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A több mint 200 kiemelt európai energetikai infrastrukturális projektből mostanáig mindössze 13 készült el. Egy neves energetikai és pénzügyi vezetőkből álló csoport nyolcpontos javaslatban foglalta össze az Európai Bizottságnak, hogy mit kellene tenni a beruházások ösztönzése érdekében a határkeresztező energia-infrastruktúrákba.

A Tartományi Választási Bizottság (PIK) meghozta döntését, miszerint három szavazóhelyen újra az urnák elé hívja a polgárokat, jelenti a 021.

Encadrés par six instructeurs du Détachement d’instruction opérationnelle (DIO) français, le peloton d’éclairage du 1er régiment d’intervention de l’armée libanaise a suivi le stage Section d’éclairage et de reconnaissance (SER). Il s’agit d’une formation d’une durée de six semaines, du 12 mars au 25 avril, date de la cérémonie de remise de diplômes. L’instruction a eu lieu sur la base du 1errégiment d’intervention de Tripoli.

Nouvel épisode du rapprochement franco-australien : après les sous-marins, les roulements de tambours.   Au sens propre. Le maître tambour de l’armée de l’air australienne, Ben Van Den Akker (à droite), était en France mardi pour commémorer la mort de soldats australiens lors de la Première Guerre mondiale. Lire la suite sur leparisien.fr

Un hélicoptère assurant une navette avec des plateformes pétrolières en mer du Nord s'est écrasé ce vendredi 29 avril dans l'ouest de la Norvège. Les 13 occupants ont été retrouvés morts, selon les secours sur place.

Alors que le dossier semblait clos, le président sud-africain Jacob Zuma pourrait être poursuivi pour corruption dans une affaire de contrat d'armement, qui l'empoisonne depuis 2007, après une décision, vendredi, de la Haute Cour de Pretoria.

Un jeune militaire capverdien a été arrêté mercredi suite à une fusillade perpétrée la veille. Il est soupçonné du meurtre de onze personnes, dont deux techniciens espagnols. Un homme de 23 ans, membre des forces armées du Cap-Vert, a été arrêté mercredi dans le quartier de la capitale, Praia. Lire la suite sur lefigaro.fr

Auf Initiative des Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung und der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung fand am 19. und 20. April 2016 in Brüssel das erste öffentliche Europasymposium europäischer Partnerstiftungen unter dem Titel 'Net@Work' statt. Zu den Ehrengästen zählte auch die Vorsitzende der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, Prof. Ursula Männle, die das Forum gemeinsam mit dem Vorsitzenden des Martens Centre und ehemaligen slowakischen Ministerpräsidenten, Mikulás Dzurinda, sowie Dr. Wolfgang Maier, stv. Hauptabteilungsleiter der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, eröffnete.

Allégations mensongères. C’est ainsi que Sébastien Germain Ajavon qualifie les rumeurs qui depuis quelques jours font de lui le principal concessionnaire de la Société béninoise d’énergie électrique (SBEE).

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Un convoi de pirogues conduites par des gendarmes et des militaires a été la cible d’une embuscade de trois pirogues avec à leur bord des individus « en majorité cagoulés », sur le territoire de la commune de Maripasoula (sud-ouest guyanais) à la frontière du Suriname. Le convoi des forces de l’ordre attaqué ramenait à Maripasoula six pirogues saisies les ...

Two simple truths are often overlooked in debates about today’s global refugee crisis: The principal driver of the exodus is, above all, the recent rise in the spread of deadly conflict in the Middle East; and what opened the way to this disorder is the breakdown of an international system we had built over the past 70 years.Because of our failure to end wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia, we are collectively responsible for more than half of the estimated 20 million refugees. Globally, another 40 million people have been displaced within their own countries.

