Abad case: what is the Observatory of gender-based and sexual violence, which calls for the resignation of the minister?

Of the Observatory of gender-based and sexual violence in politics, few had heard of it before the start of the campaign for the legislative elections. It is now causing a stir, its members strongly denouncing two accusations of rape – “strongly” disputed – which weigh on the new Minister in charge of Solidarity, Autonomy and Disabled People, Damien Abad, whose resignation they have been calling for since the Mediapart revelations.