Women's Nightmare
- Document number
- 2918
- Date
- 2012
- Title
- Women's Nightmare
- Author/publisher
- The SAMU Social
- Availability
- LSI library
- Document type(s)
- Media/News,
- Keywords
- Victims (of trafficking), Trafficked persons, Criminal proceedings; Legal assistance, Civil Law Suit, Human trafficking cases, Compensation, National Referral Mechanisms; Victim support services; Restitution; Remuneration; Individual complaint mechanisms; Assistance, Residence permit, Reintegration, Social assistance, Rehabilitation, Reflection period, Repatriation; Return; Redress, Protection, Social inclusion; Residence permit;
- Summary
- The SAMU Social, a municipal social humanitarian service which provides emergency care and medical aid to homeless people and those in social distress, has launched a campaign denouncing the closure of its last emergency accommodation centre (centre d'hébergement d'urgence, CHU) in Paris. Due to close on 31 May 2010, the centre houses 52 excluded and undocumented women, many of whom are fleeing violence and require safe and suitable accommodation. An online campaign video depicts a homeless woman being violently assaulted, she attempts to enter a centre whose doors remain closed, the viewer is invited to intervene in the scenario by signing an online petition which will open the centre's doors to the young woman. Entitled ‘Women's nightmare', the campaign video seeks to inform public opinion about the vulnerability of homeless women and convince the State, the Paris City Hall and Public Welfare to intervene to ensure that Paris retains a women-only emergency accommodation centre.
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