Question 13290 — women

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Ms. Barbara Bessot Ballot questions the Secretary of State, to the Prime Minister, responsible for equality between women and men, about the major problem of domestic violence. Every three days, a woman dies at the hands of her partner or a former partner. In 2017, 225,000 women were victims of physical violence at the hands of their spouse or ex-spouse. And less than one in five women filed a complaint. Unfortunately, these figures, which move the whole of France, do not change. Sunday September 23, 2018, in the pages of the Journal du Dimanche, Muriel Robin, joined by 87 personalities, signed a column entitled “Let's save those who are still alive” in which she calls on the President of the Republic so that victims of domestic violence “do not die in total indifference”. We all know battered women. However, the subject remains taboo and silence sets in, in cities and in the countryside, and affects all social categories. We can welcome the objectives and actions announced and implemented by the Government since 2017, which allow us to move forward in this area. Furthermore, effective initiatives are developed by society within the territories, and in particular by associations which, through their skills and expertise, commit themselves every day to protect, accompany, help and support these victims and their families, who need emergency help but also long-term help. Of course, French society must mobilize, be able to intervene and denounce acts of domestic violence. While the fight against violence against women has been proclaimed a Great National Cause for the year 2018, while the President of the Republic, during his speech on September 25, 2018 before the 73rd General Assembly of the United Nations, called for equality between women and men to be made a major global cause, she questions him in order to clarify what the Government now plans to support, help, accompany those victims of domestic violence, in order to eradicate this major scourge which affects dozens of thousands of victims each year.

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