Latest items for France
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:28 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-2
"[France is a] country where the #MeToo movement has struggled to maintain much impetus" (para 24). In 2018, as French women began to open up about sexual abuse in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, a collective of 100 women, including the grande dame of French cinema, Catherine Deneuve, wrote an open letter saying it had all gone too far and was stifling men’s ability to seduce" (para 25).
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-2
"[France is a] country where the #MeToo movement has struggled to maintain much impetus" (para 24). In 2018, as French women began to open up about sexual abuse in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, a collective of 100 women, including the grande dame of French cinema, Catherine Deneuve, wrote an open letter saying it had all gone too far and was stifling men’s ability to seduce" (para 25).
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:28 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Blandine Deverlanges [is a] teacher and founder of the local feminist group Amazons of Avignon" (para 26).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Blandine Deverlanges [is a] teacher and founder of the local feminist group Amazons of Avignon" (para 26).
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:28 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1
"For Camus [lawyer to Gisèle Pelico, rape victim], their [rapists] excuses are evidence of French society’s 'culture of rape' being played out in real time. 'These absurd suggestions, prejudices, hypotheses, preconceived ideas … all deployed before our very eyes, and all at the expense of Gisèle Pelicot,' he says" (para 19). "Statistics from the Institut des Politiques Publiques in France suggest that over a 10-year period there were more than 400,000 cases of sexual violence in France, 86% of which resulted in no action and only 13% in conviction" (24). "Agnès Fichot, a lawyer who worked with the late Halimi [feminist lawyer] on the [rape] case, says attitudes [towards rape]...more
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1
"For Camus [lawyer to Gisèle Pelico, rape victim], their [rapists] excuses are evidence of French society’s 'culture of rape' being played out in real time. 'These absurd suggestions, prejudices, hypotheses, preconceived ideas … all deployed before our very eyes, and all at the expense of Gisèle Pelicot,' he says" (para 19). "Statistics from the Institut des Politiques Publiques in France suggest that over a 10-year period there were more than 400,000 cases of sexual violence in France, 86% of which resulted in no action and only 13% in conviction" (24). "Agnès Fichot, a lawyer who worked with the late Halimi [feminist lawyer] on the [rape] case, says attitudes [towards rape]...more
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:28 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: LRW-LAW-4
"They [defense lawyers] questioned her about her sex life – whether she [Gisèle Pelico, rape victim], was a swinger, an exhibitionist, an alcoholic, a manipulated and subjugated wife. One asked why she had not appeared angrier with her former husband, and why she had not cried more in court" (32).
Variables: LRW-LAW-4
"They [defense lawyers] questioned her about her sex life – whether she [Gisèle Pelico, rape victim], was a swinger, an exhibitionist, an alcoholic, a manipulated and subjugated wife. One asked why she had not appeared angrier with her former husband, and why she had not cried more in court" (32).
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:28 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: LRW-LAW-1
"[There are] broader questions over the toxic masculinity riddling French society, how the police, courts and society treat rape victims, the use of drugs in rape, and, of course, consent, or the absence of the concept in French law. In France, rape is defined as 'sexual penetration, committed against another person by violence, constraint, threat or surprise' (23).
Variables: LRW-LAW-1
"[There are] broader questions over the toxic masculinity riddling French society, how the police, courts and society treat rape victims, the use of drugs in rape, and, of course, consent, or the absence of the concept in French law. In France, rape is defined as 'sexual penetration, committed against another person by violence, constraint, threat or surprise' (23).
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:28 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Statistics from the Institut des Politiques Publiques in France suggest that over a 10-year period there were more than 400,000 cases of sexual violence in France" (24).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"Statistics from the Institut des Politiques Publiques in France suggest that over a 10-year period there were more than 400,000 cases of sexual violence in France" (24).
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:28 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1, DV-DATA-1
"There are about 700,000 cases of domestic abuse each year, only 27% ending in conviction" (24).
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1, DV-DATA-1
"There are about 700,000 cases of domestic abuse each year, only 27% ending in conviction" (24).
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:28 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"[There are] broader questions over the toxic masculinity riddling French society, how the police, courts and society treat rape victims, the use of drugs in rape, and, of course, consent, or the absence of the concept in French law" (23).
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"[There are] broader questions over the toxic masculinity riddling French society, how the police, courts and society treat rape victims, the use of drugs in rape, and, of course, consent, or the absence of the concept in French law" (23).
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:25 a.m.
Countries: France
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"When political campaigning began in earnest in 1971, 'we could never have imagined that the right to abortion would one day be written into the constitution,' Claudine Monteil, head of the Femmes Monde (Women in the World) association, told AFP" (para 7).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"When political campaigning began in earnest in 1971, 'we could never have imagined that the right to abortion would one day be written into the constitution,' Claudine Monteil, head of the Femmes Monde (Women in the World) association, told AFP" (para 7).
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:25 a.m.
