It is a long-term study that of the association En avant tout(s), in collaboration with associations that fight against local sexist and sexual violence overseas.
Investigation ” Bridges between overseas territories and France draws an alarming picture. While overseas territories have data on sexist and sexual violence on a larger scale than France, they benefit from significantly fewer means to combat it.
Sexist and sexual violence explodes
To prepare its report, the En avant tout(s) association met with a About twenty local associations, especially in Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin, Guyana but also in Réunion and Mayotte.
In Reunion, the report shows that women are three more times victims of domestic violence than in France. While Guyana is the department where the number of women victims of sexist and sexual violence per 1,000 inhabitants is recorded maximum in 2021.
Another sensational fact, in Martinique, nearbyone in five women suffers domestic violence and one out of three women claims to have suffered psychological violence within their own couple.
But a flagrant lack of means
Only that to fight against these colossal figures, the local associations lack the means and structures. Like the association Narike M’sadain Mayotte, which deplores the lack of public transport, which makes it difficult to carry out actions on the ground: “ To perform a 2-hour action takes 4 to 5 hours including travel. It is therefore not easy to develop the volume of business “, testifies in the study a member of the association.
The survey also highlights the lack of financial means. Because it remains impossible to recruit adequate personnel to help victims, or to provide them with adequate assistance, such as emergency accommodation.
THE ” Insufficient financial resources do not allow the development of prevention programs or the training of the various actors in the network, in particular the police forces and the judicial system “, reads the report.
Lack of data for LGBTQI+ people
But LBGTQI+ associations are not excluded. The study finds a clear lack of data for people in the community.
What ” leads victims of homophobia and transphobia to isolate themselves, remain silent and self-censored “. LGBTQIA+ people have many anonymous and safe spaces to confide in.
Therefore, for associations, a solution is simple to improve the situation of LGBTQI+ women: that the State put the means.
If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence or you just want to find out more:
- 3919 and the government website let’s stop THE violence
- Our practical article My boyfriend hit me: how to react, what to do when you are a victim of violence in your relationship?
- The association All ahead and its help chat available at How do we love each other?
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Source: Madmoizelle
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