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With 189 days to go until the first round of the 2027 presidential election, Raphaël Glucksmann declares himself a candidate of the democratic left, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls for the abolition of Parcoursup and supports the demands of young people during a meeting in Clermont-Ferrand. #Présidentielle2027 #GaucheDémocratique #RaphaëlGlucksmann (translated)

The author said they would campaign for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty as President of Austria, arguing that no government should be able to execute people in the name of justice and that human rights were universal. https://t.co/BxyFflF9q3 #DeathPenalty #HumanRights #Abolition #AT

FRANK wrote that he wished for the success of PSPP, whom he regarded as his prime minister, whether he was a péquiste or not. He hoped that he would avoid the mistakes of the last Parti québécois government, which, according to him, had tasked Lise Payette's daughter with studying the "Quebec mystery" after being frustrated with its results in Quebec. He believed that this approach had represented the inhabitants of the capital as abnormal people and outcasts. Calling himself a conservative, FRANK indicated that he liked several measures of the péquiste program: abolishing the QST on used goods and Health Quebec, reducing bureaucracy, eliminating the Economic Development Fund, and limiting the growth of expenditures. He said he would applaud if these measures were adopted. On the other hand, he warned that he would withdraw if the government took an eco-leftist turn or stuck to péquiste symbolism, such as the oath to the king, adding that many people on the right would do the same. #Québec #politique #PQ (translated)

The author welcomed a protest by thousands of students outside the Dáil, saying they had called for the abolition of college fees, affordable student accommodation and proper funding for third-level education. They argued that the government should not put financial barriers in the way of higher and further education, and used profanity to condemn fees. https://t.co/pqQEXJRKW0 #StudentProtests #HigherEducation #AbolishFees #IE

“The Abolition of Slavery — and Its Unfinished History Slavery is far older than the transatlantic slave trade. It existed for thousands of years in societies across the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas. It was therefore not invented by Europeans or white people. But another part of the history deserves recognition. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, predominantly European and Western abolitionist movements developed sustained political campaigns against the slave trade and slavery. Britain is a major example. British abolitionists such as William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp, together with Black activists and formerly enslaved people such as Olaudah Equiano, campaigned for abolition. Parliament abolished Britain’s slave trade in 1807, and slavery throughout most of the British Empire through the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, with emancipation beginning in 1834. Britain then used its navy and diplomacy to suppress the international slave trade. Between 1808 and 1870, British naval forces seized roughly 1,400 slave ships and liberated around 160,000 enslaved people. This does not erase Britain’s earlier role in the slave trade. Nor was abolition exclusively a white achievement. Black activists, former slaves, religious groups and others were important to the movement. Nevertheless, Western societies became leading forces in creating political, legal, diplomatic and military mechanisms to suppress the Atlantic slave trade and abolish slavery. And slavery has not disappeared. The latest global estimates, based on 2021 data, put the number living in modern slavery at 49.6 million: 27.6 million in forced labour and 22 million in forced marriage. About 29.3 million were in Asia and the Pacific, 7.0 million in Africa, 6.4 million in Europe and Central Asia, 1.7 million in the Arab States and 5.1 million in the Americas. Slavery is ancient and global; Europeans became major participants in the transatlantic system and later major forces in its abolition. Yet an estimated 49.6 million people were still living in modern slavery in 2021” - ChatGPT

‼️🇫🇷 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 — La Cour de cassation REJETTE le pourvoi déposé contre la décision déclarant pénalement irresponsable Mohamed L., le meurtrier d’Alban Gervaise, médecin militaire et père de trois enfants ÉGORGÉ devant une école catholique à Marseille en 2022. Mohamed L. avait attaqué Alban Gervaise à coups de couteau, le frappant à une dizaine de reprises, notamment à la gorge. Trois expertises psychiatriques ont conclu à une abolition de son discernement au moment des faits, évoquant une « bouffée délirante aiguë ». Interné en psychiatrie en juin 2025, Mohamed L. est désormais autorisé à RENTRER CHEZ LUI le soir et le week-end depuis juin dernier, son hospitalisation ayant été allégée. Aucune mesure d’éloignement de la famille de la victime n’a été prononcée. Christelle Gervaise, veuve de la victime, contestait notamment l’absence de prise en compte de la consommation de cannabis du meurtrier et demandait une évolution de la loi sur l’irresponsabilité pénale. La Cour de cassation a également REFUSÉ de transmettre sa question prioritaire de constitutionnalité au Conseil constitutionnel. (Source : Le Figaro) #Justice #Droit #France

