Question 13435 — women

Summary

Ms. Fatiha Keloua Hachi draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister, responsible for equality between women and men and the fight against discrimination, as March 8 approaches, the international day of struggle for women's rights, to the need to include on the agenda of the National Assembly proposed law No. 2169 aimed at comprehensively combating sexist and sexual violence committed against women and children. In an international context marked by the progression of the far right, increased political polarization and the progression of masculinist and anti-feminist movements, women's rights once again constitute a strategic terrain for imposing an authoritarian political project which weakens the rule of law and the universality of human rights. Wherever these forces advance, the Protection systems are weakened, equality policies contested and violence relativized. The latest report from the High Council for Equality between Women and Men underlines that sexism remains deeply rooted in society and that it is experiencing forms of radicalization and trivialization, particularly under the effect of the massive diffusion of masculinist discourses in the public and digital space. Sexism remains a structural phenomenon, present in all spheres of society: family, school, work, institutions, digital space. However, sexist and sexual violence constitutes its most brutal expression. The figures are clear: in France, 93% of major rape victims are women; 271,000 women suffer domestic violence each year; 160,000 children are victims of sexual violence and between 2017 and 2023, incidents recorded for sexual violence increased by 282%. Despite freedom of speech, impunity remains massive: in 2021, 94% of rape cases were dismissed. Judgment delays, lack of specialization, insufficient human and budgetary resources and the fragmentation of systems maintain a feeling of abandonment among many victims. Faced with the continuum of violence against women and children, the response can be neither partial nor fragmented. It must be global, coherent and structured. In 2017, the President of the Republic made equality between women and men a major cause of the five-year term. In 2022, child protection was placed at the same level of national priority. Bill No. 2169 aimed at comprehensively combating gender-based and sexual violence committed against women and children constitutes precisely the legislative tool to make these commitments a reality. It comes from the work of more than 150 feminist and children's organizations. Co-signed by 114 parliamentarians from eight political groups, it has a clearly transpartisan ambition. This text acts on all levers: structural reform of justice, police training, creation of courts specialists, reinforced protection of children, prevention and treatment of violence at work, health and psychotraumatic care, fight against cyberviolence and new forms of exploitation, protection of particularly vulnerable people. Not taking up this bill would amount to allowing an insufficient institutional response to systemic violence to persist. Its examination is possible: the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet and the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, expressed their support for its necessary and rapid inclusion on the agenda. The credibility of the Government's commitments and the effective protection of victims are at stake. She therefore asks him if the Government intends to support the rapid inclusion of this bill on the agenda of the National Assembly; if he is willing to support its adoption in order to provide France with a global, coherent legislative framework commensurate with the scale of the violence; and according to what timetable it intends to allow the examination and effective implementation of this comprehensive law.

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