Countries: France
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"When political campaigning began in earnest in 1971, 'we could never have imagined that the right to abortion would one day be written into the constitution,' Claudine Monteil, head of the Femmes Monde (Women in the World) association, told AFP. Monteil was the youngest signatory to 'Manifesto of the 343', a 1971 French petition signed by 343 women who admitted to having illegally ended a pregnancy, along with up to 800,000 of their compatriots each year" (para 7-8). "Most members of the French public support the move to give the right extra protection. A November 2022 survey by French polling group IFOP found that 86 percent of French people supported...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"When political campaigning began in earnest in 1971, 'we could never have imagined that the right to abortion would one day be written into the constitution,' Claudine Monteil, head of the Femmes Monde (Women in the World) association, told AFP. Monteil was the youngest signatory to 'Manifesto of the 343', a 1971 French petition signed by 343 women who admitted to having illegally ended a pregnancy, along with up to 800,000 of their compatriots each year" (para 7-8). "Most members of the French public support the move to give the right extra protection. A November 2022 survey by French polling group IFOP found that 86 percent of French people supported...more
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:25 a.m.
Countries: France
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
"A congress of both houses of parliament in Versailles starting at 3:30 pm (1430 GMT) found the three-fifths majority needed for the change after it overcame initial resistance in the right-leaning Senate. After congress approved the move, France became the only country in the world to clearly protect the right to terminate a pregnancy in its basic law. President Emmanuel Macron pledged last year to enshrine abortion -- legal in France since 1975 -- in the constitution after the US Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the half-century-old right to the procedure, allowing states to ban or curtail it. France's lower-house National Assembly in January overwhelmingly approved making abortion a 'guaranteed...more
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
"A congress of both houses of parliament in Versailles starting at 3:30 pm (1430 GMT) found the three-fifths majority needed for the change after it overcame initial resistance in the right-leaning Senate. After congress approved the move, France became the only country in the world to clearly protect the right to terminate a pregnancy in its basic law. President Emmanuel Macron pledged last year to enshrine abortion -- legal in France since 1975 -- in the constitution after the US Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the half-century-old right to the procedure, allowing states to ban or curtail it. France's lower-house National Assembly in January overwhelmingly approved making abortion a 'guaranteed...more
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:25 a.m.
Countries: France
Variables: ABO-DATA-1
"Monteil was the youngest signatory to 'Manifesto of the 343', a 1971 French petition signed by 343 women who admitted to having illegally ended a pregnancy, along with up to 800,000 of their compatriots each year" (para 8).
Variables: ABO-DATA-1
"Monteil was the youngest signatory to 'Manifesto of the 343', a 1971 French petition signed by 343 women who admitted to having illegally ended a pregnancy, along with up to 800,000 of their compatriots each year" (para 8).
Jan. 3, 2025, 12:35 p.m.
Countries: France, Germany
Variables: CLCC-LAW-2
"Many European Union countries, including Germany and France, ban domestic surrogacy. In some of those countries, families who use international surrogacy can sometimes face obstacles to registering their newborns as citizens" (par. 15).
Variables: CLCC-LAW-2
"Many European Union countries, including Germany and France, ban domestic surrogacy. In some of those countries, families who use international surrogacy can sometimes face obstacles to registering their newborns as citizens" (par. 15).
Jan. 3, 2025, 12:33 p.m.
Countries: France, Germany
Variables: ACR-LAW-1
"Many European Union countries, including Germany and France, ban domestic surrogacy. In some of those countries, families who use international surrogacy can sometimes face obstacles to registering their newborns as citizens" (par. 15).
Variables: ACR-LAW-1
"Many European Union countries, including Germany and France, ban domestic surrogacy. In some of those countries, families who use international surrogacy can sometimes face obstacles to registering their newborns as citizens" (par. 15).
Dec. 31, 2024, 4:46 p.m.
Countries: Canada, France, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Sweden
Variables: IRP-SCALE-1
5
Variables: IRP-SCALE-1
5
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:51 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: RCDW-LAW-1
"Pupils will be banned from wearing abayas, loose-fitting full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in France's state-run schools, the education minister has said. The rule will be applied as soon as the new school year starts on 4 September. France has a strict ban on religious signs in state schools and government buildings, arguing that they violate secular laws. Wearing a headscarf has been banned since 2004 in state-run schools" (para 1-4). "In 2010, France banned the wearing of full face veils in public which provoked anger in France's five million-strong Muslim community" (para 10). "It has been updating the law over the years to reflect its changing population,...more
Variables: RCDW-LAW-1
"Pupils will be banned from wearing abayas, loose-fitting full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in France's state-run schools, the education minister has said. The rule will be applied as soon as the new school year starts on 4 September. France has a strict ban on religious signs in state schools and government buildings, arguing that they violate secular laws. Wearing a headscarf has been banned since 2004 in state-run schools" (para 1-4). "In 2010, France banned the wearing of full face veils in public which provoked anger in France's five million-strong Muslim community" (para 10). "It has been updating the law over the years to reflect its changing population,...more
Aug. 10, 2024, 2:57 a.m.
Countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States
Variables: MULTIVAR-SCALE-6
1.0
Variables: MULTIVAR-SCALE-6
1.0
April 9, 2024, 10:14 p.m.
