Project presentation
According to the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), the number of women applying for international protection has increased from 10,000 to 41,000 over the past decade, in a context of increasingly restrictive asylum policies, particularly following the 2015 and 2018 asylum law reforms. This observation is shared by the Centre Primo Levi (CPL), founded in 1995, which provides free medical and psychotherapeutic care to people who are victims of torture and political violence and living in exile in Paris. Each year, nearly 45% of its patients are women and girls.
To respond to the needs of this highly vulnerable population, the CPL offers comprehensive care and complements traditional medical treatment with social and legal support. The women supported receive holistic follow-up so they can rebuild their lives, escape isolation and extreme precariousness, and obtain refugee status, which also facilitates access to mainstream social services.
