Why are women still considered inferior and expected to be submissive to men, regarded as having little intellectual value, lacking physical/psychic substance, and thus designated as scapegoats or sexual objects to be adorned or hidden?
Yet, the struggles waged to eradicate these forms of violence over the last century and in the 21st century have democratically achieved progress in terms of equal rights.
But we are still far from achieving the goal since in France in 2014:
A woman dies every 2.8 days from the blows of her partner
121 women died from the blows of their spouse, partner, or companion.
Homicides within couples account for 19% of homicides
217,000 women were victims of physical and/or sexual violence by their partner, but only 15% filed a complaint
84,000 women were raped by men, and in 80% of cases, the rapists knew their victim.
In fact, women are still today harassed, discriminated against due to lesbophobia, subjected to female genital mutilation, forced into marriage, victims of war rapes, and subjected to prostitution.
However, the advancement of certain rights* aimed at eliminating violence against women is real, but in practice, their implementation remains lacking.
For the Women’s Rights Collective 06, it is time to act to achieve “the fulfillment of the demands advocated by feminist associations fighting against violence, notably by obligatorily transposing into French law the measures of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, known as the Istanbul Convention, ratified by France in July 2014 through implementing decrees that allow equality between girls and boys in all areas of society, whether educational, cultural, family-related, associative, political, or commercial.”
They are calling for participation in two events that will mark, in Nice, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women:
A gathering this Saturday at 2:30 PM at Place Masséna and a meeting-debate Wednesday 25th at 6:00 PM at the Court Circuit Café
