Question 1362 — overseas

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Mr. Philippe Gomès draws the attention of the Secretary of State, to the Prime Minister, responsible for equality between women and men, to the painful problem of violence against women in New Caledonia. He recalls that the statistical data available to the territory date from a survey carried out by INSERM in August 2003, and already highlighted an alarming situation with one in four women victims of physical and sexual abuse; a figure nine times higher than that of mainland France and a record throughout overseas. It underlines the urgent need to update these indicators, the obsolescence of which is detrimental to the impetus and implementation of new public policies in favor of women's rights. He recalls having contacted the government, on numerous occasions in 2015 and 2016, so that the investigation national on violence suffered and gender relations (VIRAGE) led by INED can be extended to New Caledonia, like the mainland and the departments of Reunion, Guadeloupe and Martinique. He notes that, on September 4, 2017, questioned by four overseas deputies on the need to maintain funding for the VIRAGE investigation in the aforementioned overseas departments, the Secretary of State responsible for equality between women and men affirmed that “the fight against sexist and sexual violence in overseas departments and communities [was] an absolute priority” and that as such, “the financing of the VIRAGE DOM-TOM investigation” cannot be called into question. He invokes Law No. 2017-256 of February 28, 2017 on programming relating to real equality overseas and laying down other provisions in social and economic matters, including Article 146 provides that “Any statistical survey carried out in the overseas communities governed by article 73 of the Constitution by the State or one of its public establishments is extended to New Caledonia and the overseas communities governed by article 74 of the Constitution”. He would therefore like to know if the State intends to support New Caledonia in the fight against abuse against women, in accordance with the provisions of the law. In this perspective, he asks the Government to inform him of the timetable according to which the territory will be able to benefit from the VIRAGE survey.

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