A Ph.D. student at Michigan State University said his mother was arrested in Bangladesh after he criticized the country’s government in a Facebook post.
A Ph.D. student at Michigan State University said his mother was arrested in Bangladesh after he criticized the country’s government in a Facebook post.
South America and Africa aren’t the first places you think about when someone mentions freedom of the press. France is the “country of human rights”, it should be top 10, and it’s not even top 10 in Europe.
Maybe you’re just a bigot.
Costa Rica is in Central America.
Namibia consistently ranks as the top country in Africa regarding press freedom and has been a stable democracy ever since being freed from colonial rule by South Africa.
(South Africa had a mandate over Namibia I mean, the Apartheid fucks attempted to implement Apartheid there, not free the country).
There’s still issues with women’s rights and those of sexual minorities, as well as various indigenous groups being marginalised and having poor socio-economic status (notably San) but overall that’s more of a function of where the country came from, and not where it’s going.
You should be exactly as ashamed of being behind Namibia in press freedom as you’re ashamed of being behind Germany. Also, that your former colonies fare much, much worse. Git gud. And you can find solace in the fact that the UK ranks below you.
Thank you, that guy is so bigoted he didn’t realize I was calling him out.
France is one of the main reasons Latin American and African countries are in the positions they’re in… I don’t see how France could be the “country of human rights”
I had the same reaction to that comment.
Not if you’re absorbed in snooty eurocentric self righteousness they’re not
There has literally never been a single moment in history when this was even remotely true. France has done more harm to humanity than nearly any other civilization in recorded history.
French politicians and journalists often refer to France this way. Of course, it’s not true, especially considering the number of times it was sentenced by the European court of human rights.