Tag: Womens rights
the examination of the law on the termination of pregnancy still moves away
The examination of the bill on the therapeutic interruption of pregnancy (ITG) by the National Assembly was once again withdrawn, Tuesday, May 17, from the agenda by the executive. The…
Nancy Huston, from continent to continent, from America to Africa
Born in Calgary, Canada, Nancy Huston, who now lives in Paris, is the author of numerous novels published by Actes Sud and Leméac, including “Instruments of Darkness” (1996; Goncourt Prize…
Should we distinguish the work of its author? with Gisele Sapiro and Vanessa Springora
Gisèle Sapiro is research director at the CNRS and director of studies at the EHESS, specialist in the commitment of intellectuals and the relationship between literature and politics. She is…
driving license restrictions for women in Herat
Restrictions on women in Afghanistan continue to fall. Banished from political life, from several professional sectors, deprived of college and high school, women are now deprived of driving licenses. A…
The Supreme Court of the United States would be ready to annul the right to abortion
According to the newspaper Politicowhich is based on an unprecedented leak of documents, the Supreme Court of the United States is preparing to annul the historic judgment of 1973 in…
Zineb Mekouar, back and forth between Morocco and France
Zineb Mekouar was born in 1991 in Casablanca, and has lived in Paris since 2009. She has just published her first novel under the title “The hen and its cumin»,…
a new rape complaint and damning testimonies
While the former star presenter of TF1 Patrick Poivre d’Arvor is the subject of a new complaint for an alleged rape 27 years ago, France 2 broadcasts this Thursday evening…
Gabon joins the global campaign for women’s rights “HeForShe”
Gabon has just joined the global campaign “HeForShe” (“Him for her”), a movement whose goal is to involve men and boys as key actors in the fight for gender equality…
Chika Unigwe, from Nigeria to Belgium, the women behind the window
Chika Unigwe was born in 1974 in Enugu, Nigeria, where she lived before continuing her studies in Belgium, and obtaining a doctorate in Literature. She now lives in the United…
sexual assaults at the Polytechnic school revealed by an internal investigation
The best engineering school in France is not immune to sexual assault. According to an internal survey, nearly one in four students say they have been the victim of at…