一見コスメショップ…実はＤＶ被害者支援サイト　高校生が発案　ポーランド

【ワルシャワＡＦＰ＝時事】新型コロナウイルス流行によるロックダウン（都市封鎖）下でのドメスティックバイオレンス（ＤＶ）増加を憂いたポーランドの高校生が、コスメショップに見えるウェブサイトを立ち上げ、ひそかに被害者支援を行っている。（写真はドメスティックバイオレンス＜ＤＶ＞被害者を支援するウェブページとサイト運営者のクリシア・パスコさん。ポーランド・ワルシャワの自宅で）
　ワルシャワの高校生、クリシア・パスコさん（１８）は「薬局で『１９番のマスク』が欲しいと言えば、虐待の被害を受けていることが伝わるというフランスのアイデアがきっかけです」とＡＦＰに語った。ポーランドでも何らかの暗号を使えば、家庭の外へ被害を知らせることができると思った。
　同国のＮＧＯ「女性の権利センター」が運営するＤＶホットラインへの問い合わせは、昨年３月の最初のロックダウン下で、５０％増加した。
　パスコさんは昨年４月、交流サイト（ＳＮＳ）のフェイスブックで「Ｒｕｍｉａｎｋｉ　ｉ　Ｂｒａｔｋｉ（カモミールとパンジーの意）」と題するページを立ち上げた。
　一見すると、ラベンダーのせっけんやハーブのフェースパックなどの写真が載っていて、コスメショップのページのようだ。だが、画面の向こう側にいるのは販売員ではなく、女性の権利センターの心理学者らからなるボランティアチームだ。
　「注文が入り、住所が記入された時点で、警察の対応が必要という合図になります」とパスコさん。
　話だけをしたい人は、製品情報の問い合わせからアクセスする仕組みになっている。心理学者らが投げ掛ける「アルコールに対する皮膚反応はどうかとか、子ども用の商品も必要か」といった質問は、被害について尋ねる暗号だ。
　チームはこれまでに約３５０人を支援。無償で法的アドバイスや行動計画を提供してきた。
　コロナ流行とそれに伴う規制のある現在のように「厳しい時代には、加害者はより攻撃性を増す傾向があります」とパスコさん。「パートナーに常に監視されていて、子どもをお風呂に入れているときにしか私たち宛てに書けない若い女性もいました」

■イスタンブール条約
　パスコさんは、ポーランドのＤＶ問題は「やや軽視され、放置されています…もっと政府の支援が必要です」と語り、女性に対する暴力の防止と撲滅を目的とした「イスタンブール条約」を引き合いに出した。
　ポーランドのズビグニエフ・ジョブロ法相は昨年、イスタンブール条約は保守的な家族観を損なう条項を含む「イデオロギー的な性格のものだ」と述べ、条約からの離脱手続きを開始したと発表。国内外で反発を招いた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/04/26-12:31）

Worried about reports of rising domestic violence during lockdown, Polish teen Krysia Paszko set up a website purporting to be a cosmetics shop that actually offers victims covert help.
I was inspired by this French idea, where by going to the pharmacy and asking for the number 19 mask, you could signal that you were a victim of abuse, the Warsaw high school student told AFP.
The 18-year-old decided that Poland could also use some kind of code during the pandemic, when families have been cooped up together under stress, with less privacy and more abuse.
During the first lockdown that began in March last year, the Centre for Women's Rights, a Polish NGO, observed a 50-percent increase in calls to its domestic violence hotline.
The World Health Organization also reported a surge in Europe.
Paszko created the Facebook page Rumianki i Bratki (Chamomiles and Pansies) in April 2020.
Featuring photos of lavender soap and cleansing sage face masks, the shop looks real.
But instead of salespeople, on the other side of the screen is a volunteer team of psychologists from the Centre for Women's Rights.
If someone places an order and provides their address, that's a signal for us that a police response is required right then and there, said Paszko.
Those who just want to talk will request more product information, leading the psychologists to ask coded questions like, how does the person's skin respond to alcohol or are children's cosmetics also required.
- 'Under constant surveillance' -
So far the team has helped around 350 people, notably offering free legal advice and action plans.
Paszko said the more restrictions there are, the harder it is to leave the house and even see a friend, the more people write to us.
And often aggressors will become more active when times are tough, when there are more infections, more restrictions, more pandemic fear.
The majority of those who reach out are female and under 30 years old.
The abuse can be physical or psychological and at the hands of a partner or relative.
Between 10 and 20 percent of the cases resulted in calls to the police.
I remember this one young woman who was under such constant surveillance by her partner that she could only write to us when she was bathing her child, Paszko said.
The woman had previously tried to break off the relationship but her alcoholic, abusive partner refused to move out.
Paszko said that thanks to her team's intervention, the police came and made him give up his keys, informing him of the consequences if he returned.
Fortunately that was the end of the harassment.
- Istanbul Convention -
For her efforts, Paszko won the EU's Civil Solidarity Prize, a 10,000-euro ($12,000) award for Covid initiatives.
Paszko said that the problem of domestic abuse in Poland is somewhat disregarded and neglected... More government support is needed.
She cited the Istanbul Convention, a landmark international treaty combating violence against women.
Poland's justice minister announced last year that he had set in motion the process to withdraw from the treaty, arguing it contained provisions that undermine conservative family values and are ideological in nature.
The plan triggered an outcry at home and abroad.
Last week, lawmakers from the governing conservative Law and Justice party and far-right MPs voted in favour of a draft law to quit the treaty.
They sent it to committee after outnumbering those who had wanted to kill the project.
Initiated by the ultra-conservative organisation Ordo Iuris, the Yes to Family, No to Gender bill proposes an alternative convention banning abortion and gay marriage.