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Goretti Horgan

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amendment to the Irish Constitution. She was later National Organiser of the Anti Amendment Campaign. In Northern Ireland, she was a founder member of the Derry Women's Right to Choose Group and of Alliance for Choice. She is a campaigner for children's rights and for the rights of disabled people.
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Horgan is also a socialist and women's rights activist, particularly known for her pro-choice campaigning. She was a member of the first Women's Right to Choose Group in Ireland in the early 1980s and a founder of the Anti Amendment Campaign – the campaign to oppose the Eighth (anti-abortion)
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She has been on trial, and acquitted of all charges, for anti-war activity. She was one of nine women who occupied the Raytheon facility in Derry in January 2009, during the Israeli assault on
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in Derry with their daughter, Matty. She was the official leader of the
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In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing
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the writer, journalist, and fellow socialist. They live in the
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Irish
socialist
Ulster University
Northern Ireland
Cork
Maria Goretti
England
Dublin
County Londonderry
Socialist Workers Party
Eamonn McCann
Bogside
Socialist Environmental Alliance
Gaza
Operation Cast Lead
Feminist Anti-War Resistance
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Profile: University of Ulster staff
Archived
Wayback Machine
NIAPN website
Archived
Wayback Machine
Profile
Archived
Wayback Machine
Profile
Archived
Wayback Machine
"UN commitment to accountability and "Operation Cast Lead" - HRC 16th session - NGO statement (Al-Haq, al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Badil Resource Center, PCHR, Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling)"

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