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Kaja Kallas en difficulté à la recherche d’argent et de pouvoir

Euractiv.fr - 5 hours 33 min ago

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LIVE NOW! Green Lead Markets – Driving Europe’s industrial decarbonisation

Euractiv.com - 5 hours 34 min ago
The European Union aims to reach climate neutrality by 2050, with a 55% reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Meeting these goals will not only require decarbonising our energy system but also fundamentally transforming industrial production. As part of its efforts to decarbonise energy-intensive industries, the European Commission is designing the legislative proposal […]
Categories: Africa, European Union

THE HACK: Showtime for sovereignty in Berlin

Euractiv.com - 5 hours 34 min ago
In today's edition: GDPR reboot, spectrum for 6G, DSA review, more Space Act lobbying

Segítsenek megtalálni Tiffanit (12)! – Losoncról tűnt el

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - 5 hours 34 min ago
A nyilvánosság segítségét kéri a rendőrség a losonci illetőségű Tiffani Fabianová (12) megtalálásához, akit vasárnap (11. 16.) láttak legutóbb.

I3 Cap2b felhívás online EISMEA Információs nap (2025. november 19.)

EU Pályázati Portál - 5 hours 41 min ago
Ismét megrendezik az Európai Uniós online infónapot az I3 eszköz Strand 2b felhívásáról.
Categories: Pályázatok, Swiss News

Condamné à 14 ans de prison, Désiré Vodonou voit sa peine réduite à 7 ans

24 Heures au Bénin - 5 hours 48 min ago

La chambre des appels de la CRIET a rendu ce lundi 17 novembre 2025 son verdict dans le procès en appel de Désiré Vodonou et de ses co-prévenus. L'ex-député a vu sa condamnation à 14 ans de prison dans l'affaire de la casse d'une banque réduite à 7 ans de prison. Ses co-prévenus, le banquier Sylvestre Attadé et son informaticien sénégalais, Sy Sérigne Abdoul Aziz s'en sortent également avec la même peine de prison et d'amendes réduites.

La condamnation de l'ex-élu de Zogbodomey Désiré Vodonou et de ses co prévenus a été revue à la baisse en appel. Condamnés à 14 ans de prison et à 2 milliards FCFA d'amendes par la chambre correctionnelle de la Cour de répression des infractions économiques et du terrorisme (CRIET) à travers un jugement rendu le jeudi 02 avril 2024, l'ex-député Désiré Vodonou et ses coprévenus ont interjeté appel. Après plusieurs mois d'instruction devant la chambre des appels, le verdict est tombé ce lundi 17 novembre 2025, rapporte l'envoyé spécial de Libre Express.

Dans la décision rendue, la chambre des appels a infirmé partiellement le jugement rendu le jeudi 4 avril 2024 en première instance. Évoquant et statuant à nouveau, ladite Cour a réduit les peines de prison de Désiré Vodonou, de l'ex-chef d'agence Godomey de la BGFI, Sylvestre Attadé et de l'informaticien sénégalais Sy Sérigne Abdoul Aziz de 14 ans à 7 ans de prison ferme. En ce qui concerne l'amende, elle est réduite par la Chambre des appels à ⅓ soit plus de 600 millions.

Par ailleurs, la chambre des appels a confirmé la confiscation de tous les biens de Désiré Vodonou et de ces deux co-prévenus à l'exception de ceux réservés à l'usage familial. Le juge en appel a également confirmé l'interdiction de séjour le Sénégalais Sy Sérigne Abdoul Aziz à la fin de sa peine de prison. Il est aussi confirmé en appel l'interdiction de façon définitive l'exercice de la fonction de banquier au prévenu Sylvestre Attadé, rapporte l'envoyé spécial de Libre Express.

