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Ezen az estén Dr. Garai Cintia főemlőskutató, természetvédő és természetfilmes mesélt kongói élményeiről, többek között a bonobók kutatásáról

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Le dossier des structures illégales de placement d'argent refait surface. La Cour de répression des infractions économiques et du terrorisme (CRIET) s'est saisie dudit dossier. A l'audience du 17 décembre prochain, apprend-on, cette juridiction nouvellement créée va se prononcer sur cette rocambolesque affaire de placement d'argent qui a fait perdre à de nombreux citoyens leurs épargnes.
Après les nombreuses promesses du gouvernement défunt pour dédommager les victimes, une lueur d'espoir s'offre à présent pour eux sous le régime du Nouveau Départ.
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Quatre candidats PDC et PLR se disputent mercredi les deux sièges laissés vacants par la PDC Doris Leuthard et le PLR Johann Schneider-Ammann. Explications.

Hungary's Central European University, founded by George Soros, said on Monday  (3 December) it has been forced out of the country in "an arbitrary eviction" that violated academic freedom, and confirmed plans to enrol new students in neighbouring Austria next year.

The ongoing investigation into Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s possible conflict of interest damages the Czech Republic and harms the EU as well, MEP Ingeborg Grässle said, revealing that the inquest has almost drawn to a conclusion. EURACTIV.cz's media partner Aktuálně.cz reports.

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The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) presented a report titled ‘Two schools under one roof’: The Most Visible Example of Discrimination in Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 3 December 2018 in Sarajevo.

This report addresses the practice of ‘two schools under one roof’ as the most visible manifestation of discrimination in the education system of the country and includes recommendations to advance the vision of a peaceful, stable and multi-ethnic BiH.

“This report outlines several practical steps that can be taken toward ending discrimination and segregation in education,” said Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Bruce G. Berton.  “Steps involve political dialogue, increased interaction between children, comprehensive implementation of the Common Core Curriculum based on Student Learning Outcomes, respect for court decisions and legal and administrative unification of schools, which we see as a positive start toward ending ‘two schools under one roof’. These steps require only the commitment of BiH’s elected leaders.”

Today, ‘two schools under one roof’ persists in 56 schools in BiH. These include primary schools and secondary schools, both branch schools and central schools. They vary in specific characteristics, size and location.

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina will continue to advocate with authorities at the highest level for respect for human rights, including the right to an education free from all forms of discrimination, in line with OSCE commitments.

Reports in official languages of BiH and English are available for download at: https://www.osce.org/mission-to-bosnia-and-herzegovina/404990

Gute Nachrichten für den Online-Weihnachtseinkauf: Geoblocking ist mit dem Inkrafttreten der entsprechenden EU-Verodnung nunmehr illegal.

A Cameroonian government minister says Caf's decision to withdraw the country from staging next year's Nations Cup is 'unfair.'

Ignazio Cassis a dû répondre lundi à des questions des parlementaires sur le report de la signature par la Suisse du pacte des migrations de l'ONU.

Kiss Kamilla és Könczöl Zsófi, a Magyar Afrika Társaság "Knowledge for the Village" pilot projektjének résztvevői elstartoltak,

Over the next few weeks, Zagreb will become a centre for pre-Christmas festivities, drawing locals from of all parts of Croatia and foreign tourists alike to its famous Christmas Market.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Written by Ingeborg Odink and Rosamund Shreeves, 

According to the UN, an estimated one in five women worldwide live with disabilities and the prevalence of disability is actually higher among women than men (19.2 versus 12 %). Women and girls with disabilities are also among the most vulnerable and marginalised, because of the multiple and intersecting discriminations they face based on their gender, age, disability and other factors, as the UN rightly and alarmingly pointed out in its 2017 Resolution on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

As we celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December, one cannot but conclude that for women and girls with disabilities in Europe full inclusion is also still a distant aspiration. Political awareness, however, is rising, and initiatives are being taken to empower these particularly vulnerable women and girls and protect their rights to enable them to fully and equally participate in society.

