WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:

General Women, Peace and Security: 3/25;

Conflict Prevention: 2/25;

Disarmament: 0/25;

Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 0/25;

Participation: 2/25;

Peace Processes: 0/25;

Peacekeeping: 2/25;

Protection: 5/25;

Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 2/25;

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 0/25;

Implementation: 2/25;

Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 0/25;

Human Rights: 0/25.   

S/PV.7658: "Women are not just victims of terrorist groups; they have multiple roles to play. I am convinced that the women and peace and security agenda must be fully integrated into counter-terrorism strategies. The fight against terrorism and violent extremism is a common undertaking and, to be effective, no stakeholder should be neglected."

WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:

General Women, Peace and Security: 0/2;

Conflict Prevention: 0/2;

Disarmament: 0/2;

Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 0/2;

Participation: 0/2;

Peace Processes: 0/2;

Peacekeeping: 0/2;

Protection: 1/2;

Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/2;

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 0/2;

Implementation: 0/2;

Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 0/2;

Human Rights: 1/2.

S/PV.7670: "In France, this phenomenon has reached extremely alarming proportions, with 600 individuals present in the area, including 217 women and 18 minors. To adapt to this new face of the threat, we have taken some important steps."

WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:

General Women, Peace and Security: 0/5;

Conflict Prevention: 0/5;

Disarmament: 0/5;

Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 0/5;

Participation: 0/5;

Peace Processes: 0/5;

Peacekeeping: 0/5;

Protection: 1/5;

Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/5;

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 1/5;

Implementation: 0/5;

Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 0/5;

Human Rights: 1/5.

S/PV.7847: "In Syria women suffer the worst types of atrocities — rape, forced marriage and prostitution are the daily lot for the people who live in the areas controlled by Da’esh."

WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:

General Women, Peace and Security: 0/2;

Conflict Prevention: 0/2;

Disarmament: 0/2;

Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 0/2;

Participation: 0/2;

Peace Processes: 0/2;

Peacekeeping: 0/2;

Protection: 2/2;

Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/2;

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 0/2;

Implementation: 0/2;

Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 0/2;

Human Rights: 0/2.

S/PV.7606: "At the same time, in Syria, Daesh continues to carry out summary executions and abduct women and children. In the face of such unspeakable acts, France will always call for mobilization, as it did on Friday, during an open meeting on the situation of besieged cities in Syria (see S/PV.7605)."

National Action Plan: France is submitting its 2015 NAP to a national review (that will include civil society) next month.

Initiatives: France is in the process of organising a high-level conference on peacekeeping environments in francophone countries, which will recall the importance of the WPS Agenda. France will also present the bi-annual General Assembly draft resolution on Violence Against Women with the Netherlands.

Arms Transfer Revenue in 2015: $2,013,000,000
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UN Women Government Total Contribution: $1,100,000

France was ranked 19th.

**Note: Data is provided for 2015. Data collection is underway.

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HDI (Human Development Index):
France was ranked 21.

France is included in the "Very High Human Development" catergory.

France provided female peacekeepers to MINURSO (0 women), MINUSCA (1 women), MINUSMA (1 woman), MINUSTAH (0 women), MONUSCO (1 woman), UNIFIL (39 women), UNOCI (0 women), UNTSO (0 woman).

S/PV.7643: "Sexual abuse is unacceptable, regardless of the perpetrator or source of these actions — military, police, civilian personnel, United Nations or non-United Nations."

Key women's organisation's (Women's Lobby - French Coordination) efforts in regard to gender issues include the following:

- Number of conferences: 20+;

- Number of publications: 1 (annual report);

- Social services provided: coordination, networking, and policy championing between national NGOs, international NGOs, and governments.