Les faits

Dans l'affaire casse d'une banque au Bénin, l'ex-député de Zogbodomey et ses coprévenus ont été placés en détention préventive depuis novembre 2022. Selon le ministère public lors du procès devant la chambre correctionnelle de la CRIET, l'ex-député Désiré Vodonou et ses deux co-prévenus ont été arrêtés dans le cadre d'une affaire de server to server qui consisterait à s'immiscer dans le système informatique de la banque BGFI pour introduire de l'argent en provenance de Russie. Mais sentant le danger, l'ex-député s'est retiré de cette affaire, affirmait le magistrat.

Le procureur signale que l'objectif visé est de ramener virtuellement de l'argent de Russie, de le mettre sur le système informatique de BGFI et de le remettre dans le circuit normal. Il s'agit de brouiller les pistes en introduisant de l'argent illicite dans un système licite, renseigne-t-il. « C'est du blanchiment de capitaux », précise le procureur. Le substitut du procureur spécial de la CRIET précisait que le banquier Sylvestre Attadé a facilité l'opération avec l'appui de l'informaticien sénégalais.

Source : https://libre-express.bj/justice/4054/proces-en-appel-de-laffaire-casse-dune-banque-devant-la-criet-condamne-a-14-ans-de-prison-lex-depute-desire-vodonou-voit-sa-peine-reduite-a-7-ans

Categories: Afrique

HARVEST: Banned means banned

Euractiv.com - 5 hours 49 min ago
In today's edition: Food safety, novel foods, tuna

Quels sont les pays déjà qualifiés pour la Coupe du monde 2026 ?

BBC Afrique - 6 hours 2 min ago
34 pays dont 9 africains ont déjà validé leur place à la coupe du monde 2026. Pour la première fois de l’histoire, la Coupe du monde accueillera 48 équipes et se déroulera dans trois pays simultanément (États-Unis, Canada et Mexique).
Categories: Afrique

Disease agency sounds alarm over Europe’s thin pipeline of new antibiotics

Euractiv.com - 6 hours 4 min ago
In Europe, superbugs cause 35,000 deaths annually
Categories: European Union

Csak 63 fityinget romlott a forint: 384,71 HUF = 1 euró

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - 6 hours 4 min ago
Mfor.hu: Gyengült a forint árfolyama kedden (11. 18.) reggel a nemzetközi devizakereskedelemben. Az euró hét órakor 384,71 forintra erősödött a hétfő esti 384,08 forintról. A dollár jegyzése 331,16 forintról 331,83 forintra nőtt, a svájci franké pedig 416,28 forintról 417,47 forintra emelkedett. (MTI)

UNRWA Continues Operations in Gaza Amid Ongoing Insecurity and Shortages of Essential Services

Africa - INTER PRESS SERVICE - 6 hours 23 min ago

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), briefs reporters on UNRWA's services across the occupied Palestinian territories and UNRWA' s ongoing operations. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten

By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18 2025 (IPS)

After nearly two years of conflict between Hamas and Israel, displaced Palestinians in Gaza have begun returning home as humanitarian organizations work to restore essential, life-saving services. Despite recent progress, the United Nations (UN) and its partners continue to face major obstacles in reaching the most vulnerable populations due to ongoing insecurity and heightened restrictions. With winter fast approaching—and expected to further worsen living conditions—sustained aid operations remain critical.

Roughly one month into the ceasefire, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported ongoing daily bombardments of residential areas in zones where Israeli forces remain deployed, particularly in eastern Khan Younis and eastern Gaza City. The agency has also documented multiple ceasefire violations along the “Yellow Line,” leading to numerous civilian casualties.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, between October 29 and November 5, bombardments resulted in 15 Palestinian deaths and 24 injuries. An additional 31 bodies were recovered from the rubble of collapsed buildings. The Ministry further reports that since the start of the ceasefire, 241 Palestinians have been killed and 609 injured.

Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), observed that the humanitarian situation in Gaza firmly hinges on the stability of the ceasefire. “A ceasefire that merely prolongs the absence of war without charting a viable path to peace would only repeat the disastrous mistakes of the past,” Lazzarini wrote in a Guardian op-ed on November 10. “A truly peaceful future requires a genuine investment in a definitive political solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.”

