The authorities rejects the request for a “comprehensive framework law” towards sexual violence | EUROtoday

The authorities rejected the request of a coalition of feminist organizations for a “comprehensive framework law” towards violence towards ladies, on the National Assembly on Tuesday November 26, judging “priority” quite the implementation of current legal guidelines, introduced the Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and Equality between Women and Men, Paul Christophe.

He was questioned by a number of deputies throughout inquiries to the federal government on this request made Thursday by a coalition of 63 organizations – feminist, “child” and union – from a “comprehensive framework law” to combat towards sexual violence in all its dimensions.

Judging the present laws “fragmented and incomplete”they proposed 140 measures, masking the areas of justice, legislation enforcement, training, well being, to combat towards “all forms of sexual violence” : harassment, incest, youngster crime, cyberviolence, “porncriminal industry”, “gynecological violence”…

“The protection of associations is a priority”

“We will all agree that [la lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes]it is also a question of men, and I think that it is important that a man finally addresses men to raise these questionssaid Mr. Christophe again. There is certainly awareness to be had when 96% of cases of aggression are [perpétrés] by men. »

He said he was attentive to the difficulties of associations which support women victims of violence, who warn of their financial fragility due to the extension last August to employees in the health, social and medico-social sector of the “Ségur bonus” of 183 euros internet per thirty days, with out assure of economic compensation from the State.

Information facilities on the rights of ladies and households have warned that these wage will increase will “causing economic layoffs, freezing recruitment or even the closure of several departmental associations already weakened by subsidy cuts”. “The safety of associations is a precedence for me, I hear the considerations. Discussions are underway in order that this topic may be resolved inside the framework of the [projet de loi de finances] »mentioned Mr. Christophe.