Tag Archives: Activist

LISTEN | Madagascar activist says new regime is worse than the last: As It Happens7:00‘New face, same dictatorship’ says Madagascar’s Gen Z activist following protestor arrests Just months after a youth-led protest forced Madagascar’s president to resign and flee the country, activists say the new regime is even worse than …

LISTEN | Full interview with Sylvie Merchant of Lakshya Trust: As It Happens6:38India’s transgender community vows to fight new bill that strips right to self-identify Seven years after India adopted legislation to protect transgender people, it has passed new amendments to scale back those rights. A new bill, passed in …

Jesse Jackson, the Martin Luther King protégé whose two bids for the U.S. presidency highlighted a lifelong fight for social and economic justice for all Americans, has died at age 84, his family ‌said in a statement on Tuesday. The family statement did not specify a cause of death. Jackson …

Brigitte Bardot, the 1960s French actress who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later an animal rights activist and far-right supporter, has died. She was 91. Bardot died on Sunday at her home in southern France, according to Bruno Jacquelin, of the Brigitte Bardot …

Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51. Wong died Friday because of an infection at …

High-profile Egyptian British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah was released on Tuesday, his family said, a day after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned him and five other prisoners. Abd el-Fattah, 43, has become Egypt’s most prominent political prisoner after spending much of his adult life in and out of detention due to his …

WARNING: This story contains a video appearing to show a shooting. New video footage appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist was killed as an Israeli settler fired toward him during a confrontation with unarmed Palestinians in the occupied West Bank last month. B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, says …

Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a leading Belarus opposition figure, was freed on Saturday after more than five years in prison, in the most significant move so far by President Alexander Lukashenko to try to ease his isolation from the West. The 46-year-old was driven across the border into Lithuania for an emotional …

Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg was deported from Israel on Tuesday, the day after the Israeli navy prevented her and a group of fellow pro-Palestinian activists from sailing to Gaza. Israeli forces seized their small aid ship, which was seeking to break a longstanding naval blockade of Gaza, and the 12-strong crew were brought to …

Federal immigration authorities arrested a Palestinian activist Saturday who played a prominent role in Columbia University’s protests against Israel, a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s pledge to detain and deport student activists. Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia until this past December, was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday …