Tag: Human rights
Senior poverty in France: “An aggravating factor in social isolation”
Two million people over 60 live below the poverty line in France. According to the annual report of the association Les Petits Frères des Poors, 69% of poor seniors deprive…
Argentina condemns a soldier and a police officer in the “Puente 12” trial for crimes of the dictatorship
The Argentine courts delivered their verdict on Friday September 27 in the trial “ Bridge 12 “. Five former police officers and soldiers were on trial for illegal deprivation of…
Humanitarian crisis grossly underfunded, warns UN
In the DRC, the humanitarian crisis in the country remains underfunded three months before the end of the year, warns the United Nations. Needs have exploded while resources remain meager.…
In Madrid, a center for male victims of violence seen as a provocation
The announcement by the populist president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to create in the capital the first Comprehensive Centre for the Attention of Male Victims of…
Did the government violate international law on migrants?
A civil society organization is calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open an investigation into Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi. The NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans believes that a message…
Enlargement, a priority for the new European Commission?
5 min Eleven years after Croatia’s integration on July 1, 2013, theEuropean Union says it is ready to reopen its doors to the Western Balkan countries, pressured by the war…
“We are witnessing an intensification of state repression,” say UN experts
Systematic repression and crimes against humanity committed by the state apparatus. This is what a new UN report on the human rights situation in Venezuela points out, which has continued…
Two years after Mahsa Amini’s death, society is slowly changing
Two years after the death of Mahsa Amini, the young Iranian Kurd arrested by the morality police, and the protest movement that followed, Iranian society is experiencing a profound change.…
Hundreds of protesters in Paris in support of Iranian women
“Woman, Life, Freedom”: this slogan continues to carry the Iranian revolt. Two years ago, Kurdish student Mahsa Amini lost her life after being arrested by the morality police for wearing…
Two years after Mahsa Amini’s death, the impact of a “cultural revolution” still underway
On September 16, 2022, the announcement of the death of young Mahsa Jina Amini triggered a major protest movement against the regime in Iran. While the demonstrations were stifled by…