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Mohammed bin Salman called out about jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi

Last year Ensaf Haidar addressed Saudi Arabia at U.N human Rights Council regarding her husband, convicted on several charges in 2013 and sentenced to 1000 lashes and 10 years in prison for using his liberal blog to criticize Saudi Arabia’s clerics. On January, Haidar was in France and...

Ciné-Jam d’Edgar Sekloka : Hommage à la musique noire au MK2 Quai de Seine

Si vous habitez Paris ou la région parisienne (ou bien plus loin encore), ne manquez pas l’occasion de découvrir le Ciné-Jam d’Edgar Sekloka qui rend hommage à la musique noire au MK2 Quai de Seine à partir de la semaine prochaine. Edgar Sekloka propose de questionner la...

International Women’s Day 2018: ‘Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives’

Today is International Women’s Day, it started on February 28, 1909 in  New York, and it’s celebrated in many countries around the world. This special day is a global day celebrating women’s rights and womanhood, and the social, economic, cultural and political...

‘It would be a better world if women felt safe in public spaces’ – By Salma Belhassine, activist from Tunisia

Last week UN Women published a story in the ‘From where I stand…‘ editorial series about Salma Belhassine, a 21-year-old activist from Tunisia, part of the Youth Leadership Programme, an initiative by UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) in partnership with UN...

Sudan: Some critics freed, others remain in custody

The deteriorating economic conditions prompted protests in Sudan, starting last January. We posted an article on the situation a couple of weeks ago in: Sudan: Economic collapse accelerating and inflation rate at 128%… The reaction of Sudanese security forces has once again been very...

‘Outraged by the Attacks on Yazidis? It Is Time to Help’ – By Nadia Murad

Nadia Murad is a Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq, survivor of genocide and human trafficking. She is also Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations (UNODC), and author of ‘The Last Girl‘. Murad is one of the 5000 Yazidi...

RDC: Concessions reinstated and awarded to Chinese-owned logging companies

In an article (here) published last week by Global Witness about concessions reinstated and awarded to Chinese-owned logging companies, the organization quotes Irene Wabiwa Betoko, Greenpeace Africa Senior Campaign Manager. We are alarmed that the Minister of Environment has illegally...

Le film documentaire ‘Tunisie, les voix de la révolution’ : l’avant et l’après révolution

Nous vous en parlions il y a quelques jours dans cette news : le film documentaire ‘Tunisie, les voix de la révolution‘ de Marc Ball et Karim Miske, produit par #5Bis Productions et diffusé mardi dernier sur la chaine ARTE, nous plonge au coeur de l’histoire tunisienne...

Le documentaire ‘L’Ile de Lumière – Quand la France sauve les Boat-People’ ce soir sur France 2

Deux films documentaires de grande qualité seront proposés ce soir aux télespactateurs français : tout d’abord ‘Tunisie, les voix de la révolution‘ de Marc Ball et Karim Miske sera diffusé sur ARTE à 23h25 (nous y reviendrons plus en détail dans le courant de la...

Jailed Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega has been released!

We have been supporting Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega the last 5 years, and we called for his release several times. In this post from 2013: Free Ethiopian Journalist Eskinder Nega, we shared a video of Nega. A couple of months later, in a smuggled letter from prison,...