Raped, they drown in humiliation while seeking punishment to culprits

By Tamanna Khan
Apr 29 2016 (The Daily Star, Bangladesh)

The dead do not feel anything, but those who survive do. The horrendous experience of the insensitive two-finger test after rape. The courtroom insults during trial because a draconian law permits the accused to question the victim’s character. The families suffer no less humiliation as they wait for justice. While nations around the world have overhauled relevant laws with provisions that shield the rape victims, ours still favour the offender instead. Isn’t it time we were a little more sensitive towards the victims of a crime now regarded as a crime against society? In the wake of Tonu murder after suspected rape, The Daily Star tries to shed some light on all these aspects.
Today, the first two instalments of a three-part series.

Her dark-circled, deep-set eyes gave her a hollow look. The eyes were full of fear and mistrust.

The girl gave sideways glances as she hesitantly walked into the office of the One-stop-Crisis Centre (OCC) at Dhaka Medical College Hospital last month. She looked afraid, and when she noticed a man sitting in the room, she immediately cringed.

She is a rape victim.

For about a week after her rescue, she hardly spoke, OCC officials recall.

Her trauma and fear is shared by another rape survivor, a married woman, who was rescued from a sex racket in India last year.

“It’s not easy to tell even your closest family members what has happened to you,” the woman told The Daily Star recently. Humiliation and shame initially prevented her from telling her husband about the sexual assault when he found her in a shelter home in India months after her rescue. Her husband later came to know about it from others.

But Joya (not her real name), a teen girl, did not need to tell anyone anything. When she was found lying unconscious beside a road by her cousin four years ago, the marks on her body said it all.

“My cousin took me to a hospital. I hardly remember anything as my mind was all confused,” she told this correspondent recently by telephone from a shelter home run by Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association (BNWLA).

The Daily Star is withholding all the victims’ names.

In 2012, Joya was abducted by her stalker who “confined and raped her at gunpoint”. Later, her unconscious body was dumped by a road. When her family tried to seek justice, the alleged rapist and his cronies attacked her house and killed her father.

In between long pauses and painful sighs, she described the difficult path she had been walking to get justice. The first blow came at the police station where there were no women’s cells or woman law enforcers.

“I felt very afraid. I couldn’t trust any one of them. They were all men,” she described her feelings at the police station.

“I didn’t want to talk, I felt groggy… screams went through my head and my heart wrenched. I kept on wondering why no one could hear my cries or see my tears.”

Then came the time for medical examination — the two-finger test — and the girl, now 16, had no idea about its insensitive nature.

For the test, doctors use their index or middle finger to check the condition of the hymen and also to look for injuries on the vaginal wall.

So when a female doctor proceeded to do the test, the girl put up resistance at first. But eventually she had to give in because, as her aunt told her, there was no other way to get justice.

Adding to her ordeal, she had to narrate the sexual assault in details repeatedly not just to the police but also to journalists against her will.

“I felt very bad, embarrassed and hurt. But I told myself I needed to do this for justice,” said the girl, who is now in class nine.

Four years on, the hearing of her case has not started yet.

But for those who have gone through the trial, the court proceedings have been a nightmare: character assassination, insensitive and even vulgar questions, cross-examinations for hours are in the defence lawyers’ arsenal to further traumatise the victim.

Fahmida Akhter Rinky, a lawyer for BNWLA dealing with rape cases at the lower court for six years, spoke about the torment a nine-year-old girl went through during a trial recently.

“The child was only about four years old when she was raped. So the judge was careful and talked with the girl softly but the defence lawyer was shouting at her and accusing her of lying about how she was raped,” said Rinky.

This is despite the medical examination documents and other evidence clearly showing that the girl was raped.

“The child was so embarrassed and ashamed that she shrunk in fear,” said Rinky.

The girl recoiled from the humiliation in the courtroom full of people and kept on looking at Rinky.

“I felt so bad that she had to go through that,” said the lawyer.

Often, defence counsels “decidedly” choose a line of questioning aimed at maligning the victim in efforts to make the crime look like the victim’s fault, said Laily Maksuda Akhter, director of Legal Aid Unit of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad.

To save themselves from all this, especially the two-finger test which law activists vehemently oppose, many rape victims do not report the assault to the police.

