Perspective

An internationally renowned French journalist has spoken to FRANCE 24 about her mission to ensure journalists keep covering the reality of people's lives once the guns of war have stopped firing. Anne Poiret, the founder of After War, also has two documentaries that have been released recently, and she spoke to us about both of them. "Les fantômes de l'Ukraine", or "Ghosts of Ukraine", speaks to the wives, daughters and mothers of men who have gone missing during the war in Ukraine. On the day that Iraq votes in parliamentary elections, she also told us about her documentary "L'Irak sous Emprise" or "Iraq, Land of Factions". Poiret joined us in Perspective.

The head of the World Wide Fund for Nature France has told FRANCE 24 that the world needs action and implementation as world leaders meet in Brazil to decide how to combat climate change. The COP30 summit is getting underway 10 years after the landmark Paris Agreement was signed. Véronique Andrieux says we have to move further away from fossil fuels and towards more energy efficiency.

One of the world's leading authors, known for his work on African Americans and White supremacy, has spoken to FRANCE 24 as his latest book "The Message" has been translated for the first time into French as "Le Message". Ta-Nehisi Coates is known worldwide as a progressive American author, journalist and activist. He told us he just thinks of himself as a nice guy, and that sometimes he wishes he didn't have to get involved in what he does. He spoke to us in Perspective.

A Parisian artist, who has roots in both Africa and the Caribbean, has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how as a child she could not even dream of her work being on display in a gallery in the city. Roxane Mbanga's exhibition sees her reconstruct the rooms of her dream house. She's done that by weaving together the threads of her heritage from Guadeloupe, Cameroon and the Ivory Coast. She says her work focuses on Black women and their "different perspective". Mbanga spoke to us in Perspective.

Some of the leading figures behind the trial of a huge multinational getting underway in Paris have spoken to FRANCE 24 about how the French cement company Lafarge put its own economic interests above any other considerations. Lafarge stands accused of making payments to the Islamic State group and other terrorist groups in northern Syria to keep its cement factory operating and protected during the country's civil war.

The director general of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has spoken to FRANCE 24 about the "series of crises" affecting journalism. Thibaut Bruttin hit out at the "return of violence against journalists" and the "erosion of support" for the protection of journalism. Bruttin was speaking to us to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. This year, his organisation is unveiling what it calls a list of 34 "press freedom predators" who attacked journalists and the right to information in 2025.

An award-winning author has spoken of her verse novel which centres around the lives and traditions of her own Sami people. The Sami are indigenous to northern Scandinavia, including Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. Linnea Axelsson's book "Aednan: An Epic", or "Aednan - Terre-Mère" in French, tells the story of two families. It won Sweden's most prestigious literary award, the August prize. She is in Paris for an evening of poetry being held at the Swedish Institute and spoke to us in Perspective.

The authors of a new book on a murder mystery that has gripped political life in France and Morocco for 60 years have spoken to FRANCE 24 about their discoveries. The disappearance of Moroccan opposition politician Medhi Ben Barka from the streets of Paris exactly 60 years ago, just a day before he'd been due to be received at the French President's Élysée Palace, shocked both countries. Since then, a thousand possible theories about what happened have emerged, some involving the Israeli secret service Mossad and even the CIA. Ronen Bergman and Stephen Smith spoke to us in Perspective about their book "L’Affaire Ben Barka", or the "Ben Barka Affair".

A leading campaigner for women's and girls' rights in Afghanistan says the recent cutting off of the internet in the country led many women there to "completely" lose hope for the future. Mursal Sayas says that "every day" the situation for women gets "worse and worse", with more and more restrictions. She says that Afghan women knew it would be this way when the Taliban returned to power just over four years ago. Sayas, who is an Afghan writer, journalist and founder of the association Women Beyond Borders, spoke to us in Perspective.

A new exhibition here in Paris is exploring the talents of a man deemed one of the greats of French photography. Luc Delahaye worked in the 1990s covering major conflicts as a photojournalist including Afghanistan, Rwanda, Bosnia, the Gulf, Chechnya and Lebanon. Yet afterwards he decided he wanted to turn his attention more to art as he tried to explore new formats in his desire to produce larger images. "Luc Delahaye – Le bruit du Monde" or "The noise of the world" is on at the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris's Tuileries gardens. We spoke to the exhibition's curator Quentin Bajac in Perspective.