Donald Trump managed to get everyone against him after the summit in Helsinki on July 16, with Vladimir Putin. A flood of negative comments even from Fox News which usually supports the President. Whether it is the media, the American people, democrats, republicans, everyone is in shock following the surrealist press conference between Trump and Putin. Trump has just collaborated with Russia, in front of everyone. He refused to condemn Moscow for its interference during the U.S. presidential elections and is therefore accused of supporting the “enemy” against U.S. intelligence. Let’s remember that in December 2016, the U.S. government accused the Russian government of interfering with the presidential elections leading to the Russiagate affair and made the most important diplomatic reprisals against Russia since the Cold War. It started in September 2016, when Tim Kaine claimed that Donald Trump encouraged Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails. Two days later, Hilary declared that Trump encouraged Moscow to spy on her. In December 2016, Obama claimed that Russian cyber-activists intended to influence the presidential election. Then, the FBI published an informal note on “malicious Russian cyber-activities". In March 2017, Comey revealed that the FBI was investigating. In May 2017, Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey. This has provoked a major controversy in the U.S. and raised questions about Trump's relations with the Russians. According to sources from the White House, a report was prepared for Trump, very detailed, asking him to stick to a narrow position. However, it seems like he didn’t listen. By doing so, a new world order has been created. Trump’s admiration for authoritarian presidents is influencing his decision making and the entire world and alliances system. 🇺🇸🇷🇺
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Today, we are remembering Nelson Mandela. July 18, 2018 marks the centenary of his birth. Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 into a cultured and influential family. He went to law school. Because he was very much aware of racial segregation against black people in South Africa, he joined the African National Congress (ANC). Very quickly, he became one of the main leaders. When the government banned ANC, Mandela continued his fight against segregation. In 1962, he was arrested and in 1964 sentenced to life imprisonment. His incarceration didn’t change his popularity.
Upon his release, he became president of ANC. To honor Nelson Mandela’s efforts to end apartheid, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. The next year, he became the first black president of South Africa. After one presidential term, Nelson Mandela withdraws from politics. During the 2000s, he committed himself to the fight against poverty and AIDS, a real scourge, long neglected in South Africa. Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013 at the age of 95, he will always be remembered as a hero of the anti-apartheid struggle. 🇿🇦 (Archive of Nelson Mandela with Abdelkader Benslimane) .
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#SOSNicaragua: Nearly 300 Deaths After 3 Months of Contestation and Violence 🇳🇮 The International Community, including the United States and the UN are strongly condemning violence of Nicaraguan paramilitaries against students, journalists and clergy. Everyday, people are being killed by Nicaraguan police and paramilitary forces. Nicaragua is the poorest country in Central America and the violence has reached its peak in three months. Nearly 300 dead and 2000 wounded. This is the bloodiest unrest in Nicaragua since the civil war, which ended in 1990. Antonio Guterres was in San José, Costa Rica alongside President Carlos Alvarado. UN Secretary General stated that "It's absolutely essential that the violence ceases immediately because the only acceptable solution in Nicaragua is a political one.” Heavily armed and masked, paramilitaries and government men, supported by snipers, provoke scenes of panic by bursting into towns and villages to dismantle the barricades of protesters. Masaya, the most rebel city in the country, about 30 kilometers south of the capital, has become the epicenter of violence. The protest movement against Daniel Ortega's government, whose students are spearheading, started on April 18th. The protesters initially denounced its intention to reduce pensions to fill the Social Security deficit. The movement has since turned into a challenge to the power in place after several deaths. The 72-year-old head of state since 2007 after having already led the country from 1979 to 1990, is accused of having harshly repressed demonstrations and set up with his wife, Rosario Murillo, who occupies Vice President. A "dictatorship" marked by corruption and nepotism. His opponents demand early elections or his departure. (Picture of funerals following 10 shot dead by the police and paramilitary forces in Masaya on July 16, 2018). .
