Full Coverage: France

10.06.2009 Reports that French company Veolia has abandoned the $500 million rail project linking Jerusalem and illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank has been welcomed by the anti-poverty charity War on Want.

30.05.2009 Mosaïques, the French Institute's annual celebration of cultural diversity, is back, with another lively mix of world cinema, music and live events.

02.04.2009 Unlawful killings, beatings, racial abuse and excessive use of force by law enforcement officials are rarely investigated effectively in France and those responsible seldom brought to justice, says a new report.
+ “Dangerous trend” condemned after anti-crime unit questions four journalists over Sarkozy video

07.01.2009 An Anglo-French oil company is poised to send more than 800 workers into a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by uncontacted Indians.

08.08.2008 Three companies have been named "worst for abusing tribal peoples’ rights" in a statement marking the UN Day for Indigenous Peoples on 9 August.
+ Supreme Court gives go-ahead to mine – tribe vows resistance

05.08.2008 Greenpeace France has launched two court cases in an effort to find out what’s really been going at the French nuclear site Tricastin-Pierrelatte, which has been hit by a series of accidents.

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.