The collective #NousToutes - Unicef France (read the full list of signatories below)
“We are between 0 and 15 years old. We are at least 140,000 children exposed to violence in our homes. In 2016, 131 of our people were killed, 67 within their families. We are officially 52,000 each year to undergo physical and psychological violence, and many more who do not speak of it. Over 165,000 have been raped or attempted raped, often by someone in our family. We are children, adolescents, from all walks of life, girls and boys, victims of adult violence. While we are afraid in our homes, the measures that protect us from the Covid-19 epidemic underway at the same time lock us in and put us in greater danger. The current isolation makes it even more difficult to perceive the signs of the violence we are experiencing. Our schools are closed and the vigilance we enjoyed is no longer possible. Our silence is a cry, hear it. "
These words, children do not say them, they are not always expressed and even less in these terms of adults. Yet adults must hear them and must know. This is why we, associations working in the field of childhood and associations for the protection of children's rights, write these words for them, to protect them. We cry out.
As the eighth week of confinement begins tomorrow, it is certain that situations of violence against children will increase in these particular circumstances. 80% of violence against children takes place within the home. The number of calls to 119 has increased by more than 20% since the start of containment and even jumped 89% last week. The situation is serious, it is urgent. Confined, children see their social interactions diminish and their chances of being able to confide what they are going through, to find respite or to be helped by a caring adult are tiny. The means of alerting are therefore reduced, and emergency numbers take on even greater importance. They can in some cases be the only solution. The significant increase in reports to 119 proves that awareness is necessary and that it must imperatively continue.
🚨 @UN UNICEF_France and the collective @NousToutesOrg launch today the campaign HEAR THEIR CRIS. This is aimed directly at children and adolescents · victims or witnesses of violence to encourage them to contact the 119. ☎ #EnentendLeursCris
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The information and awareness campaign that we launched is aimed at children and young people by using simple words so that they understand and speak about them, by characterizing what violence is to help them identify them, by choosing to communicate in priority on social networks (#EntendonsLeursCris), which adolescents frequent and by targeting the press intended for children.
In France, more than 50,000 children and adolescents are victims of physical, sexual and psychological violence each year.
Personalities are addressing children at the call of #NousToutes. Share this video around you! #EnendendLeursCris # 119in️ pic.twitter.com/xGC3B2StoD
This awareness had obvious effects on the calls to 119, we will continue it. Indeed, after confinement will come the end of confinement, with important economic and social consequences, which risk weakening families, in particular the most vulnerable, and perpetuating or further increasing violence against children.
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More generally, the cry that we launch must be heard by everyone: during confinement as after, it is and will be crucial to redouble our vigilance and to report to 119 any doubt concerning violence, physical, psychological or sexual, including children could suffer. We can never say it enough: better to report, at the risk of making a mistake, rather than leaving a child in danger. "
The complete list of co-signers from the #NousToutes Collective - UNICEF France
AEDE Collectif Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l'Enfant, Aide et Action , ANACEJ , CNAEMO , Colossus with feet of clay , Children's rights , L'Enfant Bleu , International Social Service France , Solidarité Laïque , SOS Children's Village , UNIOPSS , COFRADE , SNMPMI (National Union of PMI Doctors), CNAPE (federation of child protection associations), France Parrainage s, Repairs! 75 and Repairs! 94 , Association Enfant Present , ANPF (National Association of Family Placements), Le Monde à Travers un Regard , DEI , Association StopVEO , YES! 4 Humanity , Innocence in Danger , Hope CFDJ , AFFA (Francophone Association of Autistic Women), Le Refuge Foundation , ANDEF (National Association of Child and Family Directors), Vers Le Haut , Childhood and Sharing , BICE , Education Against Racism Foundation, for equality , Traumatic Memory and Victimology , Association of Psychiatrists in the Infanto-juvenile sector , ANAS (National Association of Social Service Assistants), FFJ (French Youth Forum), OVEO (Observatory of ordinary educational violence), Asmae Sister Emmanuelle , Excision parlons-en , Un Enfant une famille , FIEP (International Federation for Parent Education), Feminist Collective against Rape , International Association of Victims of Incest