La Ciivise renewed its partnership agreement on Friday with the Collectif Féministe contre le Viol (CFCV) to maintain the hotline for victims of sexual violence in childhood, which received 1,800 calls in 2024.
The line has received 7,000 calls since the call for evidence was launched in 2021, a fifth of which were from males.
“5% of calls on this line are calls from protective parents, mainly mothers, who are going through a real ordeal” to try to protect their child from incest, explained Emmanuelle Piet, doctor and president of the CFCV, at a press conference.
The collective has made 700 reports to the authorities over four years, including 247 in 2024.
“We make the report and sometimes we write to the academic inspectorate to be surprised that the child who reported a rape continues to be kept in the class with the alleged attackers, which is not in accordance with the precautionary principle”declared Ms. Piet.
In January, La Ciivise will launch a cycle of consultations with all stakeholders on “the health journey of the child victim” of sexual violence: victims’ associations, learned pediatric and forensic medicine societies, lawyers, magistrates. It will draw inspiration from the work accomplished to combat obstetric and gynecological violence.
The Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence Against Children (Ciivise) will make proposals to the government with a view to referring the matter to the High Authority of Health, which will be able to establish “official recommendations” for the world of health.
La commission “calls” the government to “grasp” of the 82 recommendations that it made in November 2023 to fight against the scourge of sexual violence against minors.
This report “has not found an answer to date, while emergencies explode, children continue to be victims”declared Solène Podevin Favre, member of the governing body of Ciivise. This college will meet the Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin on Tuesday.
The Commission will submit its proposals to the government at the beginning of February “post-Civise”but wishes to temporarily continue its work after October 2025, the date when its mission is supposed to end.
For after Ciivise, she hopes that a “established space carries public policy”, “in conjunction with the High Commission for Children” promised by President Macron.
People who are victims of childhood sexual abuse should be “consulted on public policies concerning them”as is the case for associations of people involved in health or disability policies, indicated Ms. Podevin Favre.
