Tag: Human rights
Marie Toussaint (EELV): “We are building a fortress Europe by denying a humanitarian scandal”
On the eve of a summit in Granada, Spain, European Union member countries reached an agreement on how to deal with migration crisis situations. It was a necessary step for…
the sending of a Kenyan force worries NGOs after a history of police violence
While the United Nations Security Council voted on Monday, October 2, a resolution for Kenya to lead an international force in Haiti, civil society organizations are concerned about the capacities…
seventy proposals to better fight against mistreatment
A report to better fight against mistreatment: on the elderly, dependent, sick people, but also among young people and more generally at all levels of society. This Monday, after five…
Facies checks: “We are waiting for the Council of State to recognize the State’s failings”
The Council of State is considering this Friday, September 29, the highly sensitive issue of facial identity checks. Six associations have seized the highest French administrative court to force the…
meeting of the NGO G100 around displaced people in Central Africa
The G100, an NGO bringing together influential women, present in around a hundred countries through its Migration and Refugee Resettlement branch, organized a meeting in Cameroon on the situation of…
a pro-democracy figure sentenced to four years in prison for lèse-majesté
A court in Bangkok on Tuesday, September 26, sentenced an important figure in Thailand’s pro-democracy movement to four years’ imprisonment for lese majeste, under a controversial law that younger generations…
Uighur academic Rahile Dawut sentenced to life in prison
A Uyghur academic has been sentenced to life in prison in China. A specialist in the culture of this Muslim minority in the west of the country, Rahile Dawut, 57,…
Russians who left their country threatened with expulsion
Serbia hosts a large Russian population having fled the Putin regime or mobilization in the Russian army for the war in Ukraine. It is trying to expel at least three…
Supreme Court votes on decriminalization of abortion
The Brazilian Supreme Court began analyzing on Friday September 22 an appeal calling for the decriminalization in the country of abortion up to the 12th week. This vote dominates the…
in Champagne vineyards, the living conditions of foreign workers cause a scandal
In the Marne department in northeastern France, a supposed case of modern slavery in the Champagne vineyards has come to light. A collective accommodation place for agricultural workers was closed…