Benoît Collet

Benoît Collet is a French freelance journalist. He writes for various media outlets on environmental and socio-economic issues. He is particularly interested in agriculture, industrial pollution, local environmental struggles and alternatives, as well as social inequalities.

Twitter : @benoitcollet1

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The cultural genocide committed against the Yenish people in Switzerland is a crime that remains unpunished

27 January 2023

Human rights

The cultural genocide committed against the Yenish people in Switzerland is a crime that remains unpunished

From 1926 to 1972, Pro Juventute, a private foundation, forcibly separated 600 Yenish children from their parents with the backing of the Swiss [...]Read the full article

“Poor people have a right to eat well”: towards quality, locally grown food aid in France

12 June 2021

Politics & economy

“Poor people have a right to eat well”: towards quality, locally grown food aid in France

Faced with mounting poverty, local officials in France are subsidising food aid associations on the condition that they get their supplies from [...]Read the full article

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