External resources

Do you prefer to use services outside UCLouvain? Whatever your choice, UCLouvain respects it and supports you. Here are some resources.

Sexual violence and violence in relationships

► Help for victims

• Sexual Assault Centres (Bruxelles, Charleroi, Liège) : medical care, psychological support, possibility of formal complaint and forensic investigation, if the victim wishes. Contact: Brussels 02/535 45 42, Charleroi 071/92 41 00, Liège 04/367 93 11 (or in Flanders) and online chat.
• Victim support services : social and psychological support in case of criminal offences (assault, rape or other offence).
• Victim guidance services - information and assistance, at any stage of the judicial procedure, by legal assistants.
• Collectif contre les violences familiales et l’exclusion (CVFE) : help for victims of violence in the context of a current or former relationship.
• Service Droits des Jeunes : social and legal assistance for young people under 22.
• Infor Jeunes Laeken
• Collectif des femmes
• Free anonymous hotlines and apps: 
  • SOS Viol ("SOS Rape"): 0800/98 100 or chat
  • Ecoute Violences Conjugales (relationship violence hotline): 0800 30 030 or chat
  • Télé Accueil : 107 or chat
  • App’Elles app (to call for help, transmit geolocation, make a sound recording, access the nearest help services).

► Police assistance for victims

To support the victim directly after the incident (moral support, help with administrative procedures, information on their rights), www.police.be; in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve: 010/43 63 58.

► Help for violence perpetrators

• SéOS (Service d’Écoute et d’Orientation Spécialisé) (“Specialised Listening and Counselling Service”). A prevention service for people who have questions about the notion of consent or about potentially inappropriate behaviour or who have deviant sexual fantasies. Free and anonymous call at 0800/200 99, chat on seos.be or by email.
• Praxis: follow-up of perpetrators of violence in the context of romantic relationships: in Brussels, 02/217 98 70.

Discrimination

► Information, accompagnement, conseils aux victimes de discrimination

• Unia (discrimination on grounds other than sex).
• Institute for the Equality of Women and Men (discrimination based on sex and related grounds).

Contact UNIA and IEWM for free at 0800/12 800.