News & Views Far-right politician Marine Le Pen awaits verdict for embezzlement trial Verdict due today on whether France’s Marine Le Pen and her National Rally party embezzled European Parliament funds.
News & Views ‘I’m still haunted’: Daughter of Gisèle Pelicot speaks out in ‘remarkable’ book Gisèle Pelicot’s daughter, Caroline Darian has published the English edition of her book, I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again.
Politics French government announces new measures to combat violence against women amid Pélicot case The French government has announced new measures to combat violence against women, as the country reckons with a mass rape trial.
News & Views Protests calling for end of sexual violence erupt globally Protests have erupted across the world to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, observed today.
News & Views Gisèle Pélicot ‘honoured’ to wear scarf from Australian women’s organisation as public rape trial continues Sexual assault survivor Gisèle Pélicot said she is honoured to wear a scarf that was sent to her from an Australian advocacy organisation.
World ‘A determination to change things’: Gisèle Pélicot testifies in court for the first time After two months of reliving a decade of abuse in a public trial in France with the world watching on, Gisèle Pélicot has testified in court.
News & Views ‘We are all Gisèle’: Thousands in France support Gisèle Pélicot in protests Thousands of people in France took part in protests across the country in support of Gisèle Pélicot, as the criminal trial prosecuting her husband and the dozens of men who raped her continues.
News & Views Gisèle Pélicot was repeatedly drugged and raped for 10 years. She’s making the trial public so it never happens again. A French man is on trial after he admitted to drugging his wife and recruiting more than 90 men to rape her for over a decade, a case that has shocked France and the world.
News & Views ‘Discrimination is not welcome’: Tina Rahimi slams France’s hijab ban at Olympics Australian boxer Tina Rahimi has criticised France’s hijab ban for female athletes at the Olympics, saying “no one should be excluded”.
News & Views Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo plunges into Seine to prove water is safe for Olympics Anne Hidalgo wanted to prove the point that the Seine was safe and ready to be swam in, less than ten days out from the Paris Olympic Games.
Politics France has imposed a hijab ban on its Olympians, sparking outrage from human rights groups France has banned its female athletes from wearing the hijab while competing in the upcoming Olympics and Paralympics in Paris.
News & Views How an alliance landed a surprise defeat of the far-right in France’s election In France, a newly created leftist alliance scored the highest number of seats in the second round of parliamentary voting.