Tag: Human rights
a communication operation for New Delhi
A rather exceptional G20 meeting – not so much for the content of the discussions, but for its location – is being held in Kashmir, a region plagued by more…
“In the eyes of the law, we have become legitimate to love each other”
In France, on May 17, 2013, homosexual couples officially obtain the right to marry, after weeks of protests. traumatic against the measure. Ten after its promulgation and on this world…
SOS Homophobia warns of the “worrying increase” in physical attacks against LGBT +
Insults, spitting, discrimination and even physical violence… Hate against LGBT+ people remains ” anchored in French society, is alarmed in its annual report published on Tuesday by the association SOS…
France’s “universal jurisdiction” confirmed
The Court of Cassation confirmed Friday, May 12 the jurisdiction of French justice to judge war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Syria. Two Syrian nationals were trying to…
For the prison controller, it is necessary to “imagine a coherent and visionary system”
The Comptroller General of places of deprivation of liberty curbs in her annual report the “guilty inertia” of the government in the face of record prison overcrowding in France. This…
French parliamentarians respond to the call of Iranian political prisoners against the executions
In a letter sent from Evin prison, six female political prisoners call on the international community to put an end to “mass executions”. They were heard by French parliamentarians. This…
more than ten people are executed every week, denounces the UN
Iran is one of the countries “where executions are the most numerous in the world”, regretted the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in a statement on Tuesday,…
Xinjiang, a laboratory for the high-tech tracking of Uyghurs
In the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China has taken mass surveillance to the extreme. In a new investigation, the NGO Human Rights Watch illustrates how, thanks to sophisticated technologies, the police…
UN committee denounces anti-Ukrainian racism in Russia
Russia has again been singled out by the UN for human rights abuses. This time it is the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. A panel of experts related…
Republican France abolishes slavery
On April 27, 1848, the nascent Second Republic abolished slavery in the French colonies. Committed to the ideas of the abolitionist movement, the republican government which succeeded the July Monarchy…