Types of social support provided: 

Education: Yes

Anti-violence: Yes

Women's empowerment: Yes

Gender-related training: Yes

Political participation: Yes

Anti-human trafficking: Yes

Women's health: Yes

Lobbying and policymaking: No

Fundraising: No

In France, nonprofits working with professional staff are predominantly publicly funded. Up to 56 % of their income comes from public sources, more precisely from the national government, from departments, and from the numerous municipalities (36000) as well as from social security.                                                                                                                                 .                                                                                              

France hosted the following high-level events in 2016:

- From Paris to Marrakech: translating political commitments into effective gender-responsive climate solutions March 14;

- Access to Abortion and Bodily Autonomy: achieving Women's Human Rights March 2015;

- Refugees and displaced people, victims of terrorist groups: Women and girls exposed to a continuum of sexual violence and exploitation March 16;

- Fourteenth annual meeting of the OECD-DAC Network on Gender Equality;

**Note: The information about the high-level events has been collected using available media sources.

France launched their second revised National Action Plan (NAP) in 2015. The updated NAP takes into account the numerous initiatives created toward the Women, Peace and Security agenda. The updated NAP contains an additional pillar, "fighting impunity" and expanded their pillar "Developing political and diplomatic action" to "Promoting the Women, Peace and Security Agenda regionally and internationally".

The revised second NAP supersedes the country's previous commitments in this area.

The French National Action Plan relies on 5 pillars:

Pillar 1: Participation of women in managing conflict and post-conflict situations;

Pillar 2: Protecting women against violence and protecting women’s rights during conflict and postconflict periods;

Pillar 3: Fighting impunity;

Pillar 4: Prevention by raising awareness of the issues linked to the fight against gender violence, women’s rights and gender rights;

Pillar 5: Promoting the “Women, Peace and Security” agenda regionally and internationally;

Pillars 1 to 4 have been designed with ambitions in terms of Domestic policy; Bilateral activities and Cooperation programmes; Multilateral activities.

NAP Monitoring and Evaluation:
During the commitment phase of second revised NAP (2015-2018), the implementation of the NAP will be assessed through half-yearly meetings of a steering committee (composed of relevant ministries and administrations). The French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH) and the French High Council for Gender Equality (HCE) will attend one steering committee meeting per year. HCE and CNCDH will also contribute to mid-term and final evaluations of the NAP implementation. The final report will be presented to the relevant Parliamentary committees. It has also been decided that throughout the commitment phase of the NAP, best practices would be exchanged with other EU members.

NAP Development:
Civil society was consulted during the draughting phases of the NAP, which largely came out of the May 2010 meeting of the CEDAW/CEDEF Committee in Paris with many international institutions, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, human rights organisations, and unspecified NGOs.

NAP Implementation:
Civil society has an ongoing specified role in the implementation Steering Committee. This includes women’s organisations and the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights, an independent body with a pluralistic civil society membership, charged with advising government on human rights issues.

NAP Budget:
The second revised NAP does not include an allocated budget but points out the many financial contributions they made during the period of the previous NAP in Women, Peace and Security related programmes

NAP Monitoring and Evaluation:
Specific monitoring and evaluation parties were not mentioned in the NAP.

Military Expenditure in 2015: $50,860,000,000
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The NAP does not include an allocated or an estimated budget. No indicators or actions are included that formulate strategies for fundraising, detail what level of funding is required for which specific activities, or what accountability mechanisms will ensure funding is raised and used in implementing the NAP.

Lower: 26.2%;

Upper: 25.0%.

Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.

Professional judges sitting in First instance Courts:
Women: Women: 3142,86
Men: 1818,68

Professional judges sitting in Second instance Courts:
Women: 908,22
Men: 786,68

Professional judges sitting in Supreme Courts:
Women: 153
Men: 223

Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.89

Unemployment rate (percentage of female/male labour force):
Female: 8%
Male: 9%

Estimated earned income (PPP US$):
Female: 33,148
Male: 45,845
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.72

Legislators, senior officials, and managers (%):
Female: 32, Male: 68
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.46

Professional and technical workers (%):
Female: 50, Male: 50
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.02

