Over 40 NGOs are asking the Government, in an open letter, for urgent measures to harmonise national legislation with the provisions of Directive (EU) 1385/2024 on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, according to a FILIA Centre press release sent to AGERPERS on Monday.

„In the first half of the year alone, 648 cases of rape and 1,983 cases of rape of a minor were registered with the police, to which must be added hundreds of cases of sexual assault, sexual corruption of minors, solicitation of minors for sexual purposes and sexual harassment. However, many victims of sexual violence do not go to the police for fear that they will be prosecuted by the authorities and the community, for fear that the perpetrators will retaliate or because they do not know that what they have experienced is a form of violence,” the release reads.

The letter, addressed to Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, Justice Minister Alina Gorghiu and Family, Youth and Equal Opportunities Minister Natalia Intotero, is initiated by the Network for the Prevention and Combating of Violence against Women.

AGERPRES