One billion euros against domestic violence
Anne-Cecile Mailfert : We are asking for a billion euros against domestic violence. This billion would allow us to ensure that we can accommodate all the women who need accommodation and who ask for it. This billion, it would allow us to finance the associations which welcome them, which listen to them, which accompany them, to meet the needs.
Create specialized brigades and courts
Anne-Cecile Mailfert : We must also create new tools: specialized brigades and specialized courts. Courts and specialized brigades, it is not a utopia, it has already been done, it has been done in Spain for more than 20 years. It means trained and volunteer police officers, it means judges who are trained and volunteer to be able to judge better, take better account of, also better condemn and better support women who seek justice.
Ensuring quality health services
Anne-Cecile Mailfert : Women’s health is also the way in which they may or may not have access to benevolent and local care. There are not enough abortion centers, maternity wards close to home, we have also seen this with gynecological violence, it is also time for health professionals to ask themselves questions and improve the way they welcome , whose women they listen to, whose women they accompany.
Constitutionalizing access to abortion
Anne-Cecile Mailfert : The sexual health of women is obviously also access to abortion, which must be constitutionalized, access to abortion must be made sacred, making it always and for all a choice in their lives.
A Grenelle of equal pay
Anne-Cecile Mailfert : We are going to ask for a Grenelle for equal pay, to bring together employers, unions, associations, the State around the table, and give a boost to equality between women and men and ensure that there is no more discrimination in the company. We understood, with the Covid, that women were on the front line, we understood that it was they who worked and who were therefore paid less. We cannot fight against violence and for the health of women if we do not pay attention, moreover, to their well-being in the professional world and to equal income between women and men.
Implementing feminist diplomacy
Anne-Cecile Mailfert : It is obviously urgent and important to get down to real feminist diplomacy, to put resources on the table, to support feminist organizations around the world and develop the most favored European clause, this famous clause which said that when a country in Europe is making progress on women’s rights, all the others have to align themselves with that country, so that all the women of Europe are progressing together in the same direction.