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ENTRETIEN - Les débats sur la fin de vie reviennent cette semaine dans l’Hémicycle, mais, pour l’artisan de deux lois sur le sujet, les parlementaires font fausse route. L’urgence des soins palliatifs est contournée, et les députés s’apprêtent à voter un texte sans garde-fous suffisants.

Les récentes contre-offensives ukrainiennes ont permis la reprise de plusieurs localités dans l’est du pays, offrant à Kyiv un succès à forte portée symbolique alors qu’un nouveau cycle de négociations s’ouvre avec la Russie et les États-Unis.

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Deal strengthens efforts to build end-to-end model deployment capacity

The gains are unlikely to force Russia to give up its maximalist demands

INFO LE FIGARO - Plusieurs hauts gradés du cabinet présidentiel sont cités pour des postes extérieurs au Palais, à commencer par le secrétaire général Emmanuel Moulin. Des mouvements annoncés sur fond de critiques contre les recasages de proches du chef de l’État.

Brussels bets on science to strengthen future pandemic preparedness

Women perform a disproportionate amount of unpaid labor, hindering their ability to build assets or advance careers. Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS

By Joseph Chamie
PORTLAND, USA, Feb 17 2026 (IPS)

The global struggle for equality for women and girls has been ongoing for centuries, with no single country having achieved full equality. In many countries, women and girls continue to face discrimination, harassment, unequal treatment, injustice, domestic violence, and a lack of security and safety.

One of the primary goals of this struggle is to dismantle systemic discrimination and secure basic human rights for women and girls. These rights include economic freedom, social independence, voting power, and bodily autonomy.

Discrimination, harassment, lack of rights, limited healthcare, unequal access to resources, education and political power, high rates of violence, forced marriages, and cultural preferences for male children all contribute to the unequal treatment of girls and women

While some progress has been made, the current global situation regarding women’s equality remains concerning. Many women and girls still struggle for their lives, their rights and their dignity.

It wasn’t until the beginning of the 20th century that countries began passing legislation to ensure women the right to vote and stand for election. The first country to permit women to vote was New Zealand in 1893. Approximately a decade later, Australia, Finland, Denmark and Iceland followed suit.

By the middle of the 20th century, more than half of all countries had granted women the right to vote and today, none of the world’s nearly 200 countries bar women from voting. However, some countries effectively or practically deny women this right through the absence of elections or restrictive regimes.

National surveys across different regions of the world find large majorities of the public supporting women’s equality and saying it is very important for women in their country to have the same rights as men. The majority of the public supporting women’s equality varies from highs of 90 percent or more in countries such as Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom to lows of approximately 55 percent in Kenya, Russia and South Korea.

In contrast, a minority of misogynists consider women inferior to men. This minority often treats women as their personal property, denying them control over their lives and bodies. They restrict women’s political, social and economic rights, and frequently ridicule, intimidate and physically abuse them.

Various indexes and metrics have been used to measure the extent and progress of women’s equality among countries. For example, the Women, Peace and Security Index, based on thirteen indicators of women’s status in 181 countries, focuses on inclusion, justice, rights, security, and safety.

The top five countries that rank high on the Women, Peace and Security Index are Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Together, these five countries account for approximately 0.3% of the world’s female population. European countries hold nine of the top ten rankings on the index, with the Nordic countries consistently ranking in the top ten for many years.

In contrast, the five bottom countries that rank low on this index are Afghanistan, Yemen, Central African Republic, Syria, and Sudan. Among the ten lowest ranked countries on the index, only one country, Haiti, is not in Africa or Asia (Table 1).

Source: Women, Peace and Security Index.

It is noteworthy that the ten countries with the largest economies are not among the top ranked countries on the index. Among these ten countries, Canada and Germany have the highest rankings of 16 and 21, respectively. In contrast, China and India, which each have about 17% of the world’s female population, are ranked significantly lower on this index, with scores of 89 and 131, respectively.

Another metric used to assess countries’ progress in achieving women’s equality is the United Nations Gender Inequality Index (GII). The GII is a composite metric that measures maternal mortality, teen births, secondary education attainment, share of parliamentary seats, and labor market participation.