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France won the 2018 World Cup so did Africa. Composed of many players with African roots, the team of France was massively supported by people from our continent, who are also celebrating the world champion title. A total of 10 African countries are represented in the French team: Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Togo, Senegal. This is a great example of how migration/immigration can be such an amazing asset for a country. This is also a great example of how our ex-colonizers always take what they like most. When it comes to our resources or exploits, then they love us. But once we step foot in their land, not so much. Islamophobia, racism or xenophobia, those are common towards African people in France, Europe, many Western countries. First they exploit us, impose their culture, language, but the relationship is nothing reciprocal. I hope that this will help changing the mentality, even for a tiny bit. ⚽️🏆
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Today, Malala Yousafzai is turning 21! She has launched her Instagram page @malala. She is one of my main inspirations, at such a young age she already accomplished so much. Malala is smart, sweet, devoted, strong and nothing can stop her. I wish her all the best and especially to continue her brilliant fight for a better and more equal world. We need more Malalas! 🙌🏽📚❣️
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Frida Kahlo is one of the greatest figures of Mexican art of the 20th century. Author of several hundred paintings, including many self-portraits, she is famous for her realistic paintings, which are a reflection of her passions and her suffering, but also of Mexico. Frida Kahlo had a brief life. She was born in Mexico in 1907 and died there in 1954. An extraordinary life, which illuminated her country, her job, her condition and her femininity. Life begins well for Frida but life turns badly at 10 years old when she contracted polio. Her right foot didn’t grow more. Another disaster hit her six years later, in 1925. A bus accident where Frida survived but got severely injured, with 11 fractures. Being severely disabled didn’t stop her from dominating her broken body. She started painting herself, with a mustache, by provocation, by nonconformity, by feminism.
In 1928, having almost recovered all her mobility, Frida Khalo enrolled in the Communist Party. That same year, she met the famous painter Diego Rivera and showed him some of her paintings. It's the beginning of a tumultuous love story. In 1929, they married and settled the following year in San Francisco, where Frida met many artists. Unfortunately, she suffered two miscarriages in 1930 and 1932. She painted "Henry Ford Hospital" during her convalescence and wished to return to Mexico. In 1938, Frida Khalo met André Breton in Mexico City. Thanks to him, that same year, she was able to exhibit her works in New York. She sold many paintings. In 1953, the first exhibition of her work is organized in Mexico City. During the summer, she had to amputate her right leg. She died in 1954 at age 47 and left many important works. Frida believed that even though she was damaged, she was beautiful. Her “destroyed” body didn’t stop her from anything. At that time, there was even more machismo, but it didn’t stop her from being a feminist, from being devoted to art. Corseted, operated several times, amputated, she painted while lying on her back. On her last painting, she wrote “Viva la Vida”. 🎨
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Maedeh Hojabri is a 18-year-old young Iranian woman. She was arrested for posting videos on Instagram, dancing while not wearing the veil. Her “forced” confessions on national news caused a wave of indignation on the Web. Since then, she has her own hashtag and many Iranian citizens, sometimes journalists and political activists, have released their dance clip in support of Maedeh Hojabri #Beraghs_ta_beraghsim
The Iranian cyberpolice (FATA) had announced a month earlier the arrest of some Iranians who are accused of publishing "immoral content" on Instagram. Last week, a TV channel aired a thirty-minute program entitled "The Documentary of the Bad Road", which showed three girls and a boy confessing to have published images of their dances or parties, “undermining Islamic morality.” In the Islamic Republic of Iran, women must cover their entire body except their face and hands. In the public space, the police of the mores ensures the respect of the dress codes, and the outlaws, both men and women are sometimes arrested and taken to the police station, where they must ask their relatives to bring them clothes “decent clothes” before being released.
As a Muslim, I feel extremely sad for the Iranian people who are still not free, especially women. Many people think that the veil is a religious thing while it is much more cultural. Wearing the veil has to be a choice and I totally respect those who wear it. However, forcing women to cover their bodies and hair, is to me, not ethical. Women should be free to wear whatever they feel like. Justifying these laws on religion is even worse. So I support Maedeh Hojabri and all Iranian people transgressing laws to free themselves. Free yourself, dance, sing, do whatever makes you happy! 🇮🇷⛔️
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The Argentinian fight for abortion is encouraging feminists all over Latin America. A project legalizing abortion is to be considered by the Senate. Abortion is still illegal in most countries in Latin American and the Caribbean. On August 8, the Senate will have to decide on the bill decriminalizing and legalizing abortion, already approved on June 14 by the Chamber of Deputies. A lot of emotion in Buenos Aires, but also in the rest of the continent, where feminists took over social media platforms with many messages of solidarity: "If Argentina can, Venezuela too". 🇦🇷🙏
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Already indicted for rape and sexual assault by the Attorney General of New York, former producer Harvey Weinstein now faces a life sentence. Since a third sexual assault victim joined the original complaint, the grand jury of Manhattan chose to sue Harvey Weinstein on the charge of predatory sexual assault. This charge is one of the most serious in the Penal Code. To be found guilty of predatory sexual assault, the Penal Code provides two conditions: to have committed rape, aggravated sexual abuse or premeditated sexual crime; or to have committed a sexual crime against more than one person, or previously convicted of an offense sexual abuse, incest or pedophilia. If convicted of predatory sexual assault, Weinstein faces life imprisonment. If he is found guilty of the third sexual assault complaint against him, he faces an additional 10 years in prison. 🏛👩⚖️👨⚖️
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With everything happening right now, and some claiming that refugees and migrants are criminals because they are crossing borders illegally, we need compassion and empathy more than ever. Before judging these vulnerable individuals for their actions, one should try to understand what pushed them to risk their lives and their children’s. They have nothing left in their country, no hope. Whether it is war, persecution, natural disasters, they lost everything. Their only hope relies upon reaching the land of opportunities, the Eldorado, where everything becomes possible. Taking that drop of hope coming from an ocean of devastation is inhuman. They deserve better. 👨👩👧👦🛶🆘
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A refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. Meaning they had no choice but to leave. To be granted refugee status, the applicant has to demonstrate “well founded fear”. Refugee status is related to the protection of human rights as once an applicant is granted refugee status s/he enjoys basic human rights. In the 1951 Convention, the preamble reaffirms principles of International Human Rights law, therefore connecting it to refugee protection and status. As a matter of fact, International Human Rights law applies to all people in a State (citizens or not) and is central to the concept of international protection and asylum as refugees seek safety from Human Rights violations.
