Picking Up the Threads Exhibition,
European Parliament, Brussels 24th January, 2023 Responding Ethically Kevin Ryan, our artist who has done the charcoal portraits of Tatenda Mukwata, Geraldine Yanku, and Nayyab Tariq, and Martina Hynan, our artist who did our first eight portraits, all on the walls here tonight, have given us something extraordinarily important: the portraits take us immediately to…
European Parliament Building, Brussels, Exhibition of the Elephant Collective 24th January, 2023
We are a group of educators, midwives, midwifery students, families, birth activists, artists, and lawyers who have been directly impacted by maternal deaths in Ireland and who have deep concerns about our maternity services and the lack of reproductive justice for women. From 2014, the Elephant Collective began to shape art work for a series…
How Irish Maternity Services Are Failing Women and Families and Why the Irish State Refuses to Confront Realities
Elephant Collective Briefing Paper June 2022 The death of Tatenda Mukwata and the conclusion to Karen McEvoy’s inquest On 21 April 2022, Tatenda Mukwata died in University Kerry Hospital[1] very soon after giving birth to her fourth child. Her baby girl survived and is healthy. Tatenda, in her early 30s, had been living with her…
Maternal deaths in Ireland: Tracey Fitzpatrick — The Elephant Collective, Birth Activists — The Elephant Collective, Birth Activists
Tracey Campbell Fitzpatrick’s death: the accurate recording of maternal deaths for the Irish Maternal Death Enquiry On the 24 February last, Bernard Fitzpatrick, Tracey’s widower, and James and Pauline Campbell, Tracey’s parents, stood on the High Court steps after the HSE had apologised in full to the family for Tracey’s death which occurred on Easter Monday […] […]Maternal…
The Elephant Collective
The Elephant Collective, a group of educators, midwives and student midwives and birth activists, formed in 2014 with the aim of raising public awareness of the tragedy of maternal death in Ireland, the need for legislation to ensure an automatic inquest following all maternal deaths•the need for vastly improved disclosure of hospital and HSE reporting…
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