Category: Europe
The French Diabetic Federation is launching an online petition on Monday (January 9th) so that diabetics “can choose the jobs of their dreams”. On its web page the Federation explains that diabetics are still prohibited from practicing certain trades: “Today, if you have diabetes, you cannot be a mining engineer, sailor, policeman, Air, SNCF Controller, […]
At least 25 people were killed on Sunday (11th December) in a bomb attack inside a Coptic-Orthodox church adjacent to St. Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo. The Metropolitan of the Coptic Orthodox Church in France strongly reacted to the attack in Cairo. The Metropolitan of the Coptic Orthodox Church of France spoke in very strong terms […]
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations human rights conventions, the Human Rights Agency (HRA) participated in an international conference organized at the Faculty of Law in the Lisbonne University By the Portuguese Association of Democratic Lawyers (APJD) and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (AIJD).
The police gathered Friday in several cities of France, for the fifth consecutive time, to tell their being fed up with the assault on four of their Viry-Châtillon after thirteen days. A fifth night of mobilization. Shortly after 21:30 on Friday, police gathered in small groups in the rain in front of the Notre Dame […]
Britain will ensure that its military could be exempt from European humanitarian law to avoid prosecution it considers abusive following external operations, said Tuesday the First Minister Theresa May. The project will allow the military to not be subject to the European Convention on Human Rights when participating in conflicts abroad, depending on the circumstances. […]
70% of cases of violations of human rights in Ukraine are committed by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) and the police. Impunity for violations of human rights undermines efforts to establish the rule of lawin the country and causes distrust of the authorities. According to Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner of the UN for Human […]
Average student in the 2000, France now ranks very end of the charts for the inequalities in schools within the OECD, according to the National Assessment Council of the school system (Cnesco) in a study released Tuesday 27th September. This unprecedented survey conducted over two years by 22 teams of French and foreign researchers, poses […]
“Beauty has no age, fertility if,” “Think you, do not expect the stork”, “Being young parent, the best way to be creative” … Here are the slogans of a campaign launched by the Italian government. This caused a storm on social networks with a campaign calling on the Italian couples to have children, to compensate […]
A Syrian asylum seeker 27 years blew himself up, Sunday, July 24 to 22 hours, close to a music festival in Ansbach, Bavaria (Germany). The explosion, which occurred outside a restaurant, did not kill anyone other than its author. however, Twelve people were injured, three seriously. The Syrian, who lived in Ansbach, arrived in Germany […]
A shooting broke out in a shopping center near the Olympic stadium in Munich (southern Germany), police said. “We have now a major police operation in a mall”, also said on his Twitter account the Munich police, without specifying the cause. Gunshots were reported in the late afternoon in the mall in Bavaria. According to […]
