WUNRN
European Women's Lobby - EWL
CLEF - French Coordination of the
European Women's Lobby
FRANCE - NEW LEGISLATION TO ENFORCE
PENALTIES ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & TRAFFICKING
Law
05 August 2013: France adapts its legislation to the Istanbul Convention of 11 May
2011 and transposes the Directive on trafficking in human beings
[CLEF,
Paris, 30 August] The CLEF - French Coordination of the European Women's Lobby
- welcomes this important Act that completes the penal framework to fight
against violence against women and that generally defines the concepts of
slavery.
1. This law includes new penalties in accordance with the Istanbul Convection.
2. 2. Regarding trafficking in human beings, the law includes an extended and precise definition of it and of forced labour, domestic servitude and slavery.
Penalties of 20 years of imprisonment are fixed for the most severe cases.
The notion of exploitation is conceived as to make a victim be a disposition of a third party, to enable the commission of offenses against her, as pimping, assault or sexual abuse.
To find out more about this law, click here (French)
A governmental plan against trafficking has been announced for next autumn.