The prevalence of disability in the EU is higher among women than men. Women are the majority (54 %) of people with disabilities and are more likely than men to report a basic activity difficulty (15.1 % versus 12.9 %) or a disability (14 % versus 11.7 %). Considering the increase in the number of elderly people and longer female life expectancy, this number is expected to increase.

Legal and policy framework

Under the 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), often described as the ‘international bill of rights for women’, and the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which sets out a worldwide agenda for women’s empowerment, all EU Member States are committed to upholding and protecting women’s rights and eliminating the additional barriers some women, e.g. women with disabilities, face in achieving full equality and advancement. The EU itself is not party to CEDAW, but gender equality, non-discrimination and protection of human rights are established general principles of the EU.

The 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is the first human rights convention to which the EU has become a party, and is the first international legally binding instrument setting minimum standards for rights for people with disabilities. The CRPD not only introduces a human rights based approach in disability policies (moving away from medical and charity models), it also explicitly recognises discrimination on the ground of gender and disability (Article 6) and calls on State Parties to take measures ensuring women with disabilities full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms. The Optional Protocol to the CRPD allows for submission of complaints to the CRPD Committee by individuals and groups of individuals, or by a third party on behalf of individuals and groups of individuals, alleging that their rights have been violated under the CRPD. For the EU, the CRPD Convention entered into force on 22 January 2011. In addition, all the EU countries have signed and ratified the Convention, and 22 EU countries have also signed and ratified its Optional Protocol.

The international community’s commitment to advancing the human rights of women with disabilities was also strengthened with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (A/RES 70/1), which pledges to ‘leave no one behind’. While not explicitly mentioned under Goal 5, ‘Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’, women with disabilities are included in target 5.1, ‘End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere’.

The European disability strategy 2010-2020 (ESD) is a key tool to fulfilling the EU commitments under the CRPD, the CEDAW and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The strategy entails actions in eight priority areas (accessibility, participation, equality, employment, education and training, social protection, health, external action) for the active inclusion and full participation of disabled people in society. However, the European Parliament and women’s rights organisations have criticised the lack of a gender perspective in the EDS, and that, despite progress in some areas, much more still needs to be done to improve the situation of both men and, especially, women with disabilities in the EU.

The 2017 EIGE Gender Equality Index (GEI) shows that women with disabilities in the EU score lower when it comes to access to the labour market, earnings and education level. Women with disabilities have a particularly low employment participation, with a FTE employment rate of only 19 %, compared to 28 % for men with disabilities, and the gender pay gap is similar to those who do not have disabilities. People with disabilities also face a higher risk of poverty and social exclusion than the general population. Here too, the poverty rate is slightly higher for women with disabilities compared to men with disabilities.

No less worrying is that women with disabilities indicate a higher prevalence of various forms of violence (see FRA 2014 EU-wide prevalence survey on violence against women). The biggest differences are found in terms of physical or sexual partner violence: 34 % of women with a health problem or disability have experienced this during a relationship, compared with 19 % of women who do not have a health problem or disability. Women with disabilities are also often denied equal sexual and reproductive rights. At the beginning of this year, the European Disability Forum (EDF) and CERMI Women’s Foundation released a comprehensive report denouncing the practice of forced sterilisation, which, under certain circumstances, is still carried out in some EU countries on women with (intellectual and psychosocial) disabilities.

EU accession to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) in this context is an important step towards better protection of these rights. It is the first instrument in Europe to set legally binding standards to prevent gender-based violence, protect victims of violence and punish perpetrators, defining and criminalising various forms of violence against women, including physical, sexual, and psychological violence, stalking, sexual harassment, female genital mutilation, forced marriage, forced abortion and forced sterilisation

Action taken by the European Parliament

• The European Parliament has a cross-party Disability Intergroup, whose 188 members actively work on promoting disability policy and advancing the rights of persons with disabilities in their work at the European Parliament as well as at the national level.
• As a guardian of human rights, Parliament consistently raises gender and disability issues. In its resolution of 29 November 2018 on the situation of women with disabilities, it reiterated its call for gender and disability mainstreaming in the gender equality and disability strategies and all other strategies, policies and programmes of the EU and its member states, and called for concrete measures, in different areas, including positive measures, to protect the rights of women and girls with disabilities.
• The European Parliament has also consistently taken a strong stance on the issue of violence against women, including women with disabilities, and has repeatedly called for EU accession to the Istanbul Convention (the EU signed the Convention in June 2017) and for its ratification by individual Member States.

