UN Special Rapporteurs say reports show children alleging sexual abuse by a father in France have been ordered into visitation during investigations, and mothers who refuse risk prosecution under a law called non-représentation d’enfant.
UN rapporteurs Reem Alsalem and Ai Kihara-Hunt report cases where children alleging sexual abuse were still placed in visitation with accused fathers during ongoing investigations.
French law can expose a parent who refuses ordered contact to prosecution for non-représentation d’enfant, though recent legislative changes have reduced such prosecutions.
A National Assembly bill would allow rapid provisional protection orders—72 hours for prosecutors and 15 days for judges—and is pending in the Senate.
France's handling of child sexual abuse allegations in custody cases raises alarm, UN. In November 2025, France enacted a law that redefined rape and sexual assault around consent, following a public reckoning after the mass rape trial of Dominique Pelicot and 50 co-defendants. THIS DAY @ LAW Berlin Airlift ends The Berlin Airlift, a US-UK effort to circumvent a Soviet blockade of allied-occupied West Berlin, ended on September 30, 1949.
"When credible allegations of child sexual abuse are raised, authorities must ensure that the best interests of the child remain the primary consideration in all administrative and judicial decisions," Alsalem and Kihara-Hunt said. 22 Nazi leaders convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg On September 30, 1946, the international military tribunal constituted by the Allied powers in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes committed during World War II.
A Paris court on Tuesday sentenced a man to one year under house arrest with an ankle tag for sexually assaulting primary schoolchildren in his care. The sentence is the heaviest imposed since multiple allegations of sexual or physical violence emerged in recent months against monitors the city employs to look after ch
UNITED NATIONS, September 3 (IPS) - A new report from UNICEF finds that approximately 1 in 5 of all children surveyed reported facing tech-facilitated sexual abuse or exploitation in a single year. Read the full story, “UNICEF Report Underscores Rising Rates of Tech-Facilitated Sexual Abuse Targeting Children”, on glob
The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, on Monday voiced concern over the conditions in which female inmates were experiencing at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF), saying that after reporting alleged sexual harassment, privacy violations, threats, and violence, they we
The report, released on Thursday, found that the figure represented about one in every five children within the age group surveyed.
UNICEF on Thursday reported that nearly one in five internet-using children aged 12 to 17 across 21 countries experienced technology-facilitated sexual exploitation or abuse within a single year, with an estimated 20 million children subjected to at least one form of abuse. The findings expose a substantial enforcement
Judge says Tusla was found ‘completely wanting‘ in the case and that child protection cannot ‘take back seat to cultural sensitivities’
Loading more related stories...
Open the app view to save this story, compare related coverage, and continue from the same source.