Dec 24, 2024 · The war in Ukraine and Gaza, the protests in Georgia, the elections in Europe and elsewhere: it's a real challenge to sum up 2024 with a selection of press cartoons, as we do every year.Which is why, this year, we gave the task to our subscribers. We gave them the opportunity to make themselves heard and choose the best press cartoon published by Voxeurop each month – and they answered the call.

Jan 14, 2025 · A government-funded study released in 2020 by the organisation Provivienda exposed that seven out of ten real estate agencies in Spain refuse to rent/sell to people based on their origins despite fulfilling all other requirements. An issue not specific to Spain: the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), records that 31% of people of African descent in Europe faced racial discrimination ...

Jan 2, 2025 · On 6 February 2024, the European Union's Parliament and Council reached an agreement on the Directive on violence against women which had been tabled in March 2022. This text will harmonise national legislation on sexual harassment, female genital mutilation, sterilisation, forced marriage and "revenge porn" (the leaking of sexual images with the aim of harming someone).

Jan 20, 2025 · In the run-up to the elections, security forces are holding preventive interviews with former prisoners and activists. Although I cannot reveal the names of those I have spoken to as they are still in Belarus, they have reported that security forces are closely monitoring and intimidating people in the run-up to the elections.Human rights defenders confirm that this intimidation is widespread.

Pozirk – “Gaze” – is a Belarusian independent news agency reporting in Russian, Belarusian and English, founded by former employees of the independent BelaPAN news agency and its online newspaper Naviny.by.Since 2024, Pozirk has been designated by the Belarusian government as an extremist group.

Jan 21, 2025 · The human rights activist lives in exile in Lithuania, like 60,000 of his fellow Belarusians. We met him on one of his recent visits to Brussels, where he often represents Viasna, the largest human rights centre in Belarus, and the Belarusian Popular Front founder and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate Ales Bialiatski, currently imprisoned in Belarus.

Dec 12, 2024 · The scenario of a Russian intervention typically results from a reductive Russia versus the West prism. The regional situation is geopolitically more advantageous for Georgia: the country is a strategic transit corridor for Turkey, Azerbaijan and Central Asian countries. These countries have a strong interest in maintaining a Georgia that is not totally subservient to the Kremlin’s demands.

Dec 20, 2024 · “The issue of Islamophobia is a global problem, which has been amplified everywhere since 11 September 2001,” says Julien Talpin, a French sociologist at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), who specialises in questions related to integration and discrimination.. The FRA report is based on a sample of 9,604 people in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany ...

Aug 26, 2024 · "Getting a gun legally in Europe may be hard, but terrorists have little trouble," read a Washington Post headline back in February 2015, after the attacks on a Copenhagen shopping centre, the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, and the Bataclan nightclub. For the latter attack, the terrorists acquired an arsenal of weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles and Zastava M-70 rifles ...

Alexander Klaskovsky (b. 1958) is a Belarusian journalist, political observer, and head of analytical projects at the BelaPAN news agency. He regularly contributes to the Belarusian independent news media Pozirk.