Human Rights

News Digest (Aug. 11, 2018): Harriett Baldwin in Darfur, Slavery and torture, Adolphe Muzito, This Is Congo…

This is our second Weekly News Digest of August, it is a selected compilation of recent stories we publish each Saturday during Summertime. Today: British Minister of State for Africa, Harriett Baldwin in North Darfur; Female activists in Sudan; Germany, Sudan sign for refugee projects;...

Take Action; Inspire Change; Make Every Day a Mandela Day!

Mandela Day, celebrated on July 18, is an annual international day adopted by the United Nations. People around the world are celebrating Nelson Mandela as he should have turned 100. Remember these wrods by Nelson Mandela on this special day: ‘A good head and a good heart are always...

#WorldRefugeeDay: Show support for families forced to flee!

In June 2016, the UN Refugee Agency launched the #WithRefugees petition to send a message to governments that they must work together and do their fair share for refugees. Everyday we read on the news sad, awful stories about refugees and migrants (read our news on this topic) living hell...

Nabeel Rajab named an honorary citizen of the city of Paris

Jailed Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab was named an honorary citizen of the city of Paris a few days ago. We have already posted and tweeted about Rajab several times, a leading figure in pro-democracy protests that swept Bahrain in 2011. He is in jail for tweets condemning the use of...

Les migrants de l’Aquarius persona non grata en Italie

Nous évoquons régulièrement la situation des nombreux migrants qui quittent leur pays et prennent tous les risques pour rejoindre l’Europe, comme nous vous en parlions dans ces dernières news. Alors que les pays européens peinent à trouver des solutions et que les prises de...

Honoring Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after his death

In 2013 we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington and we had a great online discussion on this occasion. Today marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King‘s assassination, commemoration events are taking place across the United States, and organizers expect...

‘Guantánamo Kid’ : rencontres avec les auteurs et une collecte de fonds

Le mois dernier nous vous avons présenté la bande-dessinée ‘Guantánamo Kid, l’histoire de vraie de Mohammed El-Gorani’ de Jérôme Tubiana, réalisée avec le dessinateur Alexandre Franc avec le soutien d’Amnesty International, et sortie le mois dernier chez Dargaud. Nous vous...

La bande-dessinée ‘Guantánamo Kid, l’histoire de vraie de Mohammed El-Gorani’ de Jérôme Tubiana

Jérôme Tubiana est journaliste et chercheur indépendant, spécialiste du Soudan et du Tchad, que nous évoquons régulièrement sur le MagkaSama Project. Il était notre invité du panel d’experts lors de la soirée que nous avons organisée en décembre 2016 pour la première...

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...

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...