Additionally, Lazzarini underscored the urgent need for an international stabilization force to protect key civilian infrastructures and facilitate a smooth flow of humanitarian operations, as well as increased accountability measures to acquire justice for victims of violations of international humanitarian law. On November 12, Lazzarini informed reporters at the UN headquarters that accountability is crucial in establishing a sustainable end to violence and a path to recovery for Palestine as a whole.

“The starting point could at least be a board of inquiry,” said Lazzarini, “More broadly, if we want to promote any lasting peace, I don’t think we would succeed if we aren’t going for the delivery of justice and healing, and recognizing the scope of atrocities that have been committed.”

Despite the UN recording considerable improvement in the humanitarian situation of Gaza, conditions remain dire, with famine and disease remaining imminent threats for most Gazans. The UN and its partners continue to face significant access constraints imposed by Israeli authorities. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres informed reporters that the UN is far from having “what is necessary to eliminate famine quickly and create conditions for the people in Gaza to have the very, very minimum that is necessary for dignity in life”.

Philippe Lazzarini (right), the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) briefing on UNRWA’s operations in the occupied Palestinian territory. Credit: Oritro Karim/IPS

OCHA further notes that access to humanitarian aid and agricultural fields beyond the Yellow Line remains prohibited, with yellow-painted concrete blocks being set up to demarcate prohibited areas, as ordered by the Israeli Minister of Defence. Access to the sea also remains barred, with Israeli forces detaining at least five fishers since November 4.

According to OCHA, several essential aid items remain barred from entering Gaza—including humanitarian vehicles, solar panels, mobile latrines, x-ray machines, food and educational supplies, and generators—many of which Israeli authorities classify as outside the scope of humanitarian assistance. OCHA also reports continued restrictions on maintenance tools needed for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) systems. Dozens of UNRWA vehicles and equipment, including water tankers and jetting trucks, have yet to be cleared for entry.

UNRWA and its partners have expressed alarm over the continued imposition of such restrictions during the ceasefire, particularly with the approaching winter season projected to exacerbate living conditions for Palestinians in displacement shelters. The Shelter Cluster estimates that at least 259,000 Palestinian families, or more than 1.45 million Gazans, will be adversely affected by the winter if adequate protection services are not put in place soon.

In a November 5 joint statement from several UN agencies, including UNRWA, UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN and its partners have been collaborating with Gaza’s Ministry of Health to prepare an “integrated catch-up campaign” for immunization and nutritional support, aiming to reach approximately 44,000 children who have been cut off from lifesaving services since the beginning of this conflict.

An estimated one in five children under age three are zero-dose or under-vaccinated due to the conflict, leaving them highly vulnerable to preventable disease outbreaks. The campaign will be carried out in three rounds to provide children with missed routine vaccinations, including Pentavalent, Polio, Rota, Pneumococcal, and two doses of the MMR vaccine.

Vaccination services will be available at 149 health facilities and 10 mobile vehicles across the enclave, with the first round scheduled for November 9-18. The second and third rounds of the vaccine campaign are planned for December 2025 and January 2026, respectively.

Alongside vaccinations, UNICEF and partners will screen children for malnutrition, provide treatment and follow-up for those affected, and refer severe cases to WHO-supported stabilization centers. UNICEF is also rehabilitating 15 health centers, while WHO is restoring an additional 20 facilities that were partially or fully destroyed.

On 14 October 2025 in Gaza’s Middle Area, State of Palestine, 4-year-old Abd Al Kareem eats from a sachet of Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements (LNS) during a malnutrition screening. Credit: Rawan Eleyan/UNICEF

“This immunization campaign is a lifeline, protecting children’s health and restoring hope for the future,” said Dr Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative in the occupied Palestinian territory. “It’s a crucial step in strengthening essential health services and protecting vulnerable children in Gaza who have been cut off for far too long. Yet this is only one piece of the puzzle. Much more is needed, and WHO is working to rebuild Gaza’s fragile health system so every child, every community, can access the care they deserve.”

