It is clear from the facts, not least that one in every four women in the EU suffers violence at the hands of a male family member, that half of all murders are committed within the family and that genital mutilation is carried out on some 500 000 women, that it is high time that we started to clamp down on this once and for all.
Les faits montrent clairement qu’une femme sur quatre dans l’Union européenne souffre de la violence exercée par un membre masculin de la famille, que la moitié de tous les meurtres sont commis au sein de la famille et que 500 000 femmes sont victimes de mutilations génitales.
