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- Abused and neglected children
- FRA, 19 September 1996. The French newspaper Le
Monde published on Wendesday the results of a study
of the National Observatory of Decentralized Social
Intervention (Observatoire National de l'Action Sociale
Décentralisée—ODAS) on maltreated children
in France.
- Unemployed actions and occupations
- Marches europeennes contre le chomage, [31 December
1997]. Throughout December, actions have escalated by the
jobless and the socially excluded in France. This has been
due to a combination of mobilisations. The overall theme was
the fight against social inequalities, particularly
pertinent at the onset of winter.
- Fearful French See Crime on the Rise
- By Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post,
Tuesday 21 August 2001. A general feeling that this country,
which prides itself on civility and culture, has become a
more violent and dangerous place. The statistics bear out
the concern.
- In a France of Rural Identities: ‘I
don't question my children's Jewishness’
- By Sylvie Braibant and Dominique Vidal, Le Monde
diplomatique, August 2002. Which aspects of Judaism
will be passed on to their children was a question that
affected all those whom we interviewed, who spent more time
at political meetings than in synagogues.
- Price to pay for ‘island of
privilege’: fenced off in France
- By Hacène Belmssous, Le Monde diplomatique,
November 2002. A new segregation of the urban landscape,
through the building of American-style gated communities
which sells the haves security against the have-nots,
creating us-and-them cities. We visited one such gated
community in the boom city of Toulouse