The government launches a campaign to combat sexual violence against children, the first in 20 years

It’s a campaign shock “. This Monday, September 11, the government announced in a press release that it will launch a campaign to combat sexual violence against children starting from September 15. franceinfo.

Its goal is to “arouse everyone’s attention and responsibility and encourage identify, listen and report »this violence. The campaign will be broadcast on television for the first time during half-time of the France-Namibia World Cup rugby match on Thursday 21 September. This is the first campaign of its kind for 20 years.

160,000 child victims every year

The campaign is based on data revealed by the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence against Children and child protection organisations: every three minutes a child is sexually assaulted, that’s 160,000 a year.

This campaign also aims to fight incest, a First In France. “ It is the first time that a government uses the word “incest” in a campaign, the first time that it talks about sexual violence within the family », reported the Secretary of State for Children, Charlotte Cabelwith theFrench media agency.

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The campaign remembers “that it is not acceptable that only children are responsible for putting an end to the secrecy that still surrounds and refers to sexual violence 119, free and confidential national emergency number », we read in the press release.

In addition to television, the campaign will be available in animated and digital formats, then in cinemas from September 20th. It will then be broadcast on television for the first time on September 21st, then more widely from October 6th to November 2nd.