Weird naming. I think this should be a commission on child safety or something. I initially thought, “wow, does France really have an epidemic of sibling relationships?”
Incest in French nowadays usually implies that a child has been abused. So it’s mainly a translation issue.
The exact translation is “Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence on Children”.
The full name of the commission is “Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence against Children”.
For two years they studied the sexual violence on children that happened specifically within the family, aka incest. They recently released their report with around 80 recommendations on how to better identified the cases where incest is happening, how to address it legally and what to organize to help the victims.
It does not means that incest is the only form of sexual violence on kids, it’s just that this was the scope for this commission specifically.
For example before this commission another one worked on sexual violence that happens on kids within church.
Edit: Also I think incest has a broader meaning in French than in English. In French incest means any kind of sexual violence that happens between person ofbtge same family.
It proposes that cousins be brought under the criminal definition of incest
This one does not seem to be related to (child) sexual abuse (unless you count a potentially unborn child of such an act and their higher risk of genetic defects as sexual abuse) so it seems that the commission has a rather broad scope for legal reform related to sexual matters?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
France’s national Incest Commission has published a major report containing around a hundred recommendations for protecting children from paedophiles and helping adult victims of childhood sexual abuse.
The Independent Commission on Incest and Child Sexual Abuse (Ciivise) is arguing for improved detection, judicial treatment, reparation and prevention – and also expressed its wish to continue its work beyond 31 December this year.
Sexual violence has a long-term impact on its victims, including alcoholism, addiction, depression, eating disorders and suicide attempts, as the Ciivise has emphasised in its previous reports.
With no fewer than 82 recommendations, Ciivise’s report lays out a comprehensive and ambitious public policy agenda to protect children from paedophiles and support adults who have been victims.
And along with guaranteeing victims compensation that takes account of all the consequences on their lives, it also says the government should legislate to bar sexual aggressors from claiming parental rights over children born of rape.
On Monday, the Senate’s Women’s Rights Delegation called on President Emmanuel Macron to “maintain” the commission in “its current structure” with its two co-chairs, children’s judge Edouard Durand and Nathalie Mathieu, director general of the Docteurs Bru association, which takes in victims of incest.
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