France – Universal Periodic Review

Session reviewed: 43rd session of the Universal Periodic Review

Date reviewed: May 1, 2023

We welcome France's advances in gender equality and hope that France will continue to act in this direction.

Canada recommends that France:

• Adopt the necessary measures to prevent police practices of ethnic profiling and systemic racial discrimination.
• Allow medically assisted procreation for transgender men by including them in the law on bioethics.
• Ensure respect for the rights of inmates in French prisons, and of patients in mental health facilities, and take action against prison overcrowding.
• In the run-up to the Paris 2024 Games, improve the accessibility of public infrastructures for all people with disabilities.

Canada encourages France to continue its efforts to include the notion of non-consent in the criminal definition of rape and sexual assault.