Nowadays, we are witnessing the biggest refugee crisis after World War II. Therefore, the understanding of the definition of refugee is primordial to face this crisis. Wars, violence, and persecution drove worldwide forced displacement to a new high in 2017. There were 16.2 million new depilated people in 2017. That means 44,400 each day, 1 every 2 seconds. We have witnessed the biggest increase in a single year. Most refugees live in developing countries. It is likely that the numbers will continue to grow. More than 6 million refugees are coming from Syria, around 2.6 million from Afghanistan and 2.4 million from South Sudan. Adding to this, new disputes erupting in 2017 contributed to new displacements, including Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Venezuela. Refugees are extremely vulnerable human beings and need special help and care.
Today is not a happy day. Today we are remembering the 68.5 million people in the world that were forced to leave their home. .
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Innocent children between the ages of 2 and 10 are being separated from their families in the U.S. borders. They are immigrants, they are undocumented, but most of all they are vulnerable. These families are fleeing persecution, violence, turmoil. They no longer have a sense of home and are reaching out for help. Children are crying, calling for their parents in a recording published by the media. About 2000 children are currently being held in closed detention centers while their parents are imprisoned, waiting for their trial. Today, crossing illegally the borders makes you a criminal, apparently more than being a rapist as many remain free. These separations are the consequence of the “zero tolerance” policy adopted since April by the Minister of Justice. Children are detained in cages. This is 2018, this is America. What happened to humanity? This is heartbreaking, upsetting, dehumanizing. 💔
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It’s all about positive energy. I love being surrounded by smart, successful and interesting people. I love talking about ideas, visions but also current issues, about everything that is pretty messed up in our world today. If someone else cares about gender equality, migration, or human rights to name a few, as much as I do, I’m thrilled and could talk for hours. It also gives me hope for our future. No time for negativity and no time to talk about other people. 💟🔁🙅🏽
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On June 13, USA - Canada - Mexico trio was appointed by FIFA to host the World Cup of 2026. Delegates from FIFA member countries had to choose between the imposing candidacy of the North American trio and that of Morocco. The trio has now eight years to prepare for organizing the first World Cup to 48 teams. A choice at the expense of Morocco which did not have the favor of the 203 voting members of FIFA, gathered in Moscow’s Congress. The trio United States - Canada - Mexico won 134 votes out of 203 voters. Morocco has already been an unhappy candidate four times (1994, 1998, 2006 and 2010). The Kingdom believed until the end in its chances of becoming the second country on the African continent, after South Africa in 2010, to host one of the most important events on the planet. Morocco had the support of many European countries (France) and African countries. It relied on other assets to make a difference, other than purely financial such as the passion and fervor around football in the country or again the strategic geographic location. ⚽️🏆
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On June 12, a page of History was written in Singapore. Kim Jong-un and Donal Trump walked towards each other before shaking hands for a long time. The two Heads of States shook hands with a background covered of North Korean and U.S. flags. While they were exchanging insults less than a year ago, the U.S. president even evoked the hypothesis of North Korea total destruction in case of aggression against the U.S. or even one of its allies, this is a first. This is the first time leaders from both countries meet to pursue negotiations after a very tense climax for several decades. The meeting was held between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump for 40 minutes, only with interpreters present. This event is just the first stage of what would probably be complicated negotiations. We hope that it will determine the future of nuclear weapons and make an end to an everlasting threat, from both sides. 🇺🇸🇰🇵
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