Tag: Human rights
anti-racist activist Saadia Mosbah tried for money laundering
Today, Wednesday May 22, the trial of Saadia Mosbah, one of the figures in the fight against anti-black racism in Tunisia, opens in Tunis. At the head of an association…
citizen journalist Zhang Zhan confirms she was released from prison in video
In China, in a short video message, former lawyer and blogger Zhang Zhan confirms that she was released from prison on May 13. The forty-year-old went to Wuhan at the…
“The atmosphere, from the top of the state to the ordinary citizen, is currently very homophobic”
This May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. In Ghana, Parliament passed a law last February – not yet ratified – exposing people identifying as LGBT…
the Catholic Church denounces the law authorizing the castration of pedophiles
In a press release published Tuesday, May 14, the influential conference of bishops of Madagascar protested against the law authorizing a sentence of surgical castration for child rapists. A law…
27 NGOs petition the Council of State to force the government to protect unaccompanied minors
In France, 27 NGOs contacted the Council of State on Tuesday, May 14, to force the authorities to better protect unaccompanied minors (UMAs), these young foreigners who arrive in France…
new alarm signal on the “clear worsening of prison overcrowding”
In her annual activity report, unveiled this Wednesday, May 15 at a press conference, Dominique Simonnot, the general controller of places of deprivation of liberty (CGLPL), describes a situation in…
ex-president Ali Bongo on hunger strike to protest “acts of torture”
In Gabon, former President Ali Bongo and his two youngest sons Jalil and Bilal began a hunger strike to protest against the ” sequestration ” and the ” acts of…
In Nigeria, the Senate proposes the death penalty for drug traffickers
On the evening of Thursday, May 9, the Nigerian Senate proposed through an amendment to bring into force the death penalty in cases of conviction for drug trafficking. It would…
Joe Biden warns of rising anti-Semitism
Joe Biden spoke – this Tuesday, May 7 – at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, on the occasion of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The American president has denounced the…
soon-to-be employed sex workers
In Belgium, this will soon be a reality: male and female prostitutes will be employed and brothel owners will operate completely legally. Two years after decriminalizing sex work, the Belgian…