Additionally, Lazzarini informed reporters on November 12 that UNRWA has been a lifeline for Gaza since the beginning of this crisis. Over the past two years, UNRWA has supported over 15 million primary health consultations, providing over 14,000 consultations on average on a daily basis.

UNRWA has also been instrumental in keeping the water system in the enclave from collapsing, with Lazzarini stating that roughly “40 percent of clean water is thanks to the work of (UNRWA’s) engineer(s) on the ground.” Furthermore, UNRWA has supported more than 48,000 children across 96 UNRWA schools five days a week, alongside bringing online education back to about 300,000 children.

“I do believe that we are and remain an extraordinary asset at the disposal of the international community, especially for securing critical services for the population of Gaza and any effort in stabilization and success,” said Lazzarini. “The main challenge is that we need to safeguard the operational space of the agency in Gaza. That’s challenge number one, to acknowledge that the agency is a vital key partner and an invaluable asset to the international community to help consolidate the ceasefire and ensure a successful recovery.”

IPS UN Bureau Report

 


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Categories: Africa, Europäische Union

Studie zeigt: Aufhebung des AKW-Neubauverbots verzögert die Energiewende

Blick.ch - 6 hours 27 min ago
Eine Aufhebung des AKW-Neubauverbots verzögert die Energiewende. Allein schon die vage Aussicht auf ein neues Atomkraftwerk bremst Investitionen und verunmöglicht die Ausbauziele bei den erneuerbaren Energien. Das hält die Schweizerische Energiestiftung fest.
Categories: Afrique, Swiss News

Fico Nyitrán ünnepeltette magát november 17-én

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - 6 hours 34 min ago
Robert Fico, a Smer vezére és kormányfője hétfőn (11. 17.) a nyitrai Agrokomlex kiállítási központba nagy sebtében összehívott pártrendezvényen többek között a hazai politikai rendszer reformjának a fontosságáról szónokolt, valamint megkérdőjelezte a Kuciak-gyilkosság ügyében lezajlott rendőri nyomozás eredményét.

Encouraging clean investment: The role of tax incentives

Written by Pieter Baert.

Achieving ambitious climate objectives while supporting robust economic growth and safeguarding tax revenue requires simple and well-targeted tax incentives that encourage sustainable investment. The European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Tax Matters (FISC) is due to hold a public hearing on this topic on 20 November 2025.

Clean industrial deal – tax recommendations

Launched in February 2025, the clean industrial deal is a package of wide-ranging actions aimed at ensuring that decarbonisation is a driver of economic growth for the European economy. Next to concrete action to lower energy prices, the European Commission published a (non-binding) recommendation to guide Member States when introducing and designing tax incentives to support the clean industrial deal objectives.

Firstly, the Commission recommends that Member States allow companies to deduct investment in green technology from their taxable income more quickly (‘accelerated depreciation‘), or even immediately (‘full or immediate expensing’). By enabling companies to deduct the cost of the asset faster – rather than spreading the cost evenly over time – accelerated depreciation effectively raises the after-tax rate of return on investment and helps mitigate distortions caused by inflation. While this incentive does not ultimately increase the nominal value of deductions, it does enhance their real value by allowing firms to claim them earlier, thereby improving businesses’ cash flow.

FranceInvestment in renewable energy equipment or energy-saving technologies can be depreciated at 2, 2.5 or 3 times the normal rate.Germany75 % of costs on electric company vehicles acquired after 30 June 2025 and before 1 January 2028 can be deducted in their first year.IrelandThe Accelerated Capital Allowance (ACA) scheme allows companies to deduct the full cost of investment in energy-efficient equipment in the year of purchase, rather than over the standard eight-year period.SpainSince 2023, Spain allows companies to apply accelerated depreciation for new electric and hydrogen company vehicles, at twice the standard depreciation rate. This also applies to investment in new electric vehicle charging infrastructure, both normal and high-power.

