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The front page of Mediapart features several prominent stories, including an investigation into a controversial sexual violence questionnaire for students, an analysis of the European directive on pay equality, and concerns about the legal framework for psychiatric patients in emergency rooms…
Critiques are mounting against the National Education's plan to implement an annual questionnaire on sexist and sexual violence for 11 million students, citing poor methodology, insufficient trained staff, and the risk of re-traumatizing children.
An interview with economist Séverine Lemière discusses the upcoming bill to transpose the European directive on pay transparency, suggesting France should adopt new comparison criteria to advance gender equality.
The Inspector General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty has issued urgent recommendations to end the 'arbitrary detentions' of psychiatric patients in fifteen emergency services in Paris and its suburbs, citing a lack of legal framework.
At the start of an unprecedented Republican convention in Texas, Donald Trump sought to personalize the midterm elections to mobilize his base, even promising $5,000 to all US adults if his party wins.
The Court of Justice of the Republic has registered a complaint against ministers involved in the crisis that shook the archipelago in 2024, filed by six pro-independence activists who claim they were transferred and imprisoned for purely political reasons.
France's highest criminal court has definitively rejected the request to reopen the investigation into the responsibility of the French army and political powers in one of the most traumatic episodes of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Following the revelation of images showing a municipal police officer, who is also a member of the National Rally's security detail, making racist remarks, the party announced his exclusion and the mayor suspended him. A judicial investigation had been opened earlier this year.
