{"id":15113,"date":"2018-11-25T09:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T07:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=15113"},"modified":"2018-11-25T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T07:15:21","slug":"in-france-nationwide-nous-toutes-marches-protest-violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=15113","title":{"rendered":"In France, nationwide &#8216;Nous toutes&#8217; marches protest violence against women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nationwide &#039;Nous toutes&#039; marches protest violence against women in France\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/92NNso4YDLw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">For months, French feminists have set aside November 24 as a day for nationwide marches to protest violence against women. Protesters are hoping that last-minute blockades staged by the country\u2019s \u201cyellow vests\u201d don&#8217;t eclipse the women\u2019s message.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">France 24 &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20181118-france-yellow-vest-fuel-price-protests-macron-popularity-reform-edouard-philippe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YellowVests<\/a>, please leave us November 24,\u201d @layemeraude tweeted when organisers behind France\u2019s anti-diesel tax movement earlier this week announced a new round of road blockades this Saturday. \u201cIt\u2019s the day for #Nous_Toutes, the day for when marches against sexist and sexual violence have been organised in all of France, it\u2019s been planned for months! We really need this exposure!\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noustoutes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NousToutes<\/a>, which roughly translates into \u201cAll of us (women)\u201d, is a French grassroots movement that was born this summer when several of the country\u2019s feminist groups got together and decided to take last year\u2019s #MeToo campaign one step further and call more attention to sexist and sexual violence against women. In September, the group organised its first protest action, garnering some 600 people in Paris and a total of 4,000 across France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"embed-title\">\u201c#YellowVests, please leave us November 24. It\u2019s the day for #Nous_Toutes, the day for when marches against sexist and sexual violence have been organised in all of France, it\u2019s been planned for months! We really need this exposure!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to French government figures, some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stop-violences-femmes.gouv.fr\/les-chiffres-de-reference-sur-les.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">225,000 women\u00a0<\/a>are victim to domestic violence each year. Femicide, or the killing of a woman because of her gender, accounts for a fifth of all murders in the country. In 2016, a total of 123 women were reported to have been killed by their current or former partners, an equivalent to roughly one woman every three days. In addition, authorities say more than 250 women are raped in France every day, and as many as one in three have been sexually assaulted or harassed in their workplace at least once.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the scheduled marches risk being overshadowed, or even disrupted, by parallel protests staged by the so-called \u201cyellow vest\u201d movement, which\u00a0have erupted over\u00a0the government\u2019s recent tax hike on diesel fuel. The movement \u2013 named after the high-visibility vests that French drivers are required to carry in their vehicles \u2013 held its first protests on November 17, with nearly 300,000 people mounting barricades or using their bodies to block access to motorways, tunnels and airports across France. On Monday, organisers called on\u00a0their\u00a0supporters to protest again, urging them to come out in force this Saturday, especially in Paris.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Da Silva said she wasn\u2019t worried about the \u201cyellow vests\u201d disrupting the #NousToutes protests, their planned blockades have already prompted at least one local organiser\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/376038169640709\/permalink\/384481658796360\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to cancel Saturday\u2019s march<\/a>. In a Facebook post, the organiser in Bourg-en-Bresse said she was worried the blockages would result in \u201cpeople not being able to access the location\u201d, and\u00a0said she\u00a0couldn\u2019t guarantee the safety and security of those taking part in the march.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2018Shame on you\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the past week, social media has also been awash with #NousToutes supporters calling on the yellow vests to postpone their protests. \u201cOn November 24, there is already the #NousToutes protest against violence against women. It would be very nice of the #YellowVests to ensure roundabouts are fluid, to leave cities accessible and to not protest. Thanks in advance,\u201d Laurence Rossignol, the former French minister for family, children and women\u2019s rights,\u00a0tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"embed-title\">&#8220;On November 24, there is already the #NousToutes protest against violence against women. It would be very nice of the #YellowVests to ensure roundabouts are fluid, to leave cities accessible and to not protest. Thanks in advance&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marl\u00e8ne Schiappa,\u00a0France\u2019s\u00a0minister for gender equality, said she would ensure \u201cthat participants, whatever their message against sexist and sexual violence might be, can express them in their\u00a0totality\u00a0and be heard! I respect the citizen dimension [of the movement] and wish #NousToutes all success\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"embed-title\">&#8220;I assure that all participants, whatever their message against sexist and sexual violence might be, can express them in their totality and be heard! I respect the citizen dimension [of the movement] and wish #NousToutes all success.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Others have been more aggressive in their calls\u00a0for\u00a0the &#8220;yellow vests&#8221; to back off from their\u00a0protests. \u201cYou\u2019re rendering the women who fight invisible. Shame on you. You could choose any other day. Shame shame shame,\u201d a Twitter user going under the handle @CerridwenDraw said in response to a \u201cyellow vest\u201d defending his decision to take part in Saturday\u2019s blockages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, a defiant Da Silva told FRANCE 24 that she remains confident that the #NousToutes movement will be successful in getting its message out: \u201cI think that if there are people in the streets, the media are sure to talk about it. Because this is historic, because it\u2019s t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For months, French feminists have set aside November 24 as a day for nationwide marches to protest violence against women. Protesters are hoping that last-minute blockades staged by the country\u2019s \u201cyellow vests\u201d don&#8217;t eclipse the women\u2019s message. France 24 &#8211; \u201cYellowVests, please leave us November 24,\u201d @layemeraude tweeted when organisers behind France\u2019s anti-diesel tax movement &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4220,388],"tags":[7818,1442,2256,1450,7820,4681,1441,7819,7821,1522],"class_list":["post-15113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-slide","tag-nous","tag-against","tag-france","tag-in","tag-marches","tag-nationwide","tag-protest","tag-toutes","tag-violence","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15117,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15113\/revisions\/15117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}