Updates (Stories / Events / Petition)

Sign the petition to support Noura Hussein on Change.org!

As we told you on Friday in this news, we sent a special Newsletter this weekend about Noura Hussein‘s story and we also shared the petition: Don’t execute Noura for self defense against the man who raped her! on Change.org. This petition will help spread the word about...

Noura Hussein sentenced to death by hanging: Support #JusticeforNoura!

Last week we published a news (read here) about the 19-year-old Noura Hussein Hamad who was found guilty of attempted murder after suffering marital rape. We were hoping she wouldn’t be sentenced to death but yesterday the Central Criminal Court of Omdurman in Sudan sentenced the...

‘Lessons and Challenges from the Genocide in Sudan’ by Eric Cohen (Act for Sudan)

Act for Sudan is an alliance of American citizen activists and Sudanese U.S. residents who advocate for an end to genocide and mass atrocities in Sudan. We often support their actions and join them in their advocacy, signing letters and sharing their news and reports. Act for Sudan’s...

La corruption au centre d’un Colloque international en Haïti

C’est sur le site LoopHaiti que nous avons lu cette news : l’Université Quisqueya et la 1804 Institute, une organisation basée aux États-Unis ont organisé les 3 et 4 mai 2018, un colloque international sur la corruption au Campus de l’Uniq. Le thème retenu était...

Journalistes tunisiens disparus en Libye : le SNJT annonce l’internationalisation de l’affaire

La semaine dernière se déroulait la Journée mondiale de la liberté de la presse et à cette occasion le collectif de défense de Sofien Chourabi et Nadhir Ktari annonce l’internationalisation de l’affaire, peut-on lire dans le HuffPost Tunisie. L’article indique : Le...

RSF Index 2018: Hatred of journalism threatens democracies

The 2018 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), reflects growing animosity towards journalists. Hostility towards the media, openly encouraged by political leaders, and the efforts of authoritarian regimes to export their vision of journalism pose a threat...

Marital rape victim Noura Hussein faces execution in Sudan

Yesterday we tweeted about Noura Hussein, a 19-year-old Sudanese woman who was found guilty of attempted murder after suffering marital rape. She was forced into the marriage by her own family at just 16 and the Central Criminal Court of Omdurman in Sudan, on 29 April, found her guilty of...

La Chaîne de l’Espoir lance un appel pour sauver la petite Sophea

En ce début du mois de mai, c’est du côté de l’association La Chaîne de l’Espoir dont nous vous parlons régulièrement, que nous allons. Ils ont en effet lancé le mois dernier un nouvel appel au don (en décembre nous vous avions parlé du jeune Keon) afin de venir...

Myanmar: RSF condemns illogical refusal to free Reuters reporters

Two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, have been detained in Myanmar since Dec. 12, 2017, and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the international community to step up the pressure on Myanmar. RSF wrote on their website: The two journalists are paying for the...

EU’s migration partnership with Sudan: Deals with the devil always unravel

This is not the first time we are denouncing the so-called ‘partnership’ between Europe and Sudan because it legitimizes Sudan’s militia state and it’s harming migrants and refugees. In October last year we published two articles, in French: La France et la...