The difficult administrative journey of migrant women victims of sexual violence

Access to PMA an endless wait for French women from

In France, a migrant woman is 18 times more likely to be raped than the general population. Considered as foreigners before being considered as victims, they fight daily to obtain the protections to which they are entitled. Protections that are difficult to obtain quickly from prefectures. In this obstacle course which adds to the trauma, the La Cimade association opens an office every Friday to support these women victims of sexual violence.

People form a human chain, on June 2, 2009 in the center of Lyon, at the call of Cimade and associations responsible for defending the rights of foreigners or the most deprived, to protest against the government reform on detention . (Illustrative image)

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