Fabien Goa

Cette nouvelle affaire vient s'ajouter aux multiples autres déjà pendantes contre la France devant la CEDH sur le traitement judiciaire du viol & la victimisation secondaire.

Et fait écho à une récente & inédite condamnation de la France en avril dernier, pour ces mêmes motifs :

Invoquant les articles 3 et 8 de la Convention, seuls et combinés en substance avec l’article 14 de la Convention, la requérante se plaint de l’absence de respect par l’État défendeur de ses obligations positives pour protéger son intégrité physique et morale en tant que femme victime de violences fondées sur le sexe. Elle se plaint en particulier de l’absence de certains actes d’instruction et de l’absence de prise en charge adéquate en sa qualité de victime, de nature à la protéger d’une victimisation secondaire. Elle invoque notamment la réalisation d’un examen proctologique traumatisant et inutile deux ans après les faits, ainsi que l’utilisation par les juridictions internes d’informations tirées de sa vie privée et de sa correspondance (échanges de SMS avec un témoin), qui seraient sans rapport avec les faits et de nature à porter atteinte à son image, sa dignité et sa vie privée. Elle se plaint également, sous l’angle des articles 3 et 8 précités, et sous celui des articles 6 § 1 et 13 de la Convention, de l’iniquité de la procédure faute d’avoir, en tant que victime dénonçant des violences graves, bénéficié d’une « enquête complète et exhaustive » permettant de faire toute la lumière sur les faits, ainsi que du défaut de célérité de la procédure. QUESTIONS AUX PARTIES 1. L’État défendeur a-t-il respecté, dans les circonstances de l’espèce, ses obligations positives, découlant des articles 3 et 8 de la Convention, d’adopter des dispositions en matière pénale et de les appliquer en pratique au travers d’une enquête et de poursuites effectives, afin que soient incriminés et réprimés tous actes sexuels non consensuels tels que le viol (...) ? (...) 2. La requérante a-t-elle été victime, dans l’exercice de ses droits garantis par la Convention, d’une discrimination fondée sur le sexe, contraire à l’article 14 de la Convention combiné avec les articles 3 et 8 précités ?

Violences sexuelles : La France est mise en cause devant la CEDH par l'actrice Sandrine Van Roy.

Au sujet du non-lieu qui a fait suite à ses accusations de viol envers Luc Besson.

Elle critique l'enquête ineffective & sa victimisation secondaire au cours de la procédure pénale.

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UN experts urge United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.“We are concerned at the unjustified ...

As UN experts have rightly said the conduct of Palestine Action's members fails to meet any reasonable definition of terrorism. The ordinary criminal justice system can deal with their acts if needed. Proscription risks chilling and stigmatising the right to protest www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

It is moving to see thousands of people, many of them retired, gathering to protest an unjust state decision to designate Palestine Action a terrorist organisation, knowing that they faced arrest for doing so. The UK Parliament and Government should listen to them.

Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.

My latest for @globalvoices.org :
Israel’s recent demolition of Palestine’s last seed bank in Hebron is not just destruction, it’s a colonial act of erasure.

In this blog post, researcher Dan Schoolar reveals how the UK has been laying the groundwork for the establishment of its own deportation centres in the Western Balkans, most likely in Serbia.

Read it here: borderviolence.eu/blog/no-rwan...

Editing: Emilija Krivosic
Graphic design: Marlene Janke

WHEN IS IT NOT SMALL BOATS WEEK THO??
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When is it wealth inequality week, eh?? WHEN DOES THAT COME AROUND?

Salad Days

One front page headline does 5 things at once:

(1) it takes the focus away from the the obvious: the majority of prisoners are born here.

(2) it makes something that is unrelated to migration suddenly about migration

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Caribbean LGBTQ+ activists celebrate as court strikes down colonial-era laws ‘Stride in the right direction’ as Eastern Caribbean supreme court rules St Lucia’s laws on gay sex unconstitutional

Activists have hailed a historic judgment striking down colonial-era laws that criminalised gay sex in St Lucia as a step forward for LGBTQ+ rights in the Caribbean country 👏👏 👏 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Sickening, yet fully on-brand for Starmer to recruit the editor under whose stewardship the Sun published a column calling for gunships to be deployed against drowning migrants & asylum seekers. A column the UN Human Rights Commissioner condemned as "inflammatory" & "reminiscent of Nazi propaganda"

This cannot be the new normal

The Gaza famine and genocide cannot become the new normal. The latest episode of The Fire These Times is now available everywhere.

With @ayoub.bsky.social @leilashami.bsky.social @danielvoskoboynik.bsky.social @essssraaa.bsky.social & @karena1.bsky.social

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Saudi Arabia accused of banning women’s rights activists from leaving the country Former political prisoners face lengthy travel restrictions to stop them speaking out, says human rights organisation

Saudi authorities are increasingly imposing travel bans on activists and families—a new tactic to silence dissent.

