Tag: Human rights
in Transnistria, the dictatorship in motion
In eastern Moldova, on the border with Ukraine, the separatist province of Transnistria is seeking to isolate itself a little more from the rest of the world. Supported by Russia,…
Volkswagen in the sights of justice
The German Volkswagen group is in the crosshairs of Brazilian justice and faces new charges. The second largest car manufacturer in the world is accused of slavery-like practices and of…
Wave of arrests of journalists in Ethiopia
They are at least 16 in detention, unheard of since the coming to power of Abiy Ahmed in 2018 who, at the time, was hailed for his liberalization of the…
Ex-hostage in Iran Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tells BBC about conditions of his release
Two months after returning to the UK, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe gave an interview to the BBC, the British public broadcaster. This Iranian-British, accused of espionage, was detained and banned from leaving…
HRW denounces abuses committed by the defense and security forces
It is a system that operates with almost total impunity. In most of the cases we have documented, the perpetrators of these crimes have not been held to account. The…
Supreme Court suspends colonial law prosecuting acts of sedition
In India, the Supreme Court suspended, on Wednesday May 11, all prosecutions for an act known as ” sedition ”, a colonial-era law defined by section 124 A of the…
From Manila to Paris, the story of Zita, a former victim of forced labor
In France, since 2006, May 10 has been the National Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade, Slavery and their Abolition. Today, one of the forms of modern slavery…
Jacques Toubon: “I have to tell you”
The book of the week addresses the issues of individual freedoms and republican values (in particular). The former defender of rights, Jacques Toubon, is worried about the identity temptations which…
demonstration of journalists against the decline of freedoms
In Tunisia, dozens of journalists demonstrated Thursday, May 5 in Tunis at the call of their union and other associations. Many denounce the regression of press freedom in the country,…
Israeli court gives green light for expulsion of around 1,000 Palestinians
In Masafer Yatta, in the south of the occupied West Bank, in the hills near Hebron, a dozen Palestinian villages and about a thousand people can be evicted at any…