“Many victims get so traumatised that they do not want to go through the forensic examination. Children in particular scream, because they fear they would get hurt again,” said Tahmina Haque, psychological counsellor at the OCC.

However, according to Bilkis Begum, coordinator of the OCC, there is no alternative to the two-finger test for women older than nine years. “It is part of any gynecological examination. Injuries cannot be detected without it.”

In many countries, including the UK and the US, doctors use the specula, a medical tool, for the test instead of fingers.

But the main problem lies in the report itself, said Ishita Dutta, project facilitator, SHOKHI, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST). “It is not for the doctors to determine if a victim has been raped or not. But that is what they write down in the reports.”

This story was originally published by The Daily Star, Bangladesh

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Foreign non-profit organisations in China will be supervised by the police, according to a controversial law passed by Chinese legislators on April 28. This is reportedly part of President Xi Jinping’s ongoing efforts to eliminate what the government sees as unwanted influences from overseas.

As reported by The Wall Street Journal, earlier versions of the law drew an outpouring of opposition from foreign governments, rights groups and academics for being overly broad and treating foreign nonprofits as a security threat. The final version passed by legislators is narrower in scope and addresses some of these criticisms.

For instance, the new law exempts professional exchanges and cooperation involving foreign hospitals, schools and science and engineering groups and effectively grandfathers in groups already legally registered. But left unchanged in the law is the controversial provision putting the public security ministry in charge of the registration process for the overseas groups.

The law also requires that, once registered, groups publish online annual reports including financial information for all activities. The law authorises the police to search nonprofits’ offices and summon their representatives at will.

“China has a positive, open and welcoming attitude toward overseas nongovernmental organizations that come here to engage in friendly exchanges, interactions and cooperation,” Zhang Yong, vice director of the legal committee of the National People’s Congress, told a press conference in Beijing on April 28.

“But – and I don’t think there’s any need to mince words – there is certainly a very small minority of foreign NGOs which intend to or have already damaged social stability and national security,” he said, adding that nearly 10,000 foreign non-profits operate in China and the vast majority had no way to register legally.

According to The Wall Street Journal’s report, the tenor and aim of the new law fits with a wide-ranging campaign under President Xi to galvanize Chinese society against foreign ideologies and influence and to bolster support for Communist Party rule.

The law warns that any activities that threaten national security or ethnic harmony will be punished.

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Overcoming years of poor health and crisis, the eurozone economy grew at its fastest pace in five years in the first quarter, driven by unlikely stars such as France and Spain.

The eurozone’s economy has thus finally recouped all the ground lost in the recessions of the past eight years after official figures Friday showed that the 19-country single currency bloc expanded by a quarterly rate of 0.6 % in the first three months of the year.

Blowing past both the U.S. and British economies, the latter weighed down by uncertainty over possibly leaving the Europe Union, euro zone growth doubled from the previous quarter, beating even the most optimistic expectations on healthy household consumption and a rebound in investments.

The scale of the increase reported by Eurostat in a preliminary estimate was totally unexpected — the consensus in the markets was for a more modest rise to 0.4 % from the previous quarter’s 0.3 %.

Eurostat said the increase means that the eurozone economy is now 0.4 % bigger than it was in the first quarter of 2008, before the deep recession stoked by the global financial crisis. Since then, the eurozone has had a torrid time, falling in and out of recession as the global financial crisis morphed into a debt crisis that at various times has threatened the future of the euro currency itself.

The eurozone’s recovery of the ground lost over the past few years has lagged other major economies, including the U.S., by years.

Still, it’s a signal that the eurozone’s finally gaining some economic momentum. The first-quarter rise came in spite of concerns stoked by the huge volatility in financial markets in the first couple of months of the year that centered on worries over the Chinese economic outlook and the sharp fall in the price of oil.

In a further positive development, Eurostat reported that the unemployment rate across the region fell to 10.2 % in March from the previous month’s 10.4 %, bringing it to its lowest since August 2011.

