Read in English Il reste deux ans et 26 jours aux gouvernements pour atteindre les objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement (OMD), fixés en 2000 par l’ONU, en réponse aux grandes  déclarations en faveur de l’amélioration de la condition humaine. Moyennant un effort supplémentaire, plusieurs objectifs pourraient être atteints alors que pour d’autres, un urgent besoin de […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed French President François Hollande’s remarks condemning yesterday’s shooting at the Paris office of the newspaper Libération as an attack on freedom of the press. News reports said that Hollande, in a televised statement yesterday from Jerusalem, directed Interior Minister Manuel Valls to use all means to find the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned attacks yesterday on the offices of Turkish-language newspaper Zaman in Paris and in the German city of Cologne allegedly carried out by supporters of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Zaman reported that a group of nearly 15 PKK supporters wearing masks entered its Paris office and threatened […]

Gérard Davet, an investigative journalist with French daily newspaper Le Monde, is currently at the centre of a scandal that has led to criminal charges against the head of the country’s domestic intelligence agency for allegedly misusing security services to uncover Davet’s sources. Davet – who uncovered allegations that L’Oreal heiress and billionaire Liliane Bettencourt […]