Tag: Human rights
Twitter cuts its human rights office amid layoffs
A week after buying Twitter, Elon Musk began laying off 50% of the company’s workforce. Among all the services affected by these job cuts, one office attracts particular attention since…
the Patriotic Front is concerned about the threats hanging over the transition
In Burkina Faso, the Patriotic Front is concerned about the threats hanging over the ongoing transition. This grouping of around thirty political parties and civil society organizations denounces the sidelining…
Agnès Callamard of Amnesty International questions the authorities on the violence of 2021
The Secretary General of Amnesty International ended yesterday, Friday October 28, her visit to West Africa. Agnès Callamard notably spoke with the Senegalese authorities on the freedom to demonstrate, the…
UN warns of possible ‘atrocity crimes’ in Tigray
As talks between the Ethiopian government and Tigray rebels continue in South Africa, fighting continues. In New York, the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia presented its report…
Should we boycott the FIFA World Cup in Qatar?
The FIFA World Cup in Qatar is in less than a month: opening ceremony on November 20, 2022, followed by an inaugural Qatar-Ecuador. The excitement rises… halfway. This time, it…
Tension rises in Iran on 40th day of mourning for Mahsa Amini
This Wednesday, October 26 marks the fortieth day following the death of the young Iranian Mahsa Amini, who died while in the custody of the morality police. A highly symbolic…
Controversy after the extradition by Germany of a former FDLR rebel to Rwanda
Former leader of the Rwandan rebel group FDLR Straton Musoni was convicted in Germany of crimes against humanity in 2015. After serving his eight-year prison sentence, several concurring press sources…
Two and a half months after his attack, Salman Rushdie is still suffering
Stabbed in August in the United States, the British writer Salman Rushdie has since lost the sight of one eye and the use of one hand, among other serious consequences,…
European Parliament slams TotalEnergies megaproject in Uganda, Kampala stiffens
Kampala reacted on Friday, September 16, to the resolution adopted the day before by MEPs which singled out the TotalEnergies oil exploitation megaproject in Uganda and Tanzania, in particular because…
Yaël Braun-Pivet: the repatriation of jihadist families from Syria “is inevitable”
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned France to reconsider the repatriation requests of two families of jihadists stranded in Syria, Emmanuel Macron announced the launch of a citizens’…