Accelerated depreciation for green assets – Member State examples (non-exhaustive)

Secondly, the Commission recommends that Member States, where feasible, use cost-effective and targeted tax credits for investment that creates sufficient manufacturing capacity in clean technologies, supports industrial decarbonisation, or strengthens the EU’s strategic resilience (for example, the production of a net-zero product where the EU is currently highly dependent on a single third country). The Commission notes that empirical evidence generally ranks input-based tax credits – for example, those covering R&D costs for green investment – higher than income-based credits, such as patent boxes, arguing that the former are more cost-effective in stimulating additional investment.

Action on these recommendations should be combined with other policy measures, such as the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies, whether provided through tax expenditure or direct grants.

The Council welcomed the Commission’s recommendations, but underlined the need for flexibility, allowing Member States to adapt tax incentives to their specific fiscal contexts and budgets.

Revision of the Energy Taxation Directive

The proposal to revise the Energy Taxation Directive (ETD) remains the only unfinished file in the Commission’s ‘fit for 55‘ package, tabled in 2021, aiming to reduce emissions by 55 % by 2030.

The ETD lays down EU-wide minimum excise duty rates on motor/heating fuels and electricity. Member States are free to set their own tax rates as long as they respect the ETD’s minimum rates. The Commission’s proposal aims to update the directive – unchanged since 2003 – to bring it into line with the EU’s climate objectives and modern green technology, while maintaining Member States’ capacity to raise tax revenue. While reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preserving tax revenues are not inherently contradictory objectives, concern is growing about potential long-term future revenue erosion for national budgets, as excise duties on fossil fuels decline with the green transition.

Some of the proposal’s key provisions to revise the ETD include:

  • Shifting from volume- to energy content-based taxation: Minimum rates would no longer be expressed per litre or kilogram, but rather per gigajoule of energy content, removing the existing tax bias against low-energy-content biofuels.
  • Environmental ranking of minimum rates: A new structure would tax energy products according to their environmental performance, ensuring that electricity is always taxed at the lowest rate and fossil fuels at the highest.
  • Gradual rate increases: Minimum rates for certain energy products, such as natural gas, would rise by one-tenth each year over a ten-year transitional period, to balance social costs, climate objectives, and fiscal stability.
  • Annual indexation: Minimum rates would be automatically adjusted each year to preserve their real value over time and prevent erosion through inflation.
  • Phasing out exemptions and reductions: The proposal removes several existing tax advantages, including the mandatory exemptions currently granted to maritime and aviation fuels.

Over the four years of negotiation, reaching the required unanimous support in the Council has proven difficult, aggravated by the energy cost crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising concerns about the resilience of European industry. Several Council presidencies have tried to break the impasse by proposing prolonged transitional periods and the possibility for Member States to provide total or partial exemptions for certain sectors and services, or the installation of an ’emergency brake’ on the increase in taxation rates when countries are faced with a sudden increase in energy prices.

The Danish Council Presidency had invited ministers to reach a general approach on the proposal on 13 November 2025, but a number of Member States expressed reservations about the proposed compromise text. Consultation on the file (2021/0213(CNS)) in the European Parliament continues.

Read this ‘at a glance note’ on ‘Encouraging clean investment: The role of tax incentives‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

Categories: Afrique, European Union

Five Breakthroughs for Women’s Rights Amidst Conflict and Crisis

Africa - INTER PRESS SERVICE - 6 hours 50 min ago

Even as their rights are under attack, women across the world are leading the charge to expand access to justice. Credit: UNDP Somalia

By Revai Makanje Aalbaek and Sarah Douglas
NEW YORK, Nov 18 2025 (IPS)

Even as their rights face growing threats, women across the globe are driving progress. From courtrooms to communities, women’s leadership is shaping peace, justice and development—often against the odds. In the face of conflict, exclusion and inequality, we continue to see powerful stories of hope, resilience and change. We are inspired by women who mediate local disputes, push for new laws and champion the rights of survivors, holding communities together.

