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UNO-Generalsekretär Ban Ki Moon hat vor dem österreichischen Parlament die Asyplolitik des Landes scharf kritisiert, und auch Italiens Regierungschef…

Depuis quelques jours, les coupures du courant électrique sont récurrentes avec des conséquences au plan économique non négligeables. Mais qu’est-ce qui est à l’origine de cette nouvelle crise énergétique qui plonge chaque jour le pays dans l’obscurité pendant plusieurs heures ?

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DÉCRYPTAGE - Alors qu'Emmanuel Macron a lancé son mouvement politique il y a trois semaines, Manuel Valls voit jour après jour sa popularité s'effriter, dans le sillage de celle du président de la République.

Le Comité de normalisation du football béninois (Conor), 72 heures avant l’expiration de son mandat, s’est vu renouveler la confiance de la Fifa. C’est à travers sa correspondance en date du mercredi 27 avril signée de son secrétaire général par intérim, Markus Kattner.

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By Arif Azad
Apr 28 2016 (Dawn, Pakistan)

In March 2016, the EU signed a far-reaching deal with Turkey to stem the flow of migrants into their union, which has spiked since September 2015. The hastily crafted deal, criticised by the UN for its disregard for human rights safeguards, requires Turkey to accept all migrants currently stranded in Greece, in return for visa-free travel for Turkish citizens to the EU, and a hefty sum of six billion euros.

Earlier, the EU had expanded its monetary and expert support to Greece to ease its burden of hosting migrants. As part of this new deal, Greece has begun expelling migrants to Turkey, which in turn has begun housing refugees on its soil, and is preparing to expel most non-Syrian refugees. As a consequence of this policy, Pakistani migrants in Greece are at the front of the expulsion queue.

On April 4, Greece shipped around 200 migrants to Turkey, including 111 Pakistanis.

Ninety-seven deportees (mostly Pakistanis) were also expelled via land route, according to Greek police. Given the Turkish parliament`s position on the status of Pakistani migrants, our government must be prepared to receive and repatriate a new wave of migrants returning to their (apparent) home country.

This issue has been brewing for years and has been on the policy radar of EU officials who have quietly intimated the Pakistani government of the possibility of impending deportations from their territory. Last December, our government returned over 30 out of 50 deportees who arrived in Pakistan due to lack of proper documentation, the interior ministry claiming that the EU is dumping non-Pakistani deportees on our soil. The EU`s migration commissioner, Dimitris Avramopoulos, visited to resolve the issue. Yet the crisis has worsened.

The issue of Pakistani migrants in Greece, mostly without papers according to Greek authorities, has been in the spotlight since the Greek financial crisis. Greece has attracted Pakistan migrants since the 1970s; in one study by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Pakistani migrants number 40,000-50,000, although of ficial figures put the number at 15,478. The estimated 40,000-50,000 include migrants without residency documents.

Irrespective of their status, the Pakistani migrant community constitutes the largest Asian community in Greece; they have suffered the worst racist abuse and attacks in recent years, as documented in reports by various human rights groups.

The atmosphere of hostility has resulted in a huge spike in administrative expulsions by the Greek government, which peaked at 5,135 in 2012, according to Greek police.This is a huge jump from 2011, where the figure stood at 1,293 administrative expulsions.

Another category of voluntary returns includes another 6,445 migrants, according to combined figures of the International Organisation of Migration and the Greek police. Again, this represents a massive spike from 715 in 2011. Worryingly, before the deportation itself, most of these Pakistani migrants are detained in detention centres in degrading conditions. In some of these, the migrants have taken to hunger strikes to protest their conditions.

Yet this huge number of forced and voluntary repatriation has barely raised any policy ripples in Pakistan. With the new draconian EU-Turkey deal being hastily put into effect with little regard for human rights safeguards, the number of Pakistani deportees is set to rise exponentially especially given Pakistan`s agreement with Turkey to take back all the deportees and repatriate them. Yet this is not the only stream of depor-tees coming Pakistan`s way; the EU, too, is oiling up its deportation machinery.

Given growing hostility to newly arriving migrants in Europe, EU immigration policies are stiffening. One of the policy responses to the migrant issue involves voluntary or forced repatriation of failed applicants, to ease domestic opposition to growing migrant populations.

That means the rate ofasylum refusal is set to grow across the EU, resulting in a greater drive towards deportation and repatriation. With an acceptance rate of 10-50pc for Pakistani applicants, the refused applicants will be put on a fast-track deportation schedule. This will swell the already growing concourse of Pakistan deportees, bringing with it its own set of rehabilitation challenges.

Yet it seems that the Pakistani government is not fully tuned into the scale of the crisis which is slowly brewing in foreign lands but heading for its borders. The response requires energetic planning to address a range of rehabilitation, policy and human rights challenges. Not much is forthcoming on this front. The sooner this multifaceted challenge is faced head-on, the better it is for the desperate and exhausted deportees.