Countries: China, France, Germany, South Korea, United Kingdom
Variables: LRW-LAW-1
"The age of consent is 16 in Britain and South Korea, 15 in France, and 14 in Germany and China" (para 5).
Variables: LRW-LAW-1
"The age of consent is 16 in Britain and South Korea, 15 in France, and 14 in Germany and China" (para 5).
March 31, 2024, 3:14 p.m.
Countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Guyana, Iceland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States
Variables: TRAFF-SCALE-1
1.0
Variables: TRAFF-SCALE-1
1.0
March 30, 2024, 10:05 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1
"Ariela grew up in Colombia, where she suffered abuse and ostracization because of her identity as a transgender woman. She left home when a friend approached her with an offer to engage in commercial sex in France. The man claimed she would earn enough money to support herself and her family, as well as receive the gender-affirming care that she sought for her transition. Once Ariela arrived in France, the trafficker denied her the surgery, reduced the money she was promised by half, and forced her to take drugs and alcohol. Ariela was never allowed to reject any specific request, at any hour of the day or night. Eventually, Ariela...more
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1
"Ariela grew up in Colombia, where she suffered abuse and ostracization because of her identity as a transgender woman. She left home when a friend approached her with an offer to engage in commercial sex in France. The man claimed she would earn enough money to support herself and her family, as well as receive the gender-affirming care that she sought for her transition. Once Ariela arrived in France, the trafficker denied her the surgery, reduced the money she was promised by half, and forced her to take drugs and alcohol. Ariela was never allowed to reject any specific request, at any hour of the day or night. Eventually, Ariela...more
March 11, 2024, 3:09 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: IRP-LAW-1
"Is selling sex criminalised? It is legal to sell sex and national level soliciting laws were repealed when France criminalised clients. There are however still municipal administrative laws in place - "arêtes", which criminalise sex workers, e.g. forbidding street sex work in certain areas. Because of brothel-keeping and procuring laws it is still illegal for sex workers to work together and to let a colleague use your flat or camper. Is buying sex criminalised? Buying sex is illegal. Is organising/managing criminalised? Yes, procuring, brothel keeping, facilitating someone's prostitution, encouraging 'prostitution', advertising and profiting from 'prostitution' all criminalised." (para 1-3).
Variables: IRP-LAW-1
"Is selling sex criminalised? It is legal to sell sex and national level soliciting laws were repealed when France criminalised clients. There are however still municipal administrative laws in place - "arêtes", which criminalise sex workers, e.g. forbidding street sex work in certain areas. Because of brothel-keeping and procuring laws it is still illegal for sex workers to work together and to let a colleague use your flat or camper. Is buying sex criminalised? Buying sex is illegal. Is organising/managing criminalised? Yes, procuring, brothel keeping, facilitating someone's prostitution, encouraging 'prostitution', advertising and profiting from 'prostitution' all criminalised." (para 1-3).
Feb. 2, 2024, 6:33 a.m.
Countries: France
Variables: DV-DATA-1
According to 2022 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, the proportion of ever-partnered women and girls (aged 15-49) in France who have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in their lifetime is 22 percent (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Variables: DV-DATA-1
According to 2022 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, the proportion of ever-partnered women and girls (aged 15-49) in France who have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in their lifetime is 22 percent (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 24, 2024, 3:24 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Variables: MMR-SCALE-2
0
Variables: MMR-SCALE-2
0
Jan. 24, 2024, 3:19 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Finland, France, Greece, Qatar, South Korea
Variables: MMR-SCALE-1
8
Variables: MMR-SCALE-1
8
Jan. 24, 2024, 3:15 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad/Tobago, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: ERBG-SCALE-1
1more
Variables: ERBG-SCALE-1
1more
Jan. 24, 2024, 3:06 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: DACH-SCALE-2
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Variables: DACH-SCALE-2
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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:03 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Maldives, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay
Variables: DACH-SCALE-1
0
Variables: DACH-SCALE-1
0
Jan. 21, 2024, 11:10 a.m.
Countries: France
Variables: MMR-DATA-1
According to a 2023 report on global trends in maternal mortality from 2000-2020 published by the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and UNDESA/Population Division, in 2020 the maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) in France was 8 (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Variables: MMR-DATA-1
According to a 2023 report on global trends in maternal mortality from 2000-2020 published by the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and UNDESA/Population Division, in 2020 the maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) in France was 8 (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 20, 2024, 1:37 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2
According to 2023 World Bank Gender Data collected from the most recent ILO modeled estimates from 2020 onwards, the female laborforce participation rate (as a percentage of the female population ages 15+) in France is 52.5% (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2
According to 2023 World Bank Gender Data collected from the most recent ILO modeled estimates from 2020 onwards, the female laborforce participation rate (as a percentage of the female population ages 15+) in France is 52.5% (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 19, 2024, 11:28 a.m.
Countries: France
Variables: ATDW-LAW-1
According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), the law provides for the valuation of nonmonetary contributions. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Code Civil, Arts. 1387 et 1400-1405 (2).
Variables: ATDW-LAW-1
According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), the law provides for the valuation of nonmonetary contributions. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Code Civil, Arts. 1387 et 1400-1405 (2).