Montpellier: a Facebook live for International Women’s Day

By Metropolitan editorial staff
Published on 7 Mar 21 @ 8:03 am

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On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the City of Montpellier offers an event to follow live on Facebook of the City of Montpellier. A dynamic platform offering in turn, interviews, testimonials, conferences and artistic proposals.

Michaël Delafosse, mayor of Montpellier and president of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, accompanied by Fatma Nakib, deputy mayor, delegate for equality and women’s rights, will launch this day at 11am, at the Rabelais Center.

An application for Montpellier residents

In this partnership logic, it is in the presence of Stéphanie Canovas, departmental delegate for women’s rights and equality within the Prefecture of Hérault, that Michaël Delafosse and Fatma Nakib, will present the App-Elles application, tested on the territory at the request of the State, and accessible to Montpellier residents as a free download. This application, developed by the Résonantes association, allows women to alert and contact their loved ones or emergency services in the event of danger.

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App-Elles aims to meet the main assistance and support needs of victims and witnesses facing a situation of emergency, danger or distress. It allows you to alert and quickly contact relatives, emergency services, associations and all the help available around you. It relays and centralizes local information and national systems.

Through the application, the objectives pursued are clear: to strengthen access to and visibility of local victim assistance resources, to offer a complementary alert system to the TGD (Telephone Grave Danger) and to optimize the quality of calls to services. emergencies.

A day in tribute to Gisèle Halimi

The 100% online event will pay tribute this year to Gisèle Halimi, lawyer and fervent defender of women’s rights, an emblematic figure of feminist struggles, who died last year. A literary and then musical tribute will be paid to him to introduce this day. The network of media libraries will also offer audiovisual programming dedicated to Gisèle Halimi to its subscribers.

This will be followed by a presentation of the actions of the Montpellier associations committed to the promotion and defense of women’s rights. Two videoconferences will also be offered: the first led by the national association En avant tous !, which will present an unprecedented study on violence experienced by young people within couples and families and the very first support chat for victims available. from the site Commentonsaime.fr.

The second, led by the Femmes et Science association, will focus on professional gender equality, through its consideration and development within two local companies: CIRAD (semi-public) and Dell (private) .

It is on the occasion of this day that the winners of the Pocket Films competition “Montpellier for equality!” Will also be announced and broadcast. “. The day will be punctuated by the sets of the Solidarity Mixers who will intervene between the various meetings.