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The France Victimes association has set up Mémo de Vie, a support platform for victims and witnesses of violence: domestic violence, family violence, harassment, discrimination ….
Created to help anyone who has been the victim of repeated violence, “Mémo de Vie” is free of charge, and can be accessed at https://memo-de-vie.org/ on phones, tablets and computers, and can be accessed without a connection.
The site is secure, free and highly confidential. Once an account has been created, a secure area is set aside for official documents and media: injury photos, screenshots, videos, audio recordings and more. You can also keep a diary to describe what happened. Finally, the platform provides access to resources and support numbers to help people cope.
Unfortunately, the Memo de Vie interface is only French-speaking, but that does not prevent you from using this tool to submit your documents in the language of your choice. Don’t hesitate to ask for help someone you trust or within our community.
Prevention and fight against sexual and gender-based violence

Sexism
Manifestations of sexism at work are multifaceted, can be experienced differently by those who experience it, and can have repercussions on employees’ working lives.
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A number of acts and behaviours based on sex (discrimination or insults on the grounds of sex) or with sexual connotations (sexual harassment, etc.) already targeted by the law, by what is known as “ordinary sexism” is the subject of a specific provision in the Labour Code concerning the prohibition of “all sexist behaviour“, (law of 17 August 2015 on social dialogue and employment). The law of 8 August 2016 on labour, the modernisation of social dialogue and the securing of professional careers reinforced these provisions.
Excerpts from the KIT POUR AGIR CONTRE LE SEXISME
– Trois outils pour le monde du travail
A tool to fight sexism
Supported by the Conseil supérieur de l’Égalité professionnelle entre les femmes et les hommes (CSEP) a kit ” Agir contre le sexisme au travail “ is available to all; it contains reference sheets for victims of sexist behaviour, employers, human resources departments and staff representatives, and proposes ten levers of action to act within the company against sexism.
A tool to raising awareness against ordinary sexism
A plateform dedicated to ordinary sexism has been created by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces. This awareness and information tool has been designed to understand and fight against ordinary sexism.
Sexual harassment
January 2019: prévenir le harcèlement sexuel au travail (ANDRH white paper intended to give benchmarks and keys to RHs but not only! )
March 2018: analyse et recommendations du comité d’éthique du CNRS
Collective against Sexual Harassment in Higher Education : CLASHES
Association for Victim Assistance
The Wall of Hands: a code to help people in control talk about it (see the official campaign website here)

this is a black dot drawn in the hand, which shown to a trusted person means : “I am a victim of violence, I need help and I have difficulties to talk about it freely”
In real life, the person who sees this code is tasked of discreetly initiating the conversation, and referring the victim to appropriate professional structures.
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- AFVT : https://www.avft.org. The European association against violence against women at work is an autonomous feminist association which defends the rights at work and the integrity of the person. Its field of action and reflection is all forms of violence against women. On the AFVT website, you will find a lot of advice and tools to help you gather the evidence you need to file a complaint.
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- Managed by the ‘Défenseure des droits et des associations’, the antidiscriminations.fr platform, is a service for reporting and helping victims of discrimination, in order to assist them free of charge to restore their rights. The platform is also accessible by a telephone number: 3928. Specialized lawyers , specially trained in discrimination, can listen to you and answer your questions.
Gender-based and sexual violence, legal classification
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- Criminal offences (délits in french): sexual harassment, sexual assault, discrimination, sexual exhibition, moral harassment, telephone harassment, pornography, verbal abuse, physical abuse, gender-based outrage
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- Crimes: rape
Different forms of violence sexist and sexual violence at work? what does the law say? what are the sanctions? See this table extracted from the booklet AGIR CONTRE LES VIOLENCES SEXISTES ET SEXUELLES AU TRAVAIL published by the Centre Hubertine Auclert.
Reporting
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- from your equality correspondents (egalite@irap.omp.eu)
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- UPS staff: contact the listening unit (cellule-ecoute-violences@univ-tlse3.fr) at the University Toulouse 3 (see plaquette)
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- CNRS staff: contact the DRH (Ingrid.Bonet@dr14.cnrs.fr) service of the DR14 or the prevention medicine (medecine-prevention@dr14.cnrs.fr). See sheets The moral harassment at work and Treatment of situations of sexual harassment at work and the circular CIR211829DRH (12/04/2021).
Find the contact persons in order to best accompany people who are victims of discrimination, harassment or any other violence, tools exist and are available to agents according to their administration or that of the laboratory (IRAP, CNRS-DR14, UT3)
A sheet on the existing tools has been written, it can be consulted here
Videos about it …
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- Je tu il nous vous elles : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVXsa9GBX_Q
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- Au boulot : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMXh2kjRzwY
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- La voix du silence : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Oj7JPa0-0
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- Tea Consent (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj5NcMew6qc (french) or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8 (english)