Tag: Human rights
Germany and EU outraged over execution of Iranian-German dissident Jamshid Sharmahd
Iran executed Jamshid Sharmahd on Monday October 28. This Iranian dissident of German origin was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court for his alleged involvement in an attack on…
Joe Biden’s historic apology for residential school abuse for Native Americans
US President Joe Biden officially apologized to Native Americans on Friday, October 25. For 150 years in the United States, children of indigenous peoples were taken from their families and…
“Good governance” in Africa has stopped progressing, says Mo-Ibrahim Foundation report
The Mo-Ibrahim Foundation is releasing its 2023 report on “good governance” in Africa this Wednesday, October 23, and shows in this edition that progress in terms of governance is at…
civil society is concerned about the project to build a luxury hotel in Nosy Mitsio
In Madagascar, mystery hovers around a project to build a luxury hotel in Nosy Mitsio, in the northwest of the country. Since an official call launched by the State to…
Algeria expels Tuareg families who had fled Mali from Tinzaouatène
Several thousand Malian Tuaregs who had found refuge near Tinzaouatène, in Algeria, were forced to return to the Malian side of the border on Monday. This expulsion does not concern…
The international community is concerned about tension and repression in Mozambique
On the morning of Monday October 21, the Mozambican police repressed a demonstration in the center of the capital Maputo. Last week, opposition leader and presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane called…
anger in a detention center for foreigners after the death of a young man
In France, a man held at the Mesnil-Amelot administrative detention center, north of Paris, died on the night of Thursday October 17 to Friday October 18. His death, the precise…
Volodymyr Zelensky asks for help from the Vatican
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met Pope Francis on October 11, 2024 during his second private audience at the Vatican since the Russian invasion. After a first meeting last June, during…
Former head of China’s central bank sentenced to death | News in brief
Fan Yifei is the highest-ranking executive in China’s financial sector who has been arrested during an anti-corruption program launched by President Xi Jinping. Former Vice Governor of the People’s Bank…
These Haitians who leave the Dominican Republic, exasperated by the anti-migrant policy
The massive displacements orchestrated by the government of Luis Abinader against Haitian migrants arouse the anger of many Haitian citizens residing in the Dominican Republic, to the point that some…