No single country has achieved full equality, with women still facing the threat of discrimination, harassment, and gender-based violence. In many developing countries, women and girls continue to experience serious injustices, including forced marriage, and high levels of domestic and sexual violence.

According to the GII, the five countries with the highest ranking in terms of women’s equality are Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Conversely, the five countries with the lowest ranking on the GII are Yemen, Nigeria, Somalia, Chad and Afghanistan. Other rankings, such as the Gender Gap Index of the World Economic Forum and the Best Countries of U.S. News, also produced similar rankings of countries with the highest and lowest levels of women’s equality.

Various factors contribute to the lack of women’s equality and discrimination against women and girls. Notable among these factors are restrictive laws, discriminatory norms, cultural stereotypes, violence risks, and unequal education that value men and boys over women and girls. These misogynistic barriers are reinforced by unconscious bias, weak policy enforcement, economic disparities, and structural disadvantages (Table 2).

Source: Amnesty International.

Men and boys are often given more education, power, resources and opportunities than women and girls. Additionally, traditional or religious norms typically depict males as dominant and females as subordinate. While these norms generally affirm the spiritual equality of men and women, they often perpetuate social and institutional inequality on Earth due to traditional interpretations of sacred religious texts.

Discrimination, harassment, lack of rights, limited healthcare, unequal access to resources, education and political power, high rates of violence, forced marriages, and cultural preferences for male children all contribute to the unequal treatment of girls and women.

Moreover, women also perform a disproportionate amount of unpaid labor, hindering their ability to build assets or advance careers. They face lower pay for equal work and are often concentrated in lower-paying occupations. In many countries, women also have restricted access to land ownership, credit, financial services, and unequal legal protection.

Humanitarian crises, climate change, and pandemics have a tendency to disproportionately affect women, exacerbating existing inequalities. Fragile states and those experiencing conflict also tend to rank poorly in terms of women’s equality.

Women’s inequality also varies within countries. For example, while women make up 50% of the U.S. population, women ‘s inequality persists across social, economic, and political sectors. According to 17 various key indicators of women’s equality in the U.S., one study found that the top five states are Hawaii, Nevada, Maryland, Maine, and Oregon, while the bottom five states are Utah, Texas, Idaho, Arkansas, and Louisiana (Table 3).

Source: WalletHub.

There are only about five years left for the world to fulfill the promises made to girls and women for gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Realizing gender equality is not only the right thing to do, but it is vital for sustainable development.

Women’s equality is a fundamental human right and a foundation for a peaceful and sustainable world. Progress has been achieved over the last several decades. However, the world is not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030.

During the remaining years, eleven of the biggest challenges have been identified and need to be addressed in order to advance women’s equality. These challenges include discrimination, inequalities, inadequate access to education and healthcare, lack of women in political leadership, violence against women and girls, poverty, and lack of economic opportunities (Table 4).

 

Source: UN Women.

Women and girls face discrimination that hinders their access to education, employment, healthcare, and legal protections. Treating women unfairly and depriving them of their basic human rights leads to the creation of unjust societies.

Approximately 1 in 3 women – estimated at 840 million globally – have experienced partner or sexual violence in their lifetime. In the last 12 months alone, 316 million women –which is 11% of those aged 15 or older – were subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner.

Major factors contributing to the lack of women’s equality include restrictive laws, discriminatory norms, cultural stereotypes, violence and safety risks, weak enforcement policies, unequal education, economic disparities, inadequate healthcare, lack of political representation, employment segregation, pay gap, unpaid care burden, and unequal household responsibilities.

Achieving women’s equality requires a multi-faceted approach. This includes ensuring their basic human rights, enforcing legal protections against discrimination and violence, ensuring equal pay, education access, economic empowerment, and opportunities, promoting women in leadership roles, dismantling misogynistic stereotypes, advancing inclusive policies, supporting women-led institutions, and encouraging shared domestic responsibility.

Additionally, this multi-faceted approach involves promoting proactive efforts by governments, non-governmental institutions, businesses, schools, community organizations, families, and individuals to ensure equal opportunities, freedom from violence, and fundamental human rights for women and girls.

