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France 24
5 days ago
- Health
- France 24
Fighting for their fair share: How to boost economic empowerment for African women
Gender equality remains a challenge across the globe and particularly in Africa. Despite progress, women continue to face persistent barriers on the continent: limited access to education, inequalities in healthcare, difficulties in obtaining financing and underrepresentation in decision-making positions. To help change that, former French Minister Élisabeth Moreno co-founded ADWIN alongside George-Axelle Broussillon Matschinga and Prescillia Avenel Delpha. It's an international network dedicated to the promotion and empowerment of African and Afro-descendant women through training, mentorship, financing, and well-being. Moreno spoke to us in People & Profit.
Euronews
02-06-2025
- Politics
- Euronews
Venezuela warns citizens not to travel to US
The Venezuelan government has told its citizens to avoid travelling to the US, while urging those living there to leave immediately. In a travel alert issued via a Telegram video on Sunday, the Venezuelan foreign ministry urged its compatriots to "protect their lives and those of their families and return to their homeland". It described the US as a "dangerous country where human rights do not exist for immigrants". "There is no American dream there, only nightmares. Our duty is to denounce this reality and demand respect for our compatriots," the ministry said. Foreign Minister Yván Gil claimed that it was dangerous to be a Latino, Afro-descendant or Venezuelan migrant in the US. "The police shoot first and ask questions later," he said. As evidence of the US' persecution of migrants, Caracas cited the case of hundreds of migrants who were deported to a maximum security prison in El Salvador earlier this year. Venezuela says the deportees are living "under inhumane conditions" and are being "subjected to psychological torture". Caracas' travel warning comes after the US government issued its own alert last Tuesday, urging its citizens not to travel to Venezuela for any reason and to leave the country immediately because of the high risk of arbitrary detention. In a statement, the US State Department said there were "serious risks" of unjust detentions, violent crime and civil unrest in the Latin American country. According to the official note, Venezuela is the country with the highest number of unjustly detained US citizens. The US does not have an embassy or consulate in Venezuela, so it cannot offer consular assistance to its citizens there. Last year, Venezuela's authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro cracked down on mass protests following a disputed election victory, with international experts accusing his administration of widespread human rights abuses.
