Violences faites aux femmes

Gewalt gegen Frauen

Przemoc seksualna: Światowa plaga

Violencia sexual: una plaga mundial

Violenza sulle donne: una piaga mondiale

The Pandemic of Sexual Violence

Because their suffering deserves to be seen. Because their suffering deserves to be heard. Because their suffering deserves to be stopped. 

This summer, the European Parliament introduced an unprecedented law to ensure that member states provide adequate support for rape victims and punish perpetrators. But it has run into legal and ideological roadblocks from some countries, including France and Germany, which refuse to define rape as the absence of consent.

European institutions are at odds over the definition of rape and consent.

Only yes means yes - The story of a European law on rape

Since the right to an abortion was revoked by the US supreme court in June 2022, abortions have been banned in Alabama. Six months late ARTE reports from the conservative southern state where women face the difficult decision of leaving the state of keeping unwanted pregnancies.

USA: Abortion in Alabama

Since the right to an abortion was revoked by the US supreme court in June 2022, abortions have been banned in Alabama. ARTE reports from the conservative southern state.

ARTE Reportage

In the early 1980s around 25,000 women were behind bars in the USA. This number now stands at around 230,000 with the state of Oklahoma having one of the highest rates of female incarceration in the country.

USA: Female Mass Incarceration

Female incarceration rates have risen sharply in America in recent years.

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24 short films inspired by women’s real life experiences of sexism, harassment, abuse and violence in everyday life.