Tag: Human Rights
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‘You Cannot Kill the Truth. You Cannot Kill What We Are Fighting For’ – Jean Leopold Dominique
On March 5th 1986, at the Toussaint Louverture Airport, nearly 60 000 people greeted Jean and Michèle. At first sight, you would have thought he was the biggest rock star of the planet! Michael Jackson was arriving to Haiti. Jean Dominique really was the Michael Jackson of Haitian journalism.
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A Big Moment for Nadia Murad
Written by Sabine Demosthenes MONTREAL – ” Mother, mother… There’s too many of you crying. Father, father… there’s too many of you dying. We must find a way to bring some living here today.” Those are the timeless lyrics from the song “What’s Going On” from one of the greatest artists of all time, The…
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Last Christmas, I gave you my heart… Oups. Last WebSummit, I gave you my heart!
Written by Sabine Demosthenes MONTREAL – When I woke up in the morning of the last day of the greatest tech summit of all time ( I know, you’ve must be annoyed that I keep writing that sentence but it is so true), I got this song stuck in my head of Phil Collins Another…
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Is it a crime to be a journalist in 2018?
For a few months, this question has been haunting me in a way I couldn’t have imagined. Right now, in this world we are living in, is still normal that some governments or regimes consider journalism to be a crime?
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Is it the start of a new era for Nike?
What I will write in the next few sentences won’t be pleasing, but I’m always up for starting a controversial conversation that may shed light on a different perspective on a particular subject.
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I got Toronto on my mind
Written by Sabine Demosthenes I’ve still got Toronto on my mind, even after a few days back to the city of a thousand church bells, Montreal. It wasn’t my first time in the Tdot, but it was my first time alone as an adult in the city. A few days disconnecting with my usual non-orthodox…
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A prayer for Darfur
I’m asking myself this question: Why am I complaining about winter and worrying about other superficial things when I am living in a war-free country, while there could be a woman, just like me, wondering if she will breathe her last breath within the next five minutes, in somewhere like Darfur. By asking myself this…
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Haiti is not a shit holes
It’s not that often that I talk about politics but with what that person, the one representing the United States of America, said about (sorry about my language) shit holes such as Haiti is a total disgrace. Why should we all be surprised by his remarks? It’s been one year of unintelligent comments, first class…
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Angelina is walking the walk!
I’m in front of my computer screen to write what’s going on right now in my head. I close my eyes and say to myself again in 2017, women, young children and even men are victims of sexual violence around the world and especially in developing countries. I have finished watching Angelina Jolie’s speech at…