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Interview With Alice Miller About Child Mistreatment

Interview With Alice Miller About Child Mistreatment

Alice Miller received her PhD at the University of Basle and worked as a psychotherapist in Zurich for 20 years. In 1980, she decided to dedicate herself completely to her research on childhood and its tragic influence on the adult’s life. Ever (...)

15 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | bubul01

Law School Buys Naming Rights to Minor League Stadium

Law School Buys Naming Rights to Minor League Stadium

Sure, the University of Phoenix put its name on the Cardinals dome in Glendale, but UoP advertises so much, it would be impossible to spend more than ten minutes online and not be hit with a UoP popup ad. Now, comes the illustrious Thomas M. Cooley Law (...)

24 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | SportsBiz

Najlae Lhimer, a family violence victim, falls foul of French immigration laws

Najlae Lhimer, a family violence victim, falls foul of French immigration laws

Najlae Lhimer is back in Morocco. She has been there since last weekend after French authorities deported her because she was in this country illegally. But the story of the 19-year-old isn’t a just case of illegal immigration. Instead (...)

24 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

French justice system fails in the case of Tanja Pozgaj

Tanja Pozgaj should be alive today enjoying life with her 18-month-old son Ibrahima. Instead she’s dead, murdered by her former partner, Mahamadou Doucoure; a man she had reported to the police and local authorities on several occasions as being (...)

22 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

The New Face Of Poverty In America: You Can Have A Job But Still Go Hungry

Having written early and often about the U.S.’s descent into a corporatocracy, most recently here and here, I thought that I was pretty much tapped out on the subject. But then I read an absolutely mind-blowing statistic: One of every eight (...)

15 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Shaun Mullen

A homeless Frenchman’s residence tax riddle

A homeless Frenchman's residence tax riddle

The case of a homeless Frenchman sent a demand for local residence tax. Spare a thought for Emile Busson, a Frenchman who has had problems with the tax authorities here. He recently received a demand for taxe d’habitation, or local residence tax, (...)

15 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Johnny Summerton

Female circumcision in Hadhramout

Female circumcision in Hadhramout

Though health and medical workers have been banned almost ten years ago from performing it, female cicumcision or clitoredectomy or better described as female genital mutilation, is still practiced by many in Hadhramout. From IRIN: "Nearly a decade (...)

12 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Moments In Words From Hadhramout

A French Valentine’s Day Kiss-in against homophobia

A French Valentine's Day Kiss-in against homophobia

The title pretty much says it all as once again the group Kiss-in contre l’homophobie readies itself for action - this time on Valentine’s Day. February 14 is the date set for the next Kiss-in, an event which since it was first held in (...)

9 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Johnny Summerton

A Disney disappointment for Parisian family

A Disney disappointment for Parisian family

It was supposed to have been a family treat as a group that included six adults and nine children made their way to a cinema in Paris to see a matinée performance of the latest Disney film "The Princess and the Frog". But it ended up with the (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Johnny Summerton

France - bride requests annulment minutes after marriage

France - bride requests annulment minutes after marriage

"I do" and then "I don’t" barely 10 minutes later was very much the pattern of events for a newly-wed bride in France last weekend. The wedding and almost immediate request for an annulment happened in the city of Tours in (...)

29 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

French national identity: the debate and the case of Anne Sinclair

The difficulties of "proving your Frenchness" even for the famous French. France is in the throes of a debate on national identity. At least some sectors of society and in particular politicians from the right are, with the agenda being led by the (...)

28 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

Frenchman held in UAE for bomb pleasantry

Frenchman held in UAE for bomb pleasantry

Yet another story of a French citizen falling foul of local authorities while abroad. After the case of those detained in Brazil in December for causing a disturbance on a ’plane, comes the story of Jean-Louis Lioret, who finds himself behind (...)

19 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

Downloading pornography at work not illegal - rules French Supreme Court

Downloading pornography at work not illegal - rules French Supreme Court

La Cour de Cassation in France, or the country’s Supreme court, has overturned a decision made by an industrial tribunal and an appeals courts which had both upheld the dismissal of an employee who downloaded pornographic images at work. The case (...)

12 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

Men / Women : Still far from a gender equality at work

Men / Women : Still far from a gender equality at work

The vision that men and women carry on in regards to the role of each gender would be linked to salary. This is what demonstrates and analyses Timothy Judge in a study published in September 2008 in the Journal of Applied Psychology. We already knew (...)

29 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Miss Tinguette

French tourists in Brazil plane row face bleak Christmas

French tourists in Brazil plane row face bleak Christmas

There seems to be little hope that three French citizens detained earlier this month by Brazilian authorities for causing a disturbance on a ’plane, will be home in time for Christmas. On Monday their families had hoped to have a private audience (...)

23 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Growing disquiet among French over national identity debate

Opposition as to whether there’s a need for a debate on what constitutes national identity here in France is continuing to increase, according to the latest opinion poll released in the national daily, Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France. (...)

23 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

A French town’s €4 million gift from "Mother Christmas"

A French town's €4 million gift from "Mother Christmas"

Christmas is a time of giving - something that’s drummed into many of us from an early age, although if we’re honest receiving might be much more pleasurable. Well, the town of Chalon-sur-Saône in the south of the Burgundy region of France (...)

21 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

A French man called for jury selection for his own trial

The French judicial system is a notoriously cumbersome creature and of course, as in many other countries, has been is prone to making mistakes, or at least taking a heck of a long time in admitting to, and then correcting them. Take the case of Loïc (...)

16 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Fighting homophobia - the French "kiss-in" goes international

After the success here in France of the previous kiss-in against homophobia in September, the idea is going international. At four o’clock on Saturday afternoon (December 12), couples - gay and straight - in 19 cities and towns around France are (...)

14 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Promise of a new home for French couple living in a public toilet

Promise of a new home for French couple living in a public toilet

A happy - if temporary - solution to the plight of a French couple who have spent the past year living in a public toilet. The Côte d’Azur, or French riveria as it’s often known in English, is internationally renowned as being one of those (...)

7 Dec. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

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