The writer is a development consultant and policy analyst.

This story was originally published by Dawn, Pakistan

La série Identité vous propose une plongée au coeur de la langue Igbo, dans le Sud du Nigeria. Elle est de moins en moins parlée.

Plenartagung : Wenn EU-Länder bei Gerichtsverfahren über grenzübergreifende Sorgerechtsstreitigkeiten oder Adoptionen nicht zusammenarbeiten, zahlen die Kinder den Preis der fehlenden Kooperation. So steht es in einer Entschließung, die das Parlament am Donnerstag verabschiedet hat. Die Abgeordneten fordern spezialisierte Kammern in Familiengerichten damit transnationale Fälle schneller bearbeitet werden können.

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La déclaration des biens des députés est toujours attendue par l’Autorité nationale de lutte contre la corruption (Anlc). Son rapporteur, Agapit Napoléon a apporté des clarifications sur la radio hémicycle.

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En 1903, à 27 ans, Jack London publie un roman animalier, L'Appel de la forêt . Comme dans Le Peuple de l'abîme (Phébus, 1999), récit de sa plongée dans la misère de l'East End à Londres, paru la même année, il y rend compte, mais par la fiction, d'une époque « de fer ». A travers l'histoire de Buck le (...) / Animal, Capitalisme, Culture, Amérindiens, Littérature, Livre, Personnalités, Violence, Amérique du Nord, Environnement - 2016/05

L'Art nouveau, qui naît dans le dernier tiers du XIXe siècle, est célèbre pour ses arabesques, courbes et volutes, et pour son amour des détails exotiques : des bouches de métro spectaculaires d'Hector Guimard au trait voluptueux de l'affichiste Alfons Mucha, c'est un style connu, dont l'exubérance (...) / France, Art, Culture, Histoire, Mouvement de contestation, Personnalités, Mouvement de libération - 2016/05

Megelőző jelleggel jódtablettát szedetnének a lakossággal, ami radioaktivitás ellen védi a pajzsmirigyet.

Megelőző jelleggel jódtablettát szedetnének a lakossággal, ami radioaktivitás ellen védi a pajzsmirigyet.

Der Ausschuss der Ständigen Vertreter (AStV) hat sich am 28. April 2016 im Namen des Rates auf dessen Verhandlungsposition zu einem Vorschlag für eine Verordnung über ein Programm zur Unterstützung von Strukturreformen geeinigt, das den Mitgliedstaaten bei der Umsetzung solcher Reformen helfen soll.

Das Programm soll für den Zeitraum vom 1. Januar 2017 bis zum 31. Dezember 2020 mit einer Finanzausstattung in Höhe von 142,8 Mio. € festgelegt werden.

Der AStV hat den niederländischen Vorsitz ersucht, Verhandlungen mit dem Europäischen Parlament aufzunehmen.

Ziele

Ziel des Programms ist die Förderung institutioneller, administrativer und struktureller Reformen in den Mitgliedstaaten im Hinblick auf die Verbesserung von Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, Produktivität, Wachstum, Beschäftigung, Zusammenhalt und Investitionen, insbesondere im Rahmen der wirtschaftspolitischen Steuerung, auch durch Förderung eines effizienten und wirksamen Einsatzes der EU-Fonds. Aus dem Programm sollen Maßnahmen und Tätigkeiten mit europäischem Mehrwert finanziert werden.

Finanzierung

Die Mitgliedstaaten müssten bis zum 31. Oktober jedes Kalenderjahrs einen Antrag auf finanzielle Unterstützung stellen. Die im Rahmen des Programms verfügbaren Mittel sollen von anderen technischen Unterstützungsprogrammen gemäß der Dachverordnung betreffend die Strukturfonds und den Fonds für die Entwicklung des ländlichen Raums umgelenkt werden.

Beobachtung und Durchführung

Die Kommission würde das Programm durchführen, das auf den bewährten Verfahren in Bezug auf technische Unterstützung für Zypern und Griechenland aufbauen würde. Die Kommission würde auch die Durchführung der durch das Programm finanzierten Maßnahmen beobachten.

Point de situation sur les opérations au 28 avril 2016

Police use tear gas and water canons in Istanbul to disperse demonstrators protesting the new Internet bill in February 2014. Credit: Emrah Gurel/IPS.

By Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
JOHANNESBURG, Apr 28 2016 (IPS)

Last month, after receiving threats for opposing a hydroelectric project, Berta Caceres, a Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, was murdered. A former winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize for her opposition to one of Central America’s biggest hydropower projects, Berta was shot dead in her own home.

In the same month, South African anti-mining activist, Sikhosiphi Bazooka Radebe, leader of a fiercely fought campaign to protect a pristine stretch of the Pondoland Wild Coast, was also shot dead.

