Full Coverage: France

07.04.2008 Security measures for the Olympic torch relay’s passage through Paris are "shameful", according to an international media freedom group.

25.03.2008 British and French leaders Gordon Brown and Nicholas Sarkozy will this week sign up to an entente atomique and herald a new era of cross-Channel cooperation.

18.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 18 (OneWorld) - London and Paris were given a prestigious award this week for their innovative citywide programs to improve public transit and reduce traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.

26.12.2007 Six French aid workers have been sentenced to eight years of forced labour for attempting to kidnap more than 100 African children, who they said were Darfuri orphans.
From Earth Times

05.11.2007 Chad's release of two French journalists arrested in a controversy over an attempt to transport 103 African children to France has been welcomed by international media organisations.

30.10.2007 Three French journalists have been charged in Chad with kidnapping minors and fraud for covering the alleged attempt by Arche de Zoé (Zoé’s Ark) to evacuate 103 African children to France.

29.10.2007 NEW YORK, Oct 29 (OneWorld) - Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. secretary of defense, is facing criminal charges in France for ordering the torture of prisoners in Iraq and at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

29.10.2007 Spain and France have sent diplomats to Chad where 16 of their nationals are still under arrest accused of child trafficking after being caught on Thursday trying to fly 103 young children out of the country to France.
From: EuroNews

27.10.2007 The UN Children's Fund has criticised an attempt to separate more than 100 young Chadian children from their parents and take them to France for adoption as “illegal and totally irresponsible".

22.10.2007 Center for Global Development -nimisen aivoriihen tutkimuksen mukaan Ranska on innokkaimmin tukemassa informaatioteknologiaa kehitysyhteistyössä. Maiden sijoitukseen vaikutti myös asenne immateriaalioikeuksista luopumiseen, mikä sijoitti Yhdysvallat vasta sijalle 14.

06.05.2007 International donors, particularly Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Spain and Australia, have been accused of an inadequate or non-existent response to the UN humanitarian appeal for Chad.

07.02.2007 The French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo goes on trial in Paris today accused of deliberately trying to hurt Muslims “in their collective attachment to their beliefs” by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a special issue a year ago.
From: Reporters Without Borders

31.01.2007 Campaigners are to protest outside of the French embassy in London on Friday to urge the government to stop representatives of the Zimbabwean government attending a forthcoming Franco-African summit.
* Zimbabwe organisation faces charges after pro-democracy church service

30.01.2007 It took 44 activists, 100 metres of rope, and 500 square metres of fabric for Greenpeace to hoist a message for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that is meeting in Paris this week.

19.12.2006 Joseph Williams is working to help reduce criminal recidivism in the United States while Caroline Casey is helping promote the contributions people with disabilities make to business in Ireland. Wayan Patut is helping conserve coral reefs in Indonesia, Abdellah Aboulharjan is fostering entrepreneurship in France's immigrant communities...the list goes on and on and on...

21.11.2006 A hearing in Paris Tuesday will consider the case of Jasmeet Singh, one of four French-Sikh schoolboys excluded from school in September for refusing to remove their Turbans.

26.10.2006 Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France, announces a Call for Papers for the UNTELE 2007 Conference, to be held March 29-31, 2007. The principal theme of the up-coming UNTELE 2007 conference is Cross-cultural communication, global networking and second language acquisition

08.09.2006 Haiti was born of a slave revolt in 1804. But its reputation as a violent country is undeserved, says a founding member of the country's Citizens’ Watchdog Center, and its stability will be assured when citizens are able to hold their leaders to account.

27.07.2006 PARIS, Jul 27 (IPS) - The extreme hot summer in Europe is restricting nuclear energy generation and showing up the limits of nuclear power, leading environmental activists and scientists say.

07.06.2006 The French town of Bayeux is to build a memorial to journalists killed while doing their job.