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‘Not a problem of short-term solutions’: French students demand structural change, better conditions

Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Gökçe Tuncel, Sociologist and post-doctoral researcher associated with the Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. What began as a protest over missing teachers and inadequate resources at a high school in Créteil has rapidly evolved into a wider mobilization challenging structural inequalities within France’s public education system. “This is not a problem of short-term solutions. This is a structural problem that they are denouncing, and their demands are structural changes,” explain

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Cornell University: Students Seek Justice in Collective Rape Case

At the U.S. University in Cornell, students organize a peaceful sit-in to seek justice after the alleged gang rape of a student, who claims to have been raped for seven hours by seven men. The students have been sitting in the university's refectory for several hours, denouncing the institution's management of the case and calling for greater transparency and action against sexual violence on campus.

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Brazil: "The two candidates are more likely to be elbow-to-neck in the first round"

Frédéric Louault, director of the Centre d'études des Amériques at the Université libre de Bruxelles, was the guest of France 24 on Sunday, October 4. He returned to the presidential election in Brazil, the first round of which took place on Sunday. According to him, there is "a greater chance that the two candidates will be on their elbows in the first round, around 45% of the valid votes, and that everything will be played in three weeks in a second round".

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Robert Malley: "The Oslo process was an illusion because it was based on a historical misunderstanding"

Robert Malley, a researcher at Yale University, is former adviser to Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden on the Middle East. As a key negotiator for the Iranian nuclear agreement, he also participated in crucial phases of the Middle East peace process. In his book "Tomorrow is Yesterday" co-written with Hussein Agha (Max Milo editions), he delivers his reflections on 30 years of failure of the peace process and imagines how to rethink peace in the region.