These stories remind us that we achieve our best results when working together, especially when the task ahead is the elimination of deeply rooted and widespread barriers. The UNDP and UN Women Gender Justice Platform – made possible thanks to generous support from Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom—continues to support access to justice and women’s leadership in rule of law institutions in over 45 countries globally, proving that cross border solidarity can dismantle even the most entrenched inequality.

1. Women at the forefront of transitional justice in South Sudan

In the context of the 2018 Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) and its 2022 Roadmap Agreement, peacebuilding in South Sudan is ongoing, including efforts to deliver transitional justice and community reconciliation.

To safeguard women’s participation in decision-making in these processes, the Gender Justice Platform has supported key legal advancements. In 2024, South Sudan’s parliament adopted two laws guaranteeing that women have a seat and a voice in the Commission for Truth, Reconciliation and Healing and the Compensation and Reparations Authority.

The laws explicitly recognize the distinct impacts of conflict on women, offering special protection for victims and witnesses, particularly for women, children and persons with disabilities.

The laws were informed by recommendations put forward by South Sudanese women as a result of a consultation on gender-responsive and survivor-centred transitional justice, co-hosted in June 2023 by the Gender Justice Platform.

These laws mark a major step toward ensuring that women, including survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, shape how truth-telling occurs and reparations are delivered, and that women’s leadership is woven into South Sudan’s journey toward justice, reconciliation and peace.

Through the Gender Justice Platform, UNDP and UN Women have empowered women to participate in transitional justice processes in more than 20 countries, including Colombia, Ethiopia, Liberia and Mali.

2. Expanding access to justice in Tanzania

In Tanzania, women and underrepresented groups, including women with disabilities, often face deep-rooted barriers to justice. To address them, UN Women worked closely with the Ministry of Constitution and Legal Affairs, boosting its legal aid and awareness campaign to reach more than 56,000 people, half of them women and girls. Critical issues were on the agenda, including land and property disputes, inheritance, family matters and gender-based violence.

In Tanzania, paralegals and social workers deliver legal aid and raise awareness on women’s rights. Credit: UN Women/Hanna Mtango

For lasting impact, the Gender Justice Platform empowered local champions – paralegals, aid providers and community social workers – to deliver legal aid and raise awareness on women’s rights, justice and social norms.

Complementing this, strategic training for judges on gender responsive sentencing ensures that women’s needs are considered when cases reach court. Together, these efforts show that sustainable justice must integrate both formal and informal systems to be effective and trusted.

3. Women mediators in Yemen help women resolve legal disputes

The space for women’s rights is restricted in Yemen. As around 80 percent of disputes in the country are resolved through community-based mechanisms, UNDP supported women mediators and paralegals to provide services though these customary and informal networks.

In 2024 alone, women mediators and paralegals resolved over 1,200 local disputes, primarily family-related, in partnership with local civil society organizations such as the Youth Horizon Foundation, making this initiative a critical lifeline for those most in need.

Women paralegals are working as insider-mediators to build peace in a bottom-up manner, contributing to the overall stabilization of the country.

Through the Gender Justice Platform, UNDP assisted about 300 women held in a prison, many of whom are there with their children. With UNICEF and civil society, UNDP advocated to facilitate the release and reintegration of wrongfully detained women, restoring dignity and family connections.

One woman, for example, spent an additional seven years in the prison after completing her sentence, as no one from her family would come for her. With UNDP support, Yemen Women Union (YWU) reconciled the woman with her family, and she was released.

4. Championing women’s leadership in South East Asia

In courtrooms across Southeast Asia, women judges are reshaping justice. In Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Thailand, they are building mentoring networks to ensure the law reflects women’s lived realities.

Their enthusiasm and professionalism sparked the Women’s Leadership in the Judiciary initiative, along with a storytelling campaign through which women judges share their personal stories.

“To ensure gender justice,” explains Sapana Pradhan Malla of Nepal, “our first step was to make sure that the law reflects women’s experience and perspective, without exclusion or discrimination against women.”