Across the world, civic activists are being detained, tortured and killed. The space for citizens to organise and mobilise is being shut down; dissenting voices are being shut up. In 2015, at least 156 human rights activists were murdered. 156 that we know of.

The scale of the threat cannot be underestimated. The most recent analysis by my CIVICUS colleagues shows that, in 2015, significant violations of civic space were recorded in over 100 countries, up from 96 in 2014. People living in these countries account for roughly 86% of the world’s population. This means that 6 out of 7 people live in states where their basic rights to freedom of association, peaceful assembly and expression are being curtailed or denied. No single region stands out; truly, this is a worldwide trend, a global clampdown.

Hostility towards civil society is becoming normalised as threats emanate from an increasing range of state and non-state actors: corrupt politicians and officials, unaccountable security forces, unscrupulous businesses and religious fundamentalists.

Hostility towards civil society is becoming normalised as threats emanate from an increasing range of state and non-state actors: corrupt politicians and officials, unaccountable security forces, unscrupulous businesses and religious fundamentalists. But perhaps more worrying is the demonisation of civil society in mainstream political discourse. A recent bill in Israel, touted by its supporters as the ‘Transparency Bill’, places rigorous new disclosure demands on any Israeli non-profit organisation that receives more than 50% of its funding from “Foreign Political Entities’, in other words from foreign governments, the EU or UN. Following an escalating global trend, the bill seeks to cast Israeli CSOs as disloyal ‘foreign agents’, demanding that their public communications state the source of their funding and calling for their employees to wear distinctive tags.

In the UK recent government efforts to restrict the lobbying activities of civil society organisations prompted over 140 charities to express their concern. A proposed new grant agreement clause seeks to prevent UK charities from using their funds to enter into any dialogue with parliament, government or a political party. In India, Prime Minister Modi has cautioned his judiciary against being influenced by what he called, ‘five star activists’. Insinuating that the civil society sector is elitist and out of touch with realities on the ground, the comments lent renewed impetus to the country’s ongoing crackdown on critical civil rights activists and NGOs.

The recent proliferation of counter-terrorism measures has also served to further stigmatise and stifle the sector. By suggesting that non-profit organisations are particularly vulnerable to abuse or exploitation by terrorist groups, governments have justified new laws and regulatory restrictions on their legitimate activities and the political space they inhabit. Freedom of speech is being silenced, funding sources cut off; the effect has been debilitating.

State surveillance of online activities is also on the rise as authorities note the power of the internet and social media as a tool for citizen mobilization. Governments have woken up to the power of civil society. The deepest fear of repressive regimes is no longer necessarily the rise of new political opposition parties; it is 100,000 of their citizens taking to the streets in the pursuit of change. And so a concerted push-back has begun, an effort to tame civil society, to smother its ability to catalyse social transformation.

We need to push back on these incursions on civic space, urgently and across the world. We need to be challenging our governments over rights violations, about the murder of activists, about their progress in fighting poverty, climate change and inequality.

There is much cause for hope. Last year, a coalition of Tunisian civil society organisations won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in bringing a country back from the brink of civil war and laying the foundations of a pluralistic democracy. The latest innovations in protest and movement building, in technologies that can liberate and mobilise citizens, in citizen-generated data that can empower campaigners and increase transparency around the monitoring of our global goals: all of these signal a new era of dynamic civic activism. Over the last few days more than 500 leading activists and thinkers gathered at International Civil Society Week 2016 in Bogota, Colombia to plot civil society’s global fight-back. It is fitting that this meeting took place against a backdrop of the peace negotiations that Colombian civil society has played such a key role in making possible.

Our gathering has the potential to be a defining moment for the future of democratic struggles. There will be more setbacks, low points and sacrifices to come but the demands for change won’t go away. Nor will civil society’s ability to affect it. A new, radically different vision for the future of civic action is being formulated. And those of us who believe in a healthy, independent civil society have more responsibility than ever before to keep on making our case. Knowing the threats she faced, Berta Caceres said, ‘We must undertake the struggle in all parts of the world, wherever we may be, because we have no spare or replacement planet. We have only this one and we have to take action’. She was right.

Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah is the Secretary General of CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the position of IPS.

Chaque semaine, l'agenda européen liste les principaux événements politiques à venir. A retenir pour la semaine du 2 au 8 mai 2016 : la Commission européenne pourrait proposer d'exempter les Turcs de visas d'ici juin, la BCE pourrait mettre fin au billet de 500 euros, plusieurs élections sont prévues au Royaume-Uni et l'Europe est célébrée dans toute la France.

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Une étude d'opinion récente a montré que chez les sympathisants de gauche, c'était dans la tranche d'âge supérieure à 60 ans qu'Emmanuel Macron et son mouvement "En marche" suscitaient le maximum d'intérêt.