Joseph Chamie is an independent consulting demographer and former director of the United Nations Population Division.

 

Vivre sur l’eau : c’est toute la singularité des habitants de Ganvié, au Bénin. Dans cette cité lacustre surnommée la « Venise africaine », il existe un lieu bien connu : le canal des amoureux. Au fil des années, cette voie d'eau est devenue un endroit prisé pour trouver l’âme sœur.

Newly emerged reports claim a mixed squadron with Ukrainian, U.S. and Dutch pilots is flying combat missions on Ukrainian F-16s. New reports which are quickly going viral claim that Ukraine has stood up a new mixed squadron with Ukrainian, U.S. and Dutch pilots flying combat missions together un the country’s F-16s. The reports, which we […]

L’UE pourrait instaurer une interdiction complète des services maritimes aux pétroliers russes sans l’appui du G7, a affirmé le commissaire européen à l’Économie, Valdis Dombrovskis. Une déclaration qui semble contredire des indications antérieures selon lesquelles cette mesure serait adoptée uniquement en coordination avec les partenaires occidentaux.

The post L’UE prête à interdire les services maritimes aux pétroliers russes, même sans le G7, affirme le commissaire à l’Économie appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Au deuxième jour de son procès, Naps a succinctement donné sa version des faits mardi, devant la cour criminelle de Paris, avant son interrogatoire prévu mercredi. Le rappeur marseillais, notammment connu pour sa musique "La Kiffance", est accusé d'avoir violé une jeune femme endormie dans une chambre d'hôtel en octobre 2021. "Tous les signaux me disaient que c'était cool", a-t-il partagé à la barre.

L'impact de la politique de Donald Trump s’étend sur les États européens. En Grèce, un bras de fer est en marche entre les États et la Chine pour mettre la main sur les infrastructures portuaires alors que le port du Pirée est sous contrôle chinois depuis 2016.

Lors d’une conférence de presse donnée le 13 février, le vice-ministre polonais de la Défense, Cezary Tomczyk a affirmé que l’Allemagne envisageait d’acquérir des missiles antiaériens portatifs Pioriun [de type MANPADS – MAN-Portable Air-Defense System]. « Nous pouvons nous en réjouir car cela témoigne de l’influence des innovations de l’industrie de défense polonaise sur notre image...

Cet article Le ministère des Armées s’intéresserait au missile antiaérien portatif polonais Piorun est apparu en premier sur Zone Militaire.

L’Association Sentinelles de la bonne gouvernance pour le progrès social (SBG ASBL) a invité, lundi 16 février, le gouvernement congolais à intégrer le front social dans la stratégie nationale de lutte contre la crise dans l’Est du pays.

Au cours d’un forum organisé à Kinshasa, cette structure a qualifié ce plaidoyer de tournant important pour la stabilité nationale.

Après sept années de sécheresse, les fortes précipitations des dernières semaines sont salvatrices pour l’agriculture marocaine, particulièrement pour les cultures pluviales comme les céréales. Un excès de pluie pourrait toutefois être destructeur.

Les États membres de l’UE peineront à faire face à l’augmentation rapide des températures sur le continent et à la multiplication des catastrophes naturelles qui en découle — incendies, inondations, tempêtes — faute de plans d’adaptation coordonnés à l’échelle européenne, ont averti des experts de l’UE.

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The EDPS renews its call to add extra safeguards against indiscriminate chat-scanning in planned extension to temporary rules

A Turret from a Tank in Ukraine rests in the soil after a likely catastrophic explosion in the hull and ejection of the turret some distance from the wreck. Tank numbers declined greatly since 2022.

The tactical engineering of a new energy based sanctions regime has rapidly weakened the adversaries of the West in recent weeks. The placing of Venezuela’s oil and gas into the realm of Western control has enabled large shifts in policy that has had a great impact on not only Latin America, but also in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and even in North America itself.