For further reading: On equality

• The European Disability Strategy 2010-2020, EPRS briefing, July 2017
• Discrimination and access to employment for female workers with disabilities, IPOL study, August 2017
• Violence against women in the EU: State of play, EPRS briefing, November 2018
• The Istanbul Convention: A tool to tackle violence against women and girls, EPRS at a glance, November 2018
• EIGE Fact sheet on gender and disability, 2018

On inclusiveness and technology

• 3D bio-printing for medical and enhancement purposes, EPRS In-depth study, July 2018
• What if technology helped society become more inclusive?, EPRS at a glance, June 2017

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The French transposition of the European directive on trade secrets has hindered access to certain documents required for the “Implant Files” investigation. EURACTIV France reports.

WARSAW, 3 December 2018 ─ On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), called on participating States to take measures to further ensure that electoral processes and information are accessible to persons with disabilities.

“Across the OSCE region, persons with disabilities face various obstacles to exercising their right to vote and be elected. This includes restrictions on legal capacity, inaccessible polling stations and electoral information, as well as limited support and lack of knowledge among electoral officials,” said Ingibjörg Gísladóttir. “OSCE participating States should increase their efforts to make electoral rights available to persons with different kinds of disabilities on an equal basis with others, in line with OSCE commitments and other international obligations and standards.”

The right to vote and stand as a candidate in elections is a fundamental right that should be protected for all, including persons with disabilities, without discrimination. Equal and effective participation in elections, as voters, candidates and election officials, is a prerequisite to guaranteeing that persons with disabilities are participating in political and public life, and are contributing their experiences, views and opinions to decision-making processes.   

Through awareness-raising activities and positive practice exchange, the Office encourages political parties, parliaments, public officials and civil society to recognize the prevailing invisibility of persons with disabilities in public life and to take steps in becoming more inclusive and representative. Using the methodology outlined in the Handbook on Observing and Promoting the Electoral Participation of Persons with Disabilities, ODIHR election observers identify the legal and practical barriers that obstruct inclusion. They also monitor the extent to which persons with disabilities are actively participating in elections as voters, candidates and election officials, and recommend improvements.

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Le début de l'Avent a été très humide. Il a en effet plu deux fois plus en 48 heures que durant tout le mois de novembre. Quant à la neige, elle arrivera peut-être le week-end prochain.

People of African descent born in Europe face systemic racism in the EU, stated a report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. Moreover, European institutions are struggling to lead by example. EURACTIV France reports.

Sous le slogan «l’Ame des Andes», Leo Rojas animera, à partir de demain, trois soirées consécutives à l’Opéra d’Alger Boualem- Bessaïh.
L’histoire de l’artiste amérindien ressemble à un conte merveilleux. Juan Leonardo Santillia Rojas, né le 18 octobre1984 à Otavolo, est un joueur de flûte de Pan originaire de l’Equateur. En l’an 2000, Leo Rojas traverse l’Atlantique et s’installe en Europe, plus précisément en Espagne. De l’Espagne, il se rend à plusieurs reprises en Allemagne avec un visa touristique. Un peu plus tard, il vit avec sa femme polonaise à Berlin, où il gagne de l’argent comme artiste de rue. Un jour, un passant, impressionné par son talent, l’informe de l’existence de l’émission de télévision allemande «Das Supertalent» dont l’objectif, comme son nom le laisse deviner, est la découverte des talents. Il participe à la cinquième saison en 2011.

