Stormont politicians have opened up on their personal experiences of misogyny in a bid to call for societal change in Northern Ireland
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At the event on Monday, Baroness Kennedy presented on the new Scottish model and reflected on how it could potentially be applied in Northern Ireland. Most recently, Ms Forsythe was the victim of a "vile attack" during the election campaign in May, wherein a falsified pornography video purporting to show her was circulated on social media.
She said there is a need for wider "cultural change" to tackle the "debilitating abuse" women are often at the receiving end of. Acknowledging there is "a lot of work to do" to solve this challenge, she said it is something we can work towards as a society. "I'm not willing to wait another 20 years not just for me but for the younger generations. All parties must work together to bring the kind of radical change women and girls need.
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