By amplifying women’s voices, the Gender Justice Platform is nurturing a new generation of women leaders who are supporting the transformation of the judiciary from within.

5. Civil society advancing gender justice in Colombia

The Gender Justice Platform supports women’s civil society organizations that translate global commitments into local, feminist action, ensuring survivors’ voices shape every step of the justice process. In Colombia, the Alliance Initiative of Women for Peace brings together 248 organizations of survivors, activists and lawyers.

In 2024, with support from the Gender Justice Platform, the Alliance worked alongside survivors of sexual violence and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, Colombia’s transitional justice tribunal, to ensure full and restorative participation.

As Alliance Director Angela Cerón Lasprilla explains, “Knowing I was not the only survivor, that what happened was not my fault and that I am a human being, that I matter—it’s only possible to acknowledge that if you have the support.”

Advancing women’s rights benefits everyone. Evidence shows that the advancement of women’s rights fosters equality, economic growth and opportunities for all. When women have unimpeded access to their rights, including justice and security, societies have a better chance to prosper, live in peace and enjoy development.

Explore the 2024 annual report of the Gender Justice Platform to see and celebrate what we achieved together. Along with our partners, we will continue to foster change for women and their active participation in justice efforts, guided by the Women, Peace and Security agenda.

Revai Makanje Aalbaek is Senior Advisor on Justice and Security, UNDP Crisis Bureau;
Sarah Douglas is Deputy Chief, Peace, Security and Resilience Section, UN Women

The Gender Justice Platform is implemented under the framework of UNDP’s Global Programme for Strengthening the Rule of Law, Human Rights, Justice and Security for Sustainable Peace and Development.

Source: UNDP

IPS UN Bureau

 


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Bei Premiere bedrängt: Fan von Ariana Grande muss ins Gefängnis

Blick.ch - 6 hours 50 min ago
Bei der Premiere von «Wicked 2» in Singapur bedrängte ein Fan Superstar Ariana Grande auf dem roten Teppich. Das hat nun schwerwiegende Folgen für den Mann.
Categories: Afrique, Swiss News

Tiefster Stand seit April: Bitcoin gerade im freien Fall – minus 29 Prozent!

Blick.ch - 6 hours 58 min ago
Wie geht es den Schweizer Firmen? Was läuft an der Wall Street? Und wie entwickelt sich der Bitcoin- und Goldpreis? Im Liveticker halten wir dich über die neusten Entwicklungen an den Märkten auf dem Laufenden.

Prágában több mint százezer ember emlékezett meg november 17-éről

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - 7 hours 4 min ago
Denník N: Prágában is nagygyűlés zajlott a november 17-i évforduló alkalmából, amelyen több mint 100 ezer ember vett részt. A szabadságért vívott küzdelemről a nap folyamán Petr Pavol köztársasági elnök, és a politikai pártok vezetői is megemlékeztek – Tomio Okamura, a cseh parlament alsóházának az új elnöke kivételével. (deník n)

Le Monténégro et l'intégration européenne : un mauvais élève qui passera néanmoins en classe supérieure ?

Peu d'avancées sur l'État de droit, la liberté de la presse ou l'indépendance de la justice, révisionnisme historique et récente flambée de violence haineuse... Malgré tout, le Monténégro fait toujours figure de meilleur candidat des Balkans à l'intégration européenne. Les explications du rapporteur du Parlement européen, Marjan Šarec.

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Le Monténégro et l'intégration européenne : un mauvais élève qui passera néanmoins en classe supérieure ?

Courrier des Balkans - 7 hours 6 min ago

Peu d'avancées sur l'État de droit, la liberté de la presse ou l'indépendance de la justice, révisionnisme historique et récente flambée de violence haineuse... Malgré tout, le Monténégro fait toujours figure de meilleur candidat des Balkans à l'intégration européenne. Les explications du rapporteur du Parlement européen, Marjan Šarec.

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