Avec une magnifique interprétation de El Condor Pasa, il arrive à se qualifier aux demi-finales. Il organisa alors une réunion de chanteur d’Equateur, pour faire un spectacle impressionnant. Pour la finale, le 17 décembre 2011, Rojas a joué l’instrumental de The Lonely Sheperd, écrit par James Last. Le Sud-Américain remporte la compétition haut la main. Sa chanson gagnante est sortie après le concours et devient un succès des ventes allemandes durant la semaine de Noël. Le 27 janvier 2012, il sort son premier album constitué de pièces instrumentales connues, intitulé Spirit of the Hawk. Produit par Dieter Bohlen, l’album a atteint le Top 5 des palmarès des pays germanophones. A la fin du mois de février, il devient disque d’Or en Allemagne. Après avoir atteint 105 000 000 clics sur YouTube et deux prix disque d’or, le multi-instrumentiste a enregistré son 5e album studio en 2017.

Leo Rojas décrit son nouveau son comme une symbiose de rythmes électroniques et de sons traditionnels amérindiens. Leo décrit ainsi son nouvel album : «Les voix de mes ancêtres amérindiens vous parlent à travers ma musique. C’est la porte d’entrée des âmes des temps passés.» Leo Rojas s’est produit dans de nombreux pays comme l’Allemagne, la Suisse, le Brésil, l’Iran, la Pologne, la France et la Tunisie. Ses trois concerts à Alger, les 4, 5 et 6 décembre 2018 sont un événement à ne pas rater.
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Un nouvel ouvrage, Algérie, les écrivains de la décennie noire, tente d’apporter une autre lecture littéraire et sociologique sur les années 1990 où l’Algérie était confrontée à la barbarie terroriste qui n’a épargné aucune frange de la société et encore moins les intellectuels. L’auteur de cet ouvrage (2018, CNRS Editions, 344 pages) Tristan Leperlier, chercheur au Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (EHESS) essaie de faire comprendre, à travers son étude, la guerre des écrivains algériens dans les années 1990 en mettant la lumière sur leur place dans les sociétés algérienne et française.

S’adressant à des lecteurs curieux qui veulent découvrir une littérature algérienne «proche et lointaine de langue française ou arabe», Tristan Leperlier, normalien et docteur en sociologie et littérature, dont sa thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2015 avait pour thème «Une guerre des langues ? : le champ littéraire algérien pendant la décennie noire» (1988- 2003) : crise politique et consécrations transnationales», estime que, face à une telle tragédie, le poète et journaliste, se référant à Tahar Djaout, «réveille le sens héroïque de la littérature». En analysant cette période douloureuse vécue par les Algériens, l’auteur ambitionne de comprendre «ce que le politique fait à la littérature et ce que fait la littérature au politique», tout en soulignant que l’écrivain algérien est «l’objet de luttes permanentes» entre les acteurs du champ littéraire qui est multilingue et transnational. Son étude, très riche en références bibliographiques, s’appuie sur des méthodes littéraires et sociologiques formant ainsi un corpus littéraire élargi, constitué à partir de la littérature critique et des entretiens avec plus de 70 écrivains.

L’auteur montre que les engagements littéraires et politiques des écrivains algériens pendant la «décennie noire» étaient liés à leurs positions dans leur champ littéraire qui a une «triple caractéristique» : bilingue, transnational et politisé. A cet effet, les premiers chapitres de l’étude, qui s’ébranle des événements du 5 Octobre 1988, rendent compte des prises de position politique des écrivains et montrent que les violences de cette période illustrent une «véritable crise» pour le champ littéraire. C’est ainsi que cette analyse poussée, ayant une base documentaire solide, tente de «montrer la nécessité pour comprendre les prises de position des écrivains algériens dans la ‘‘décennie noire’’, de les restituer dans leur champ d’exercice, un champ littéraire surpolitisé, bilingue et transnational». Pour le sociologue, qui fait également un travail de critique littéraire, la tragédie nationale n’a pas «révolutionné» le champ littéraire, «mais en a modifié les contours».

Pour mettre en valeur la diversité du champ littéraire algérien, Tristan Leperlier revient sur les romans des écrivains qui ont marqué l’Algérie d’avant et après l’indépendance comme Mohammed Dib, Assia Djebar, Maïssa Bey, Rachid Boudjedra, Rachid Mimouni et Yasmina Khadra, pour ne citer que ceux-là.

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