move the discussion forward to designing interventions to improve the safety of women (and children) where perpetrator alcohol use is intertwined with their use of violence.

Bio details

Anne-Marie Laslett is a Professor and National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR) at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Anne-Marie has worked in public health on alcohol and drug epidemiology for over two decades. She is internationally renowned for her research on Alcohol's Harm to Others, particularly its harms to women and children.

Dr Ingrid Wilson is an Associate Professor in the Health & Social Sciences Cluster at the Singapore Institute of Technology and Honorary Research Fellow at the Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University. A feminist researcher on gender-based violence, her research explores opportunities to reduce alcohol-related intimate partner violence, with a particular emphasis on the experiences of women survivors. Ingrid has a PhD in women’s health from La Trobe University and an Honours degree in Criminology from the University of Melbourne. She is the founder of ReGen: Reducing Gender-based Violence Network at La Trobe University and has a background in alcohol policy with the Victorian State Government and the Australian Drug Foundation.

About the panel:

Allison Graham, CEO Saoirse Domestic Violence Services

Saoirse has been supporting individuals and families experiencing domestic violence for 20 years, providing a range of life-saving and life-changing services – empowering women and children on their journey to safety and recovery. It supports 500 families across South Dublin and West Wicklow each year and is one of Ireland’s largest domestic violence charities.

Dr Michelle Walsh, CEO MOVE Ireland

MOVE Ireland (Men Overcoming Violence) works in the area of domestic abuse, with a primary aim of supporting the safety and well-being of women and their children who are experiencing or have experienced violence/abuse in an intimate relationship.

Ailbhe Smyth is patron of Silent Voices - an AAI initiative to highlight issues arising from parental problem alcohol use. She is a long-time activist on feminist, LGBTQ and other social issues. Currently, she is Chair of Women’s Aid and also of Ballyfermot STAR Addiction services.