Thousands protest against sexual violence in France

Thousands of radical person taken to the streets crossed France to protestation against intersexual violence.

The protests connected Saturday travel 2 days earlier the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

In the capital, Paris, ample crowds of women and men marched waving purple placards that denounced gender-based unit and defended women’s reproductive rights.

Demonstrators voiced concerns astir a imaginable rollback connected women’s rights successful the United States erstwhile President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House successful January. Vice President-elect JD Vance said helium would similar a nationalist termination prohibition successful a podcast interrogation successful 2022, but has since emphasised that idiosyncratic states should find their policies.

Demonstrators march against unit against women 2 days earlier the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women successful Paris, France connected November 23, 2024 [Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu]

The French paper Le Monde reported that astir 80,000 protesters took to the streets successful Paris, with 400 antithetic organisations taking portion successful demonstrations. It said thousands of radical besides took to the streets successful smaller cities crossed the nation, including 1,500 successful Renne extracurricular Lyon successful the southeastern portion of France.

France enshrined termination rights successful the constitution successful March — a determination mostly seen arsenic a effect to the US determination to rotation backmost cardinal reproductive rights protections successful 2022 erstwhile the Supreme Court overturned decades-old laws protecting termination rights nationally. While termination has been ineligible since 1975 successful France, the law alteration explicitly guaranteed termination access. France was the archetypal state successful the satellite to bash so.

Protesters besides voiced solidarity with Gisele Pelicot, whose ex-husband Dominique Pelicot and 50 different co-defendants are connected proceedings implicit allegations that the men drugged and raped her portion she was unconscious implicit a decade. In September, Dominique accepted the charges.

“Unfortunately, anybody tin beryllium a perpetrator of violence. It tin beryllium our brothers. It tin beryllium our fathers. It tin beryllium our colleagues. It tin beryllium our bosses. I deliberation that’s the large daze for people,” said Maelle Noir, representing the feminist corporate Nous Toutes, which translates arsenic All of Us, told The Associated Press quality bureau astatine the Paris protest.

Demonstrators clasp signs successful intersexual unit protests successful Paris, France, connected November 23, 2024 [Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu]

Protesters successful Paris [Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu]