The 62-page report, “‘This Hell Was My Only Option’: Abuses Against Migrants and Asylum Seekers Pushed to Cross the Darién Gap,” is the first in a series of Human Rights Watch reports on migration via the Darién Gap. Human Rights Watch found that restrictions on movement from South American countries to Mexico and Central America, often promoted by the United States government, have helped contribute to sharp increases in numbers of people crossing the Darién Gap. This exposes migrants to abuses, including sexual violence, and empowers organized crime in the area.
EU’s next framework programme for research and innovation should have more funding available for basic research, says Antoine Petit, chairman and CEO of the French national centre for scientific research, CNRS. This would enale what he called “target-driven basic research” to be done jointly with industry.
Michigan State University and the French research organization, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, or CNRS, today signed an agreement to establish the International Research Laboratory on Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics during a ceremony at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at MSU.