Legal experts of a U.N. environmental convention decided on Wednesday to consider a case brought by members of the public ...

At first, Sylvain Burquier thought it was a joke. It was August 2019, and Burquier and his two children were at their home in Paris’s Ninth Arrondissement, off the right bank of the River Seine, when ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Yale political scientist Hélène Landemore to the governance committee overseeing a citizens’ convention that will reconsider France’s laws on assisted ...

A citizens’ convention made up of randomly selected members of the French public voted Feb. 19 in favor of legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide, including for minors, preparing the way for the ...

This month 150 randomly-chosen French citizens will debate whether or not to adopt legislation that will legalize “assisted dying” as part of President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to move forward on ...

France and Taiwan on Thursday signed a wide-ranging agreement to enable their film and TV industries co-operate on a higher level. At a signing ceremony in Taipei at the Taiwan Creative Culture Fest ...

Amend paragraph 1 to read as follows: "1. The Contracting States shall not impose penalties, on account of his illegal entry or presence, on a refugee coming direct from his country of origin, who ...

Considering that in all that concerns respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms no discrimination was established by the United Nations between human beings, either in the Charter of the ...