Fabienne Boulard is a police major in Yvelines, west of Paris.

For nearly ten years, she has been running training courses for her colleagues, police trainees or experienced professionals, to better support victims of domestic violence.

Whether raising awareness about reception at the police station or during interventions at home, this seasoned policewoman fights the stereotypes integrated by her own profession.

She also works with associations and hospitals in her department to improve the overall care of victims.

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Isabelle Steyer, she is a lawyer at the Paris bar.

Since taking the oath twenty-seven years ago, she has set herself an ambitious goal: to protect and defend women and children victims of violence and to improve the laws to end the impunity granted to perpetrators.

For her part, Louise is an intern in gynecology-obstetrics and forensic medicine at the Rennes hospital, in Brittany.

Sensitive about the violence she faces on a daily basis, she decided to do her six-month internship at the Maison des Femmes in Saint-Denis, north of Paris.

This unique place in France allows comprehensive care for victims: medical, psychological and social.

She has one goal in mind: to set up a similar structure in the hospital where she is doing her internship.

Julie, finally, is an activist and is part of the collages movement against feminicides.

Born in 2019, this network has spread shocking messages on the walls all over France.

Its goal: to ensure that women reclaim public space - for many synonymous with street harassment or assault -, and alert citizens and institutions to the plurality of violence suffered by women and people discriminated against. 

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For nearly a year, Mélina Huet followed these four women for France 24. Each on her own scale, they fight for things to change.

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