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University shows students how to intervene if a witness of sexual harassment
UCC'S 'BYSTANDER INTERVENTION' PROGRAMME SEES INCREASED SIGN-UPS IN WAKE OF ASHLING MURPHY KILLING
Mark Cooper, a second-year law and business student at University College Cork, last week joined the university’s efforts to safeguard women in the wake of the killing of Ashling Murphy in Tullamore, Co Offaly.
He was not alone. Usually, “four, or five” students sign up for a place on the UCC “Bystander Intervention” programme which teaches students how to intervene if they witness sexual harassment.
Last Thursday, in the wake of the Murphy killing, over 30 students had come forward to join the intervention programme, says law academic Prof Louise Crowley, who set it up.
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