"I've Emptied My ELP": a Report Points to the Cost of Sexual Violence for the Victims
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A parliamentary report warns about massive expenses, between lawyers and medical care, for victims of gender-based and sexual violence.
"The financial consequences (...) for the victims remain the submerged face of the iceberg" of the VSS, writes MPs Sandrine Josso (MoDem) and Elise Leboucher (LFI), in the preamble of their report, the result of 125 hearings conducted over six months. The two parliamentarians thus point out the absence of a major study, like that carried out in Spain, to quantify all the costs associated with these attacks, "both for society and for the victims"…
After six months of work and more than 125 people interviewed, Sandrine Josso, the deputy Modem of the 7th riding of Loire-Atlantique and the deputy LFI of the 4th district of Sarthe, Elise Leboucher, both rapporteurs of the delegation to women's rights of the National Assembly have returned their work. Their record is without appeal: the means devoted by the State to the fight against gender-based and sexual violence and to the accompaniment of…
Céline Piques, spokesperson for the association Osez le feminisme !
Taking care of yourself, hiring a lawyer, moving away from the abuser, seeing his professional life deteriorate at the risk of losing his income... Subjugating gender-based and sexual violence has a cost. To prevent the victims from trining financially, MPs Élise Leboucher (LFI) and Sandrine Joseo (Movement Démocrate) present an edifying report to the National Assembly.
A parliamentary report reveals the magnitude of the costs that victims of gender-based and sexual violence often have to pay out of their pockets.The members of the House of Commons are... Read more Sexual violence, the hidden bill that can change the lives of victims appeared first on Le Singulier.
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