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Violence against women and girls is a major public health challenges in the Region of the Americas. While preventing violence requires a multisectoral response, the health system has a critical role to play, including providing appropriate care and support to survivors of violence. One of the strengths of the health system response is its access to valuable data to monitor the response to violence, to sensitize others, and to advocate for change. Good health administrative data facilitate...
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Mose Norman, a Black registered voter, was ready to cast his ballot for presidential candidate Warren G. Harding. But when he arrived at his polling place on Election Day, Nov. 2, 1920, in the orange grove town of Ocoee, Florida, near Orlando, Norman was turned away by white election officials because of supposed unpaid poll taxes. His name and the names of hundreds of other registered Black voters had been removed from the rolls by white poll workers.
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A group of women activists is lobbying the committee to consider including in the treaty a new definition aimed at protecting women against all forms of oppression. They are advocating for a definition of this discrimination as “gender apartheid”. The idea is that it would track the definition of racial apartheid by replacing the word “race” with “gender”.
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In February 2024, the Minister of Education in Morocco unveiled plans to gradually introduce the teaching of the Berber (Amazigh) language in primary schools, marking a significant shift in educational policy. The decision responds to longstanding demands from linguistic activists, underscoring the growing momentum behind efforts to preserve the language and culture of Morocco's indigenous communities.
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L'archidiocèse de Saint-Jean à Terre-Neuve devra payer 104 millions $ aux 292 victimes d'abus sexuels dont la majorité l'a été à l'orphelinat Mount Cashel.
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L'extrême droite a déjà, à plusieurs reprises, exercé le pouvoir en France, à la faveur de crises aiguës, conjuguant effondrement national, crise institutionnelle et divisions sociales et politiques. Naturellement, la droite extrême a pris, depuis deux siècles, des visages, des formes et des incarnations variées en fonction des contextes sociaux intérieurs et de la situation internationale.
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Although there is now a wide body of public information about residential schools, many people continue to have limited knowledge about them. That provides fertile ground for misinformation.
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Since the 1930s, the US federal government has made payments to victims of financial hardships and social injustices. But for those suffering from the harms of slavery, the US remains silent.
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Many victim-survivors and scholars say ‘sex slaves’ more accurately describes the abuses the women endured, but governments have been slow to change their view.
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En 10 ans à la tête de l’Inde, Narendra Modi a mis en œuvre une politique très hostile aux musulmans, qui constituent quelque 15 % de la population.
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May 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Immigration Act of 1924, which sharply cut the number of people allowed into the US.
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Indigenous people’s concerns and considerations could provide a strong basis for climate litigation in South Africa.
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Un panorama européen permet d’éclairer cette caractéristique centrale de l’indemnisation des chômeurs. Contrairement aux idées reçues, elle n’est généreuse ni en France ni chez nos voisins.
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The recent title lands agreement between British Columbia and the Haida Nation is historic and inspiring, but also long overdue in light of decades of rulings by international human rights bodies.
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Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours et le marquis de Condorcet, tous deux favorables à l’abolition de l’esclavage, soulignaient entre autres son absurdité économique.
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The Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada (LGLC) project aims to learn from the activism of the past and how the movement evolved over time by making archives of LGBTQ+ and feminist organising accessible digitally.
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Quelques historiens, et non des moindres, donnent du crédit à l’idée selon laquelle le projet nazi ne serait au fond que l’expression, certes exacerbée, de la logique de performance industrielle. Mais peut-on raisonnablement assimiler la gestion des ressources humaines dans le capitalisme à celle des victimes du nazisme dans les fours crématoires ? Parvient-on à comprendre la nature du nazisme en ne retenant que les modalités de la mise à mort et en évacuant totalement les motivations de celles-ci ?
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Aboriginal women faced covert government family-planning programs, designed ostensibly to promote “choice”, but ultimately to curb their fertility. For decades, Indigenous communities have spoken of the coercive practices of officials and medical experts around birth control and sterilisation, and how they experienced them. Now historians are finding evidence of these practices in the government’s own records from as recently as the 1960s and ‘70s.
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In recent years, controversies have erupted in the Arab world over negative portrayals of Black people. Arabic television shows have frequently ridiculed Black people with lighter skinned actors regularly appearing in blackface.
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Le génocide rwandais de 1994 a laissé des traces indélébiles. Les enfants nés de violences sexuelles et les mères ont fait preuve d'une immense force pour surmonter leur histoire de violence.
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