Ife – “love” in the Yoruba language – gives a powerful voice to the African LGBTQ+ community. The movie tells the story of a lesbian couple in Nigeria, one of the 30 countries on the continent where same-sex relationships are criminalized. Ife’s director, Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim, and producer, Pamela Adie, could […]
After several years of careful consideration, in September, Emmanuel Macron announced that as of July 2021, paternity leave would be doubled. Fathers will receive 28 days of paid paternity leave, an increase from 14, including same-sex couples. The decision reflects the European Commission’s ambitious decision last year that required […]
“The enemy of conventional wisdom is not ideas, but the march of events,” European Central Bank (E.C.B.) President Christine Lagarde said at the E.C.B. Zoom conference November 11th. Lagarde was quoting the late John Kenneth Galbraith, whose life was marked by two World Wars and countless economic crises. Nowadays, events […]
A century ago, an unknown warrior was buried under the Arc de Triomphe and another one within the walls of Westminster Abbey. A new tradition was born, destined to make the memory of each of the men who fell for their country in the First World War eternal; regardless of […]
The nightmarish vision that the beaches of Pelican Point in Central Namibia reveal seems unreal. More than 7,000 dead Cape fur seals were pushed ashore in Walvis Bay, near a well-known seal breeding colony and a school of dolphins. Naude Dreyer, a marine biologist from Ocean Conservation Namibia, has closely […]
The world teems with enough marvelous places where people from all social groups can prosper and live in peace together. What is preventing this dream to come true for so many citizens of different social classes? Amongst other reasons, it must be because of the ubiquitous unaffordability of social integration […]
On Friday, October 16th, 2020, a history teacher in the Paris region, Samuel Paty, was found by a municipal police crew in the middle of the street—lifeless and nefariously mutilated. His assailant, a 18-year-old man of Chechen origin, born in Moscow and living in Evreux, affirmed the terrorist dimension of […]
“Proud Boys, stand back and stand by” Donald Trump ordered the white supremacist all-men group, during the dispiriting presidential debate of September 30. When asked to condemn the rightwing militia, Trump, as is his custom, could only come up with this highly controversial line. This lead to a tremendous shiver […]
At first glance, the Vauxhall Cross building appears to lie idle in a gloomy London landscape. But this building’s top secret (but not-so-secret) function is to house the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), better known as MI6. A recent Financial Times interview with SIS Chief Sir Alexandre William Younger, whose coded […]
Everyone remembers the triumphal victory of the Ecuadorian Amazon Indigenous people in last year’s historic lawsuit of the Waorani Organization of Pastaza (CONCONAWEP) against several ministries of the Ecuadorian government who wanted to sell Waorani lands to oil companies. The passionate Nemonte Nenquimo, first female president of CONCONAWEP and co-founder […]
The fight for the stars, nowadays known as ‘the second space-race,’ began when Mars was first considered as a future home for humanity. Today, the detection of phosphine fingerprints in the atmosphere of Venus constitutes a powerful peace-agitator in the status quo of space exploration. Indeed, Earth’s evil twin could become […]
The people of Belarus appear determined to continue showing their disapproval of the early August presidential poll that credited incumbent ‘Europe’s last dictator’, Aleksander Lukashenko. Three weeks after the result, the crackdown is fierce. The Anti-Cockroach Revolution counts more than 7,000 arrests and 200 wounded, which alarms international peacemakers. This […]
