Tag: Human rights
Controversy over the words of the director of the national police: There is a “panic in the face of demands from the base”
An interview with the director general of the national police in Le Parisien caused a stir in the political class and among the magistrates. In reaction to the incarceration of…
The noose tightens around journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan
On Thursday, the criminal court in Erbil increased the sentence of Kurdish journalist and human rights defender Sherwan Sherwani, already imprisoned since 2020 for “undermining national security”, by four years.…
With the heat wave, living conditions in prison still deteriorated, deplore the supervisors
With narrow and overcrowded cells, the conditions of detention, already difficult in normal times, become a nightmare in hot weather, say the prison guards. 1 min The thermometer explodes in…
Nike Canada and Dinasty Gold accused of using Uyghur forced labor
The forced labor of the Uyghurs at the heart of two investigations opened in Canada. Mining company Dynasty Gold and Nike Canada are in the crosshairs of the corporate accountability…
four settlers placed in administrative detention for violence against Palestinians
A week after attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, four settlers were arrested and placed in administrative detention. This controversial measure allows Israel to…
The “Sunday Journal” on strike against the arrival at its head of Geoffroy Lejeune
The Sunday newspaper is not on newsstands this Sunday, June 25 because of a strike by its employees to protest against the arrival at the management of the weekly of…
“We are not proud, we are angry”
Tens of thousands of people participated in the Pride March in Paris on Saturday. For this edition, the organizers wanted to denounce the resurgence of homophobic and transphobic violence, when…
in Poland, the difficult struggles of LGBT + for equality
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected today in the streets of Paris, but also in Sarajevo, Lisbon, Edinburgh or Mexico City for the pride march. If France celebrates this…
in the field, still fragile access in France
If the right to abortion has been gradually strengthened since the Veil law of 1975, in practice, obstacles persist, making access unequal in the territory. ” Just this morning, I…
the European Union powerless in the face of attempts to turn back the clock
If, on paper, most European countries authorize abortion, on the ground, the reality is much more complex. The European Parliament called a year ago for the right to abortion to…