Tag: Social issues
in Edinburgh, no more garbage collection due to strikes
The Summer of Rage continues in the UK. In many sectors of the economy, employees are mobilizing to demand increases, while inflation exceeds 10%. In the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, in…
Emmanuel Macron, the government and the “end of abundance”: “They are clumsy”
Introducing the Council of Ministers, Wednesday August 24 at the Élysée, the French president underlined the seriousness of the challenges of the start of the school year by calling on…
farmers hit hard by the drought this summer 2022
Drought, heat wave, the year of all climatic records hit French farmers hard. With our special correspondent in La Roche-sur-Yon, Matthew Bonhoure Many French peasants gathered in Saint-Georges-de-Pointindoux for the…
after the lifting of the state of emergency, the hope of a way out of the economic crisis
The state of emergency has been lifted since Thursday morning in Sri Lanka after months of demonstrations for the departure of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. In the country, the economic situation…
ten years after Marikana, conscience and dignity at the scene of the tragedy
South Africa commemorated, this Tuesday, August 16, the tenth anniversary of the Marikana massacre. In this mining region, northwest of Johannesburg, in 2012, a demonstration by miners ended in a…
one year later, where is disaster assistance?
A year ago, the southern half of Haiti was hit by a powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.2. If the earthquake was felt everywhere across the island, the major damage was…
40 years of the decriminalization of homosexuality: “There was widespread ostracism”
August 4, 1982 marks the end of repressive legislation against homosexuals in France. Indeed, just 40 years ago a law repealed a discrimination introduced into the penal code by the…
Ingrid Dordain, the struggles of a mother to raise awareness of autism
Invested in associations, a specialized educator, and now engaged in politics, Ingrid Dordain leads several lives at the same time. La Française fights for “different” children to be part of…
the Assembly votes the deconjugalization of the AAH, the beneficiaries relieved
The French National Assembly voted overnight from Wednesday to Thursday the deconjugalization of the disabled adult allowance (AAH), a flagship measure of the purchasing power bill, after several refusals from…
Congo-B wants to raise the retirement age to 65, the population is divided
The government of Congo-Brazzaville approved, during its last council of ministers last week, its bill raising the retirement age from 60 to 65 for civil servants. But the measure is…