For this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which falls on the 25th of November, protests were held in Paris and other big cities across France to raise awareness of, and advocate against, acts of gender-based violence. Within the first couple of weeks since moving to Paris, I found myself engaged in a deep conversation with my fellow exchange students about the delights of having moved to the city. However, our conversation took a gradual turn into an intense exchange of how unsafe we felt in Paris as young women, a sentiment that echoed our previous…