The enrollment difference between males and females is provided below (The theoretical maximum value is 100%. Increasing trends are considered a reflection of improving coverage at the specified level of education):

Literacy rate (%):
Female: 94
Male: 98
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1

Enrollment in primary education
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): N/A

Enrollment in secondary education
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): .95

Enrollment in tertiary education
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.16

The Government of France fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government adopted a national anti-trafficking action plan for 2014-2016, which outlines prosecution, protection, and prevention activities and a fund to protect and assist trafficking victims.The government significantly increased the number of convictions obtained under the trafficking statute 225-4-2. Robust cooperation with law enforcement in EU and source countries continued, and its success was demonstrated by the prosecution of many members of sex trafficking and forced begging networks.The government continued to protect and provide assistance to a large number of victims and partner with destination countries to address child sex tourism by French nationals. However, the government’s efforts to combat labour trafficking were weaker than those undertaken for sex trafficking, and the implementation of victim protection policies remained inconsistent among regions and municipalities.

Veterans services and benefits are the same for male and female military personnel. However, issues remain in unequal access and utilisation of services for males and females.

1 national helpline and 66 regional helplines specified to provide service for female and male victims of domestic violence as well as for professionals working with women affected by violence.

52 women’s shelters providing specified services for women survivors of violence.

While specialised services to support victims/survivors of human trafficking exist, the service quality, resource provision, geographic availability, adequate service availability based on national demand, and the functionality of national mechanism are not fully effective. 

The government had a formal procedure for identifying victims and an NGO-run referral mechanism. The Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Health, and the City of Paris provided funding for the Ac-Se system, an NGO-managed network of 50 NGO-run shelters assisting vulnerable adult victims of sex and labour trafficking. Local governments provided French language classes to victims, and some victims could qualify for subsidised housing and job training programmes. The central and municipal governments also partially funded the operation of a shelter in Paris and a small number of emergency apartments external to the Ac-Se system. Child protective services placed child trafficking victims into generalised children’s shelters. The government continued to operate a hotline for children in abusive situations, including trafficking. The government had an NGO-run referral programme to transfer victims detained, arrested, or placed in protective custody by law enforcement authorities to institutions that provide short-term care. The government also provided witness protection services for victims who worked with police to prosecute traffickers.

In 2016, France accepted 27% more refugees than in 2015, with 26,700 applications approved out of 80,000 total. This brings the total refugee population in France to: 365,109

French Office of Immigration and Integration (OFII) and the Asylum Service of the MinistryEach programme provides resettled refugees with medium-term, temporary housing and assistance to find a permanent housing solution. of the Interior, provide suitable housing for resettled refugees and places resettled refugees in one of the five resettlement programmes according to availability.

Resettled refugees are “recent immigrant”: contrary to spontaneous asylum seekers, they do not have time to get familiar with the language or the functioning of administrations. Forum réfugiés-Cosi provides them with tailored and reinforced support for 12 months. Social workers assist them with all administrative and socio-professional issues that may arise within that time.

Resettled refugees benefit from housing-related support: discovering of the apartment and the neighbourhood, familiarising with the public transport system, etc. They also get support regarding their socio-professional integration process: language and vocational training possibilities, access to job opportunities, etc.

Asylum seekers and migrants living in destitution in the port city of Calais experience harassment and abuse at the hands of French police. Most migrants and asylum seekers in Calais have no shelter from the cold and the rain, no access to sanitation, and very limited access to running water. Many depend on food provided by local organisations and volunteers. As of mid-December, local nongovernmental organisations estimated that 200 women and young children were living in camps and that 50 women and young children were in a centre run by a local organisation.

Approximately 5,000 migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees continued to live in harsh conditions in an informal settlement in the northern city of Calais.

Survey on women-at-risk in France fond: 42% of women they spoke to in Calais said they had experienced violence in the camp; 81.5% of women said they had experienced police violence since arriving in Calais; 3% of women said they felt unsafe in the camp; 56% of women said their health had suffered in the camp.