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  • Protests against the Palestinian Authority

    First modification: 03/07/2022 – 19:18 On June 24, 2021, Palestinian activist Nizar Banat died after being beaten by members of the Palestinian security forces who came to arrest him at the family home… This political opponent, widely followed on social media, had harshly criticized the corruption plaguing the Palestinian Authority. What’s going on? A delivery…

  • Greece and the long wait for thousands seeking asylum

    First modification: 03/04/2022 – 18:18 Fereshta Azimi lived for a year and a half in the Moria refugee camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos… Before a major fire swept through it in September 2020, authorities transferred the young Afghan to Ioannina, western Greece. His asylum request, which dates back to 2020, remains unanswered… one…

  • Haiti: a hospital in gang hell

    First modification: 03/02/2022 – 22:25 In a country already deteriorated by violence, the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 has favored the strengthening of some criminal gangs and has encouraged the birth of dozens of armed groups in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and in other parts of the country. … The gangs took advantage…

  • The story Ludovic-Mohamed-Zahed, imam and gay activist

    First modification: 02/21/2022 – 15:56 Ludovic-Mohamed-Zahed is an exception in the Muslim world: this Franco-Algerian imam is openly gay. For the last ten years he has led a progressive and inclusive movement that promotes an open Islam that respects the rights of women and the LGBTIQ+ community, and interreligious dialogue. Ludovic-Mohamed-Zahed’s story is to say…

  • ‘Bus TV’, news at all costs in Venezuela

    First modification: 02/02/2022 – 19:04 In Venezuela, the vast majority of its citizens have been living in a deep economic crisis for several years: in addition to the shortage of food and basic services, there is hyperinflation, which has led to the government headed by Nicolás Maduro, a continuation of the Chavista regime, to remove…

  • Afghanistan: Fawzia Kooofi, a feminist in danger

    First modification: 01/27/2022 – 18:01 Fawzia Kooofi is the only leading woman of a political party in Afghanistan. In addition, she is the country’s first deputy, the only vice president of the National Assembly and participated in the peace negotiations with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar. The parliamentarian and Afghan activist Fawzia Kooofi, whose political…

  • The plight of Afghan refugees in Turkey

    First modification: 01/25/2022 – 17:06 About ten years ago, Turkey opened its doors to millions of Syrian immigrants fleeing the war. However, after the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan, the attitude towards the new flows of people seeking asylum seems to have changed… A concrete wall on the border, police raids in…