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These policies will change when the people responsible for them hear from enough of us. Pick one of the actions below. Each takes a few minutes.

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Copy this, change it as much as you like, and add your own name and address.

I am writing to ask you to support a review of how Irish universities handle reports of sexual misconduct made by witnesses. At present, a witness report can be closed without anyone looking at the evidence, because the person affected has not made a complaint of their own. I am asking that every witness report is assessed, with the decision based on the evidence, the risk to other students and staff, and any power the person reported holds over students, and that this becomes a minimum standard in the revised national framework for higher education. The sources are set out at casebycase.ie/policies.

  1. 1. Contact your TDs

    Every constituency has between three and five TDs, and each one has an email address in the format firstname.surname@oireachtas.ie. Use the Oireachtas website to find the TDs for your area.

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    Start an email to your TD

  2. 2. Contact your senators

    Senators do not represent a local area, so you can write to any of them. Their email addresses follow the same format as TDs.

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    Start an email to a senator

  3. 3. Contact the Higher Education Authority

    The HEA oversees how higher education institutions put the national framework into practice. Ask it to include a minimum standard for witness reports in the revised framework.

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    Email info@hea.ie

  4. 4. Contact your local universities and colleges

    Write to the president's office of the institution where you study, work or graduated, and ask how it handles a report from a witness. On our policies page, each university has its own email button.

    Find an institution (opens in a new tab)See the policies today

  5. 5. Share your story

    If you have witnessed or experienced sexual misconduct at an Irish university, you can send us your account. You can share your story anonymously. We read every story before publishing it on the Our stories page.

    Share your storyRead Our stories

  6. 6. Contact the media

    Coverage puts the question in front of the people who make these decisions. Write in your own words and say why this matters to you, because editors and producers set aside messages that look copied. Keep to the policy and your own experience, and do not name any individual.

    Write a letter to the editor

    Newspapers ask for your full name, address and phone number before they publish a letter.

    Send a story to a newsroom

    News desks read messages from the public. Tell them in a few lines what you want examined and why, and point them to casebycase.ie/policies for the sources.

    Call or message a radio programme

    Phone-in programmes take calls, texts and emails from listeners.

    Share on social media

    Every witness report deserves to be assessed on its evidence. Read why and take action: casebycase.ie

  7. 7. Put up a poster

    Print the campaign poster and put it up where students and staff will see it. Ask before you use a noticeboard that is not yours.

    Open the poster