Though these figures are encouraging, the eurozone remains afflicted by low inflation. Eurostat said in a separate report that consumer prices in the year to April fell by 0.2 %. That’s down from the previous month’s annual rate of zero and below market expectations for a more modest decline to minus 0.1 %. The core rate, which strips out the volatile items of food, alcohol, tobacco and energy, also declined to 0.8 % from 1 percent. (with AP, Reuters)

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Hier, lors de l'étude du texte sur les autorités administratives indépendantes, la présidente de séance, Sandrine Mazetier, a tenu faire passer un mot spécial après la fin de la discussion générale. Le remerciement à un collaborateur en fin de carrière, ou à un fonctionnaire, est quelque chose de rare à l'Assemblée.

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La Cour de cassation de Ouagadougou a annulé le mandat d’arrêt international lancé par la justice militaire contre l’ex-président burkinabè Blaise Compaoré et le président de l’Assemblée nationale de Côte d’Ivoire Guillaume Soro, a indiqué jeudi le procureur général de cette cour.

 

« Tous les mandats d’arrêt internationaux ont été annulés aujourd’hui par la Cour de cassation pour vice de forme. Ca concerne aussi bien le mandat d’arrêt contre Blaise Compaoré, celui contre Guillaume Soro et bien d’autres », a déclaré à l’AFP le procureur général de la Cour de cassation Armand Ouédraogo.

 

« Ces annulations ont été faites pour vice de forme parce qu’il aurait fallu demander les réquisitions du commissaire du gouvernement (procureur), du tribunal militaire avant d’émettre les mandats. Cette formalité n’ayant pas été accomplie, la Cour a donc décidé d’annuler tous les mandats internationaux », a indiqué M. Ouédraogo.

 

Le commissaire du gouvernement a saisi la Chambre de contrôle puis la Cour de cassation afin d’obtenir l’annulation de ces mandats, a indiqué une source proche du dossier.

 

« L’article 130 du Code de procédure pénale oblige le juge à requérir les réquisitions du procureur avant tout mandat international », a précisé cette source.

 

La justice militaire burkinabè avait lancé le 4 décembre un mandat d’arrêt international contre Blaise Compaoré, réfugié en Côte d’Ivoire depuis qu’il a été renversé le 31 octobre 2014.

 

M. Compaoré a été inculpé pour son implication présumée dans l’assassinat du président Thomas Sankara, tué le 15 octobre 1987 lors d’un coup d’Etat qui l’avait porté au pouvoir.

 

Il est poursuivi pour « assassinat », « attentat » et « recel de cadavre » dans le cadre de l’enquête ouverte fin mars 2015, par les autorités de la transition burkinabé.

 

La justice militaire burkinabè avait par ailleurs émis le 8 janvier un mandat d’arrêt contre le président de l’Assemblée nationale ivoirienne Guillaume Soro pour son implication présumée dans le coup d’Etat manqué contre le gouvernement de transition burkinabè en septembre 2015.

 

La justice se base sur l’enregistrement d’une conversation téléphonique supposée entre Djibrill Bassolé, ex-ministre des Affaires étrangères du Burkina, et Guillaume Soro.

 

Djibrill Bassolé, homme clé du régime de Blaise Compaoré, et Guillaume Soro, ancien chef de la rébellion ivoirienne (2002-2010) ont tous les deux nié avoir eu cette conversation, dénonçant une « manipulation ».

 

Le mandat d’arrêt international contre Mme Fatou Diallo, l’épouse du général Gilbert Diendéré, cerveau présumé du coup d’Etat manqué, a été également annulé.

 

« L’annulation des mandats ne veut pas dire que c’est fini. Les juges peuvent reprendre et corriger les actes en suivant les procédures pour les rendre valides. Ce sont des lacunes qui peuvent être reprises. Même dès demain si les juges le veulent », a indiqué M. Ouédraogo.

 

« Je n’ai pas été tenu au courant de cette décision par quelque juridiction que ce soit bien qu’étant l’auteur du recours », a réagi de son côté le commissaire du gouvernement, le colonel Norbert Tiendrébéogo, indiquant « attendre toujours la décision » de la Cour de cassation.

 

SOURCE : AFP/p>
 


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