Full Coverage: Germany

26.02.2009 German state bans on religious symbols and clothing for teachers and other civil servants discriminate against Muslim women who wear the headscarf, a leading international rights group said in a report released today.

12.08.2008 A Greenpeace team has begun placing 150 granite rocks on the bed of the German North Sea in an effort to stop fishing boats from bottom trawling.

23.04.2008 Small farmers from around the world celebrated last week the International Day of Peasant's Struggle and honored the communities and organizations in over 25 countries that are challenging escalating food costs.

18.03.2008

11.03.2008 President Bush rallied rich nations last week to join the the U.K., Japan, and the United States in committing billions of dollars for developing countries to expand their renewable energy capacity.

15.11.2007 Thirty years after the Baader-Meinhof Group rocked West German democracy with a series of terrorist attacks, an ICA film season takes a look at the role of women in the revolutionary struggle, both politically and personally.

04.11.2007 A piece of verbatim theatre based on the words of prisoners and guards from Nazi concentration camps has been given a twist in a current London production - it is performed by Rwandans and Congolese who bring to the stage their closeness to a more recent genocide.

11.07.2007 "Persecution and generalized violence continue despite a change of government in Baghdad," Human Rights Watch said this week, urging Germany to rethink its policy on Iraqi refugees in the country.
From: Human Rights Watch

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.

22.01.2007 from Houtlust blog:
Campaigners in Berlin slip balloons with a message onto the exhaust pipes of cars so that the exhaust inflates the balloons. And after the message 'The world can't take anymore CO2' becomes readable, there's a big bang.

28.12.2006 from Christian Science Monitor:
The green lifestlye goes beyond cars in Vauban, with a wood-chip energy plant operating since 2002 and solar collectors and photovoltaic cells quite common in the town.

17.10.2006 from Treehugger:
The installation will consist of twelve 5 megawatt turbines 45 km off Borkum Island.

16.10.2006 The web-based Literacy Project, launched last week, enables users to access and share literacy resources from around the world. Available in German and English.

13.10.2006 from blog:
A German-based company has developed a hybrid fuel cell powertrain that includes a battery pack and have installed into the first of a series of buses.

23.09.2006 Unusual film double for Black History Month at the ICA in London on 1 October: The Lion Mountains: A Journey Through Sierra Leone, in which a 25-year-old Jamaican English man looks at the country’s past and present to understand how the country fell into civil war; and Black Survivors of the Holocaust, on the World War 2 concentration camp experience of Black Germans. Both films are followed by Q&A sessions.

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.

11.07.2006 Under the auspices of the RADIO REVOLTEN festival, the Relating Radio. Communities. Aesthetics. Access. conference will be held, October 4-5, 2006, in Halle and der Saale, Germany. For additional information on the programme and organizers, visit this web-presentation.

05.07.2006 With over 3.2 million fans coming to Germany, World Cup organizers made concerted efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and waste by encouraging fans to take public transport and reuse drink containers--but as the final week of matches began, the fans had exceeded even the formal efforts.

29.06.2006 While Turkish immigrants traditionally identify themselves primarily with their native country, rallying behind their adopted homeland during the World Cup has made many feel more "German."

22.06.2006 BERLIN, Jun 22 (IPS) - Excellent football does not require fancy stadiums or million-dollar contracts. That is the view shared by the organisers of the Street Football World Festival, to be held alongside the World Cup in Germany.