ECPAT France began as a campaign in 1992 and was officially registered as an organisation in 1997. Groupe Developpement, the principal member, provides the resources to carry out the activities of the organisation. These activities aim to raise awareness of the commercial sexual exploitation of children, train key actors, improve French laws and their implementation and support projects for children. Several activities also focus on preventing child sex tourism, and many links have been developed with tourism professionals in this regard.
Contact: Joaquim Nogueira, Executive Director
Phone: +33 1 49348313
Address: 40 avenue de l’Europe, 93350 Le Bourget Aéroport
Email: contact@ecpat-france.org
Website: https://ecpat-france.fr/
UNICEF highlighted the vulnerability of refugee children in France. It denounced, in reports and press releases, the sexual exploitation and trafficking related risks refugee children are exposed to in the camp of Calais.
Early in 2015, the French Government passed two decrees allowing government agencies to command internet providers to block websites that encourage terrorism and publish child sexual abuse materials.
More than 1 in 6 girls and 1 in 18 boys under 18 years old are reported to have been victims of sexual abuse. In more than 50 per cent of the cases, the abuser was a family member of the child.
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The age of sexual consent is 15 years for both girls and boys. The national legislation provides for a five years close-in-age exemption.
Analysis of country legislation on age of sexual consent, 2024
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French law provides for active and passive extraterritorial jurisdiction over offenses committed outside France. Double criminality is not required for proceeding with active extraterritorial jurisdiction for SEC related offences nor for proceeding with passive extraterritorial jurisdiction over offences punishable by custodial sentences committed against French nationals. Universal jurisdiction is provided over specified offences (genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity) if the person habitually resides in France. However, double criminality is required.
The extradition of French nationals is not permitted outside the EU and extradition is not granted when the offences were committed in French territory. Extraditable offences are all acts punishable by criminal penalties by the law of the requesting State; and acts punishable by correctional penalties by the law of the requesting State, when the maximum penalty of imprisonment incurred, under the terms of French law, is two or more years, or, in the case of a convicted person, when the sentence pronounced by the court of the requesting State is two or more months’ imprisonment (double criminality).
SEC offences are referred to as extraditable under the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) framework within the EU without requiring double criminality if the act is punishable by a maximum period of at least three years of imprisonment in the requesting State.
Criminal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1994 (status as of 2023), 1957 (status as of 2023)
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