Violence Against Women: conventions signed by France

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  • August 5th 2013

    Law No. 2013-711 - Art. 1. Transposition into domestic law of article 225-4-1 of the Criminal Code of the legal definition of trafficking in human beings that the Council of Europe Convention No. 197 on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, Adopted on 16 May 2005.
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    Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, ratified by France on 4 July 2014 and entered into force on 1 November 2014.

    t is the first binding for the prevention of impunity for perpetrators of violence. It defines and criminalizes various forms of violence against women (including forced marriage, female genital mutilation, harassment, physical and psychological violence and sexual violence).

  • August 4th 2014

    Law No. 2014-873 : Equality between women and men.