Toulouse: the teams of the Information Center on the rights of women and families increasingly mobilized
Yesterday afternoon, elected officials from the Department met the 17 members of the Information Center on Women’s and Family Rights (CIDFF) of Toulouse to take stock of their activities. Since the start of the health crisis, the association has been in increasing demand.
Yesterday afternoon, on the occasion of the International Day for Combating Violence Against Women, elected officials from the Haute-Garonne departmental council met the teams of the Information Center on Women’s and Family Rights (CIDFF) of Toulouse.
The opportunity to make a non-exhaustive assessment of the actions launched by the association in recent months, and to discuss its strengths and difficulties. Main difficulty according to Anne Marty, its president, the fragility of funding, a fragility accentuated by “a logic of call for projects which transform the associations into competitors”. The needs are however very present, in particular since the beginning of the health crisis.
30% more calls for domestic violence
“The Covid has an impact on violence within the couple, it was accentuated during confinement, we had 30% more calls for facts of domestic violence. This is also linked to the freedom of speech ”, testifies Myriam Houari, professional integration advisor within the structure. In 2020, 4,875 people sought advice from the Haute-Garonne center. “All social circles and all ages are concerned. The solicitations did not stop at the end of the last confinement.
“We receive people, mostly women, upstream of the legal procedure, we have leverage the brakes they put on themselves. Most of the time, they were victims of psychological and economic violence ”, specifies Henora Guilbaud, lawyer at CIDFF. The center also organizes awareness-raising missions in schools. “Our goal is for the students to grasp these themes. We are seeing a double movement: a movement of tolerance, and another of going backwards, ”notes Margaux Di Mauro, equality officer.
The departmental council allocates an annual subsidy of € 52,900 to CIDFF. Last March, the community opened a mother-child reception center with 27 homes, “in order to respond to situations of vulnerability, creating an urgent need for shelter. This center, financed by the community, represents an annual budget of € 473,500 ”.