Read @tom_levitt’s @guardian piece, with comments from @LinaAlhathloul, sister of Loujain under travel ban, and links to our briefing.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The idea that permeates this government's actions - that there's a xenophobic sweetspot, a correct level of immigrant bashing that will address and resolve the right's "legitimate concerns" so that we can be one happy, multiculturalism society - is absurd and sickening.

Keir Starmer @Keir Starmer There is no place for racism in football or anywhere in society. I stand with Jess, the Lionesses, and any players who have suffered racism, on and off the pitch.

We're taking action to stop migrants working illegally as food delivery drivers. DELIVERED BY WHO? Our new agreement means the government will share asylum accommodation locations with Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats. So they'll know if riders are staying there and can take action.

Just a few says ago, the Prime Minister was decrying the racial abuse of England players.

Today, though, he's stirring fear and resentment towards migrants, as though this kind of officially sanctioned xenophobia doesn't contribute to the climate in which black Britains face increased racism.

Regardless of its awful moral and political content, the scale of professional deformation, isolation and myopia required to think that the libidinal bloodlust of far right protestors, journalists and politicians can be placated by minor tweaks to labour regulations is truly staggering.

“I debated Mehdi Hasan and got fired for it” is going to turn into a viable grift for several of these fascist douchebags.

This is why you don’t platform fascists.

Notice the blend of extreme right and entirely mainstreamed language. "Racial terrorism" sits comfortably alongside "open borders" - a term now used regularly by Keir Starmer - and "its not racist to..." - an echo of the "legitimate concerns" cliché Goodwin helped popularise in the 2010s

#OtD 17 Jul 2014 Eric Garner, an unarmed Black man, was choked to death by white NYPD officers while arresting him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. The event sparked protests across the US as part of the #BlackLivesMatter movement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8896...

I realise I can probably shut up about this, but David Goodhart is still taken reasonably seriously by people who concede that Matt Goodwin has gone a bit off the rails, and as a historian of contemporary Britain who writes about race and identity it is simply infuriating that he gets away with it

aha having now seen the Ian Wright reference with my own eyes, it is extraordinary that Goodhart -- a man who has clearly never actually watched a football match -- didn't think hang on, maybe I should just google "when did Ian Wright retire"

Louis Mosley

Tatler profiled Louis Mosley, Oswald Mosley's grandson and the CEO of Palantir UK. They describe Palantir as a "sleek software company"

We're way beyond the populist hype at this point. Fascism is quickly being normalised in mainstream UK publications. Tatler is a staple of British 'high society.'

Mosley

Tatler's profile of the Mitford family includes the line "Sir Oswald and Diana Mosley, became key figures in Britain’s far-right political movement in the 1930s" but makes no mention of the name of Mosley's party, the British Union of Fascists.

www.tatler.com/gallery/most...

Kevin Okoth · The Pessimist’s Optimist: Beyond the Postcolony Achille Mbembe is the pessimist’s optimist: he delivers a devastating analysis of the contemporary moment while never...

‘Achille Mbembe warns us that the condition of the colonies is rapidly becoming the condition of all of subaltern humanity.’

Kevin Okoth on the post-colonial theorist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Also the Home Office's own research undermines this "pull factor" stuff

From 2020 (disclosed 2022): freemovement.org.uk/home-office-...

From 2022 (published 2025): www.gov.uk/government/p...

Man Utd Women have been left to rot by Sir Jim Ratcliffe The WSL team have several 'huge holes' to fill - he should be ashamed of himself

A column with an awkward question for Manchester United - do you really care enough about your women’s team?

inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

UK: Government’s unchecked use of tech and AI systems leading to exclusion of people with disabilities and other marginalized groups People with disabilities, those living in poverty or who have serious health conditions are being left in a bureaucratic limbo due to digital exclusion caused by the Department of Work and Pensions’ (...

New Report: Amnesty Tech’s Algorithmic Accountability Lab have launched a new research report today, ‘Too Much Technology, Not Enough Empathy’: How the UK’s push to digitalize social security harms human rights.

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

It was a Labour government that passed the most racist piece of immigration legislation in 1968 designed to shut us out from the wealth we had built. So this is not a marginal/right-wing phenomenon.

tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/the-...

"Commonwealth" immigrants arriving in the 50s and 60s were treated as illegitimate interlopers in the UK despite the fact that our families had lived under British rule for centuries. And it goes on to this day. The utter shamelessness never fails to astonish.

The process of colonial theft doesn't end when you finish extracting people's wealth and resources on their soil at gunpoint. It continues when you then deploy violent borders to shut out people from those countries so you can keep the proceeds of that theft for yourselves