Just a few years after having crossed the threshold of 500 000 inhabitants (2010), Luxembourg has just crossed a new important demographic threshold. As of January 1, 2018, there were 602,005 inhabitants in the country, an annual increase of +1.92%. Immigration is the major source of this increase, the country welcoming more and more foreigners,…
A page has turned in Cuba. The country has just appointed a new president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, 58, replacing his predecessor Raúl Castro, 86, former brother of the famous Fidel Castro. The Castro brothers had been in power since the 1959 Revolution, which dislodged the bloody dictator Fulgencio Batista, the latter being supported by the United…
Amnesty International released its annual report on the death penalty around the world yesterday (12 April). It appears that 993 executions were recorded in 23 countries last year. This is a slight decrease of 4% compared to 2016 (1032 executions), and a very significant decline of 39% since 2015. That year, 1634 people were executed…
Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King was murdered in Memphis. He fought for human rights, including the civil rights of African Americans, but also for the rights of the poor and against the militarization of American society. The Martin Luther King Day is a holiday in the United States, and marks the anniversary of…
The American continent, which extends from Canada‘s Great North to the southernmost tip of Chile, now has more than one billion inhabitants. The Americas are a multiple continent, divided into several distinct parts, particularly between the highly developed and industrialized North, and the less developed but soon to be-developed South, as well as subregions such…
The International Francophonie Day is a worldwide celebration of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) taking place on March 20th of each year. The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie brings together 84 member and associate countries and territories. There are approximately 520 million French speakers worldwide, including more than 300 million whose mother tongue…
According to a new study based on 25 years of data from NASA and European satellites, rising sea levels are accelerating over time rather than growing at a steady pace, as previously thought. If the rate of ocean rise continues at this rate, sea levels will increase by 65 centimeters by 2100 – enough to…
Turkey has exceeded 80 million in 2017. And it is expected to reach 100 million in 2040, according to the Statistical Institute of Turkey. Istanbul, its largest urban area, has also just passed a course, that of the 15 million inhabitants. And this figure is expected to rise to 20 million in 2040. However, even…
Female genital mutilation is a violent act that, among other things, causes infection, disease, childbirth complications and death, said the Executive Directors of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in a joint statement for the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Describing FGM as “a cruel…
Children are the most vulnerable when conflict or disaster causes the collapse of essential services such as healthcare and unless the international community takes urgent action to protect and provide life-saving assistance to them, “they face an increasingly bleak future,” the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned Tuesday, launching a $3.6 billion emergency appeal. According to…