“The Abolition of Slavery — and Its Unfinished History Slavery is far older than the transatlantic slave trade. It existed for thousands of years in societies across the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas. It was therefore not invented by Europeans or white people. But another part of the history deserves recognition. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, predominantly European and Western abolitionist movements developed sustained political campaigns against the slave trade and slavery. Britain is a major example. British abolitionists such as William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp, together with Black activists and formerly enslaved people such as Olaudah Equiano, campaigned for abolition. Parliament abolished Britain’s slave trade in 1807, and slavery throughout most of the British Empire through the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, with emancipation beginning in 1834. Britain then used its navy and diplomacy to suppress the international slave trade. Between 1808 and 1870, British naval forces seized roughly 1,400 slave ships and liberated around 160,000 enslaved people. This does not erase Britain’s earlier role in the slave trade. Nor was abolition exclusively a white achievement. Black activists, former slaves, religious groups and others were important to the movement. Nevertheless, Western societies became leading forces in creating political, legal, diplomatic and military mechanisms to suppress the Atlantic slave trade and abolish slavery. And slavery has not disappeared. The latest global estimates, based on 2021 data, put the number living in modern slavery at 49.6 million: 27.6 million in forced labour and 22 million in forced marriage. About 29.3 million were in Asia and the Pacific, 7.0 million in Africa, 6.4 million in Europe and Central Asia, 1.7 million in the Arab States and 5.1 million in the Americas. Slavery is ancient and global; Europeans became major participants in the transatlantic system and later major forces in its abolition. Yet an estimated 49.6 million people were still living in modern slavery in 2021” - ChatGPT

Il y a 45 ans aujourd’hui, l’Assemblée nationale adoptait, par 363 voix contre 117, l’abolition de la peine de mort. Ce jour-là, la République française ne renonçait pas à punir. Elle décidait qu’il existait une limite que même l’État, même au nom de la justice, ne devait plus #AbolitionPeineDeMort #Justice #RépubliqueFrançaise #FR

Il y a 45 ans aujourd’hui, l’Assemblée nationale adoptait, par 363 voix contre 117, l’abolition de la peine de mort. Ce jour-là, la République française ne renonçait pas à punir. Elle décidait qu’il existait une limite que même l’État, même au nom de la justice, ne devait plus #PeineDeMort #Abolition #Justice #FR

Marxism: A Religion of Destruction and Resentment Marxism is not an economic theory. It is a religion for destructive and resentful losers. The *Communist Manifesto* opens with spiritual language. Marx and Engels declare that “a specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism”—and that “all the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance” to exercise this specter. Academics and useful idiots claim that the doctrine aims to redistribute wealth in order to create a more equitable world, erasing the distinction between the haves and the have-nots. It is all about love and compassion, guys. Yet, in the roughly 12,000 words of the authorized *Communist Manifesto*, Marx does not use these words of positive affirmation. “Neighbor” is not mentioned, “redistribute” does not appear, and “love” is used twice—but not in reference to loving anybody else. Now consider the opposite. “Violent” or “violence” is used seven times; “overthrow,” nine times; “radical,” fifteen times; “force,” “forced,” or “forcible,” forty-seven times; and “abolish” or “abolition,” sixty-one times. The doctrine is presented as something achieved through violence, revolution, and theft. The one place Marx gets concrete is in his list of ten measures, and every one of them involves a seizure, a confiscation, or an abolition. Of the classless heaven that is supposedly meant to follow, he says almost nothing. Rather, writing to Arnold Ruge in September 1843, Marx claims that his program is “the ruthless criticism of all that exists”—that everything is worthy of criticism—and builds his work from there. Perhaps he was echoing a line from Goethe’s *Faust* that had caught his attention: “All that exists deserves to perish,” a line spoken by a devil. This is another pattern in Marx’s thought. He is not a reformer aiming to make a tweak here or there. His language is totalizing: all, every, everything. Marxists constantly claim that real communism has never been tried. They argue that totalitarian psychopaths such as Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were merely defects or deviations. Yet their attempts to control everything, down to thought itself, echo the dogma of the *Communist Manifesto*.

On 23 August, the Int’l Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, we remember the victims and their resistance. @UNESCO’s #MoW Latin America & the Caribbean includes 18 inscriptions from 24 countries, keeping memories of slavery alive for future generations. https://t.co/olFEwYtRd3 #SlaveTrade #Abolition #UNESCO #LA #CA

23 August is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. @UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme preserves documentary evidence, safeguarding historical truth and challenging denial. Because what we choose to remember shapes the future. https://t.co/ylpLZmHtFx #SlaveTradeRemembrance #Abolition #HistoricalTruth #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Le Liban a voté l'abolition de la peine de mort, devenant ainsi le premier pays du Moyen-Orient à prendre une telle décision historique, saluée par la communauté internationale et le ministre de la Justice comme un avancement majeur pour les droits humains. #Liban #PeineDeMort #DroitsHumains

Le Liban a voté l'abolition de la peine de mort, une première au Moyen-Orient, permettant que les crimes commis avant cette loi soient punis par une peine de réclusion à perpétuité, ce qui est salué comme une avancée majeure pour les droits humains. #Liban #PeineDeMort #DroitsHumains