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“Germany”

Editors picks12
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germany migration
November 09th, 2018
Germany may pull out of the Global Compact for Migration
by:Gurmeet Singh
Unlike many other nations which have also committed atrocities, Germany tries to understand its past.
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refugees welcome
November 01st, 2018
The Grand Refugee Hotel
in:Humans
partner:NewsDeeply
Germany is home of one of the most radical refugee integration experiments.
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denuncing
October 12th, 2018
Neutral schools neutralising thought
by:Gurmeet Singh
The far right AfD party in Germany is seeking to utilise opinion as a divisive and dangerous wearon.
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October 06th, 2018
Let's make sure that "Hambi" stays!
type:Campaign, Donation, NGO, Protest
by:Deniz Zehra Tavli
Ban on anti-coