Magda Fahsi

Magda Fahsi is a Mint Press Europe correspondent and investigative reporter based in Brussels, Belgium, specializing in human rights. She is also a cross-cultural coach lecturing about intercultural management at the Vatel International Business School, and holds a postgraduate degree in Human Rights and a Ph.D. in International Relations and Diplomacy. She has published articles on a variety of topics including European affairs, the Arab world, human rights and migration and diversity issues. You can visit her website, www.magdafahsi.eu.

How Switzerland Is Quietly Criminalizing Its Asylum Seekers

Switzerland now restricts would-be refugees as if they were illegal migrants.

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Par Magda Fahsi

This summer, in Italy, Cécile Kyenge, the country’s first Black minister, faced a barrage of insults from her fellow politicians. In the Netherlands, the social affairs minister called for a Code Orange on labor migration from Romania and Bulgaria. But the clearest and strongest signal that foreign nationals are once again under attack in Europe

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It’s Hard To Stop A Multinational Mining Operation: The Case Of Piedras, Colombia

In a referendum, locals overwhelmingly voted against a gold mine being built on their land. Will it change anything?

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Par Magda Fahsi

On Sunday, July 28, the people of Piedras, a small town in the central Colombian department of Tolima, organized a referendum over the mining company AngloGold Ashanti’s activities in the municipality. Of the more than 5,000 eligible voters, about 3,000 actually participated in the consultation. Of those, the vast majority voted against the

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What’s The Real Reason Behind The EU’s Blacklisting Of Hezbollah?

The U.S.-Israeli narrative of events in the Middle East appears to have triumphed, but is it a legitimate one?

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Par Magda Fahsi

BRUSSELS – The decision last week by the 28 EU ministers for foreign affairs to put Hezbollah on the list of ‘terrorist organizations’ did not come easy. It was only after France and Germany, who had long opposed the move, finally decided to rally to the U.K., a long-time defender of the blacklisting of the Lebanese Shia organization, that they

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Medical Neocolonialism: Big Pharma Outsources Unethical Clinical Trials To South Africa

A new report says that multinational drug companies experiment with the health and even the lives of already-vulnerable South African patients.

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Par Magda Fahsi

International pharmaceutical companies experiment with the health and even the lives of South African patients, with clinical tests often conducted in a unethical manner on patients in that country. This is the conclusion of a report on clinical tests by Wemos – a Netherlands-based non-profit organization that advocates the right to health of

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India Makes Food A Fundamental Right

The policy is the latest attempt to tackle the problem of hunger in a country where nearly half of children under five are chronically malnourished.

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Par Magda Fahsi

India’s government is embarking on one of the most ambitious programs in the world to make food a legal right. The National Food Security Bill, approved by the Indian government on July 3, is the latest attempt to tackle the problem of endemic hunger in a country where -- by the government's own estimate -- nearly half of children under five are

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Are A French Politician’s Islamophobic Remarks Protected Under Freedom Of Expression?

The European Parliament recently stripped Marine Le Pen of her immunity from prosecution for her comparison of Muslims with the NazI occupation.

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Par Magda Fahsi

“Fifteen years ago, we started seeing veils on our streets; more and more veils. Then we started seeing burqas: more and more burqas. After that came prayers in the streets […] and now there are 10 to 15 locations in which people gather, taking our public space. […] I’m sorry, but some people are very fond of talking about the Second World War and

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Obama’s Plan To End Hunger In Africa Is Really A Plan To Industrialize Agriculture

Big Ag in sub-Saharan Africa could turn the continent’s small-scale farmers into wage laborers with no say in how their land is utilized.

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Par Magda Fahsi

Last week, while touring Dakar, Senegal’s capital, President Obama touted his vision to reduce hunger in Africa. He emphasized food security, saying that far too many people on the continent endure poverty and chronic hunger while speaking of a “moral imperative” to rectify this. He also announced that Senegal had become the tenth country to join

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