Activities

Une émigration non choisie – Histoires de demandeurs d’asile du Darfour (Soudan) de Marie-José Tubiana

Nous vous suggérons régulièrement des ouvrages dont nous pensons qu’ils méritent votre attention. Certains d’entre eux font aussi l’objet de Discussions en ligne que nous vous proposons une fois par mois, et c’est le cas de celui que nous vous invitons à...

Chemical weapons used in Darfur: Organizations around the world join forces

In a report released last month, Amnesty International has documented the use of suspected chemical weapons by Sudanese government forces against civilians, including very young children, in Jebel Marra, one of the most remote regions of Darfur over the past eight months. Between 200 and...

Jailed Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab awaits his trial

 As you already know if you follow our actions, we support freedom of speech and we have been actively supporting imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi (and his family and wife Ensaf Haidar). More than three years ago we posted a tweet asking our followers to sign the petition by Amnesty...

The Heart of Nuba, a movie on the inspiring story of Dr. Tom Catena

As you may already know if you read our Newsletter, we are supporting The Heart of Nuba, an incredible movie by Kenneth Carlson and a few days ago we had a screening with Max Dana and Members. As usual, it was followed by a discussion. Yesterday @MaxDana & Members of the MagkaSama...

Raif Badawi: A day of action for the Saudi Arabian blogger

Writer, activist and creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals Raif Badawi was arrested four years ago, and yesterday was a day of action for the Saudi Arabian blogger. Events were planned in Canada but also in Europe, in London and Oslo. There is a weekly London Protest protest outside...

Raif Badawi: Meeting with Ensaf Haidar at Amnesty France for the release of her book

Yesterday we were at Amnesty International France headquarters in Paris to meet with Ensaf Haidar, the wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi who was sentenced in 2014 to 10 years behind bars, 1,000 lashes, a 10-year travel ban, and a lifetime ban from appearing in the media....

Le film ‘L’homme qui répare les femmes – la colère d’Hippocrate’ sort en France

Sorti l’année dernière aux Pays-Bas, le film de Thierry Michel et Colette Braeckman ‘L’homme qui répare les femmes – la colère d’Hippocrate‘ qui nous présente l’incroyable travail du Docteur Denis Mukwege à l’hopital de Panzi au Congo,...

Breaking The Silence: Congo Week, October 20 – 26, 2013

We announced it in our latest Newsletter, Congo Week started yesterday. Breaking the Silence Congo Week  website explains the purpose of the event is to raise global consciousness about the situation in the Congo and advocate for peace, justice and human dignity in partnership with the...

The MagkaSama Project will be back mid-September!

We will be taking a brief hiatus (a couple of weeks) so we won’t post new content posted until the middle of September. In the meantime, check out the archives, browse our site, there is plenty to read while we are away. We won’t be far anyway, we will post if there is any...

Mandela Day: Join us and donate 67 minutes of your day to doing something good

Mandela Day is a Sama Day on the MagkaSama Project: each year, we celebrate it. This year we want you to join us and Take Action; Inspire Change; Make Every Day a Mandela Day. As announced in our weekly Newsletter last Sunday, today we are going to organize with some members of the Sama...