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| Born | 11 January 1971 Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
| Occupation | Feminist |
Yael Mellul (born 11 January 1971 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French women's rights activist and former criminal lawyer, specializing in domestic violence. [1] [2]
Yael Mellul pursued legal studies and, after attending the Paris Bar School and obtaining a DEA in Private Heritage Law from the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, she was sworn in as a lawyer in December 1995. From 2000 to 2006, she worked as a collaborating lawyer at Maurice Guigui's firm, who was associated with former Paris Bar President Guy Danet. [3]
She proposed the introduction of psychological domestic violence as a criminal offense in French law, which was formalized in the law of 9 July 2010. For her work, she was named "Woman of the Year" by Marie Claire magazine. [4] [5] [6]
From 2011 to 2014, she provided training on psychological violence at the French National School for the Judiciary.
In November 2014, she called out Alexandre Bompard, CEO of Fnac, resulting in the store withdrawing its recommendation of Alain Soral's antisemitic book Comprendre l'empire. [7]
In March 2016, she co-founded the Printemps républicain. [8] On 22 April 2018 she signed the "Manifesto Against the New Anti-Semitism," written by Philippe Val, [9] alongside 250 other intellectual, political, and religious figures.
In October 2016, she founded and chaired the Femme et Libre association and, together with philosopher Lise Bouvet, submitted a project to the UN advocating for French laws that penalize clients of prostitution. [10]
She joined Les Vraies Voies on Sud Radio as a commentator in June 2019. In August 2019, she wrote to the Paris prosecutor to report the international dimensions of the pedophile network involving Jeffrey Epstein, criticizing the slow pace of justice. In September, she tasked lawyer Christophe Lèguevaques with gathering evidence against Epstein's accomplices in France and safeguarding the financial interests of the victims. [11] [12] [13] [14]
As the legal coordinator of the victim support unit at the Monceau Center, she co-led a working group with Hélène Furnon-Petrescu on psychological violence and forced suicide, under the Grenelle against domestic violence and the State Secretariat for Gender Equality. [10]
On 29 January 2020 a law protecting victims of domestic violence was passed by the National Assembly, with an aggravated clause in Article 222-33-2-1 of the Penal Code: "The penalties are increased to ten years' imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 euros when the harassment has led the victim to commit or attempt suicide". [15] [16] On 4 February she published an op-ed in Libération titled "Violence Against Women: Should Coercive Control Be Enshrined in Law?" On 9 June 2020 the Senate reviewed and passed a bill against forced suicide. [17] [18] [19] On 24 November 2021 she was heard during discussions on the creation of a specific offense for school bullying with aggravating circumstances of suicide or attempted suicide, which was passed on 1 December 2021. [20]
In 2024, she criticized actor Omar Sy for denouncing French individualism from his villa in Los Angeles, [21] the government's unfulfilled promises regarding forced suicide in Blast , [22] Candace Owens transphobic attacks on French First Lady Brigitte Macron, on RMC Story [23] and a society of exacerbated individualism that pushed a woman to endure ten years of torture, during the Mazan rapes affair, on Eleanor Beardsley'show on NPR Music. [24] [25]
In 2013, she called for the reopening of the investigation into the suicide of Krisztina Rády , the wife of singer Bertrand Cantat, to recognize the concept of forced suicide. [26] In 2014, she also represented one of the plaintiffs in the Georges Tron case. [27] After leaving the bar in 2016, she filed a complaint against Bertrand Cantat in May 2018, which was dismissed in June, before Cantat sued her for false accusations in August. [28] [29] [30]
She has a son with Simon Pinto, director of Bansard International, to whom she was married from 1997 to 2005.
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Violence againts Women in Benin is a crucial development issue that affects the dignity of women. They can be exercised in all areas of life and affect women from all social categories. These violences are multifaceted and mainly affect women of low social categories. In Benin, nearly 3 out of 5 women are victims of gender-based violence.
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