Paris rally backs comprehensive sexist violence law as National Assembly votes
World with Women held its first rally in Paris on Tuesday, 13 October, with crowd counts ranging from several hundred to about 4,000. The same afternoon, the National Assembly voted on the loi intégrale against sexist and sexual violence.
A rally of disputed size in Paris
On Tuesday, 13 October 2026, the World with Women movement held its first mobilisation at the Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad in eastern Paris. Les Echos put the crowd at about 4,000 according to the official count, while Le Figaro reported several hundred people. The two outlets do not reconcile the figures, so the crowd size is not settled by either account. Les Echos described the participants as women of all generations and backgrounds, united around a shared ambition. Le Figaro reports that the movement seeks greater equality between the sexes and support for the loi intégrale. Its headline frames the message as 'if women stopped, the world would stop' and says the movement wants to emulate Iceland and Spain.
The loi intégrale vote
The National Assembly voted on the loi intégrale on the afternoon of 13 October, according to Le Figaro. On 12 October France 24 described the proposal as a text against sexist and sexual violence whose ambition runs from the prevention of victims to the conviction of perpetrators. France 24 framed the debate as whether the law is a revolution or an illusion.
- Feminist and children's collectives march from Place Vendôme to the National Assembly
- World with Women holds its first mobilisation at Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad, Paris
- National Assembly votes on the loi intégrale
The scale of sexual violence
France 24 reports that 132,349 victims of sexual violence were recorded in France in 2025. The large majority were women, and nearly six in ten were minors. These figures form the backdrop to the bill debated in the Assembly.
Child testimony in court
Le Monde's report focuses on the difficulty courts face in taking children's testimony into account. On Monday, 5 October, feminist and children's collectives gathered at Place Vendôme in Paris, where speeches preceded a march to the National Assembly, where deputies were debating the issue. The slogan 'children are serious people' was voiced at the start of that gathering, according to Le Monde.
