Thousands protest against sexual violence in France

Thousands of group person taken to nan streets crossed France to protestation against intersexual violence.

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

In nan 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 authorities successful nan United States erstwhile President-elect Donald Trump returns to nan White House successful January. Vice President-elect JD Vance said he would for illustration a nationalist abortion prohibition successful a podcast question and reply successful 2022, but has since emphasised that individual states should find their policies.

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

The French newspaper Le Monde reported that astir 80,000 protesters took to nan streets successful Paris, pinch 400 different organisations taking portion successful demonstrations. It said thousands of group besides took to nan streets successful smaller cities crossed nan nation, including 1,500 successful Renne extracurricular Lyon successful nan southeastern portion of France.

France enshrined abortion rights successful nan constitution successful March — a move mostly seen arsenic a consequence to nan US move to rotation backmost cardinal reproductive authorities protections successful 2022 erstwhile nan Supreme Court overturned decades-old laws protecting abortion authorities nationally. While abortion has been ineligible since 1975 successful France, nan law alteration explicitly guaranteed abortion access. France was nan first state successful nan world to do so.

Protesters besides voiced solidarity pinch Gisele Pelicot, whose ex-husband Dominique Pelicot and 50 different co-defendants are connected proceedings complete allegations that nan men drugged and raped her while she was unconscious complete a decade. In September, Dominique accepted nan 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 nan large daze for people,” said Maelle Noir, representing nan feminist corporate Nous Toutes, which translates arsenic All of Us, told The Associated Press news agency astatine nan 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]