The United States has finally placed the importance of trade and security relations with India at the forefront of the West’s foreign policy initiatives. India’s natural state has always been toward a Western democratic orientation, a position that has been ignored by their natural allies in the West since shortly after the Second World War. India as a major non-aligned nation has always has a tremendous amount of leverage in their region, but were neglected by Western military support for the last 70 years. Military support for India’s adversaries over that time lead India toward sourcing defense equipment from the Soviet Union, Russia, and France while becoming one the largest economies in the world with what will be the largest population in a few years time, all existing under a democratic system. India will be the key to peace and influence in Asia over the next 10 years and beyond, from the Caspian to the Pacific, India is the most important future ally of the West.

The offer of Venezuelan and other oil and gas to India in order to displace Russian oil in their economy is one of the truly concrete steps required towards ending the war in Ukraine. The removal of tariffs, expansion of Western arms sales, and a boost to trade and economic ties by linking Indian interests to the West is how you sufficiently increase the pressure to end the war in Ukraine, and curb the likelihood or conflict in other regions. While European allies of Ukraine made ways to purchase Russian oil since 2022 while claiming crippling sanctions on Russia, India took to openly purchasing low cost oil and gas from Russia in order to benefit their own economy and keep India strong against adversaries in the region. Since India largely depends on Russian weapons systems, even manufacturing much of it inside of India itself, India’s best interests did not always lay with the West, but in defending itself from Pakistan and China and protecting its own territory and citizens. India would never end the purchase of low cost energy, as India is responsible to its own economy and people, needing a good alternative with secure benefits to change their policy. Placing India under the West’s energy umbrella can end the war in Ukraine by choking off funds to Russia, a sanction that will have a real effect on tank production for the Russian Armed Forces in a region where most of their military vehicles have already been destroyed.

India was always key to Russia and Iran as Russia relies on India’s economy for its exports. To reach India, the route from Russia through the Caspian Sea and onwards through Iran and to the sea towards India kept both Russia and Iran’s economy buoyant with a huge Indian market available for their products. Displacing this trade rapidly, along with India’s energy needs, both removes large source of revenue that funds Russia’s war and cuts funding Russia has in supporting Iran’s regime. Terror weapons like drones that murder Ukrainians are meant to have the effect that Iran’s regime has on its own people, removing pure terror threats from the world while benefitting India against their own threats is what the world needed since 2022, and the people of Iran needed since 1979.

With the energy supply changing regimes in Venezuela, Cuba and Iran, the focus on limiting China from erupting into conflict with India and Taiwan will become the main policy goal over the next decade. Relations with Saudi Arabia and Gulf Oil states, along with a reliable supply of Venezuelan oil, may lead China to tie itself further towards Western interests and keep their trade based economy running, a great alternative to keeping Taiwan as a target of interest for the ruling party elites. Managing India-China relations while China is descending and India is ascending will force other world powers to take a side when conflicts ignite, managing outbreaks between India, China and China’s allies when they will surely erupt. The slow and methodical challenge to China’s influence may gain greater scrutiny as labs and agents pop up in the West and the US and US allies are challenged into full support.

Past actions from US allies in enabling the funding of Russia’s military by the non-displacement of oil sales may have been the norm under the last US administration, but should be considered as a violation of NATO support in 2026. Ignoring terror incidents against Western citizens, enabling threats and corruption by Russia, China and Iran over Western democracies, and ignoring security obligations that affect their Western citizens and those of their allies should lead to an immediate change in Government, or expulsion from the G7. If a Western nation under NATO, the G7 or simply on the border of the United States or Europe excuses obligations with claims of lack of funds, lack of seriousness, or openly engages violent entities against the West, the information and options should be presented to their citizens so a democratic solution can be made. If a Western nation wishes to be the conduit for illicit funds, Iranian regime agents, and China’s one party state influence in their streets, they are welcome to elect to become the next Venezuela. Refusing help to allies and ignoring their own border threats is encouraging a dangerous fantasy that can only exist in a vacuum of rights and open speech. Forcing a stark choice in support of the West may be the only way their oil would get to market, as to date that strategic asset was always present and never utilised as a means to end the War in Ukraine until the recent tariffs on purchasers of Russian energy. The solution to funding Russia’s war resides in energy exports, the war could have ended years prior if the current policy came to be in 2023.

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