It will not have escaped anyone, or almost, that the world in which we live is deeply unequal, at various levels, and in various places. Not just in terms of fundamental human rights, such as freedom of thought, access to education, clean water, a healthy environment, toilets, a roof, food, and so on. Around these…
INSEE has published the results of the 2017 census of Mayotte, department and overseas region of France located in the archipelago of Comoros, between Madagascar and the African continent. It appears that population growth, already the highest in France between 2007 and 2012 (+ 2.7% per year), increased again between 2012 and 2017, at +…
Sri Lanka has lived in recent decades apart from the evolution of the modern world. Deadly civil war, equally deadly natural disasters – including the infamous tsunami that swept through the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, or recurring cyclones, monsoons, and so on. – nothing was spared him. But now, it is time to…
The eruption of Mount Agung in Bali, Indonesia forced the emergency evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. An evacuation complicated by the fact that the local airport had to be closed because of dangerous emanations of the volcano. Bali is an important tourist center for the country, and tourists are among the first evacuees,…
One in ten children in the world, 152 million childs, are victims of the scourge of child labor, said the International Labor Organization (ILO) at the opening of the Fourth World Conference on the Sustainable Eradication of Child Labor, which was taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 14 to 16 November 2017. And among…
Hurricanes, floods, droughts, extreme temperatures. A cocktail stopping net any development initiative of the poorest countries of the planet. According to the Global Climate Risk Index 2018, published by the NGO Germanwatch at the COP23 in Bonn this month, Haiti is the first victim of climate, with dramatic human and financial losses in 2016. This…
2017 is expected to be the hottest year recorded in the absence of the El Niño phenomenon, said the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Monday in a report published in Bonn, Germany, on the occasion of UN 2017 Conference on Climate Change (COP23). “The last three years have been the warmest ever and are part of…
There are scandals that make no noise. And these are usually the biggest ones. In 2016, 15,000 children died every day in the world. This represents approximately 5.6 million children for the whole year… Almost half of the population of the urban area of Paris. Or more than that of the greater Montreal urban area.…
Catalonia has just declared its independence this Friday, October 27th. In Madrid, the Spanish Senate, just after that and in retaliation, declared the tutelage of the Catalan region, by the vote of the application of Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has announced that the Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, his…
The map of the Tour de France 2018 has just been released in Paris today by its owner Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO). It will be the 105th edition. Did you know that this cycling race is the most famous in the world? Approximately 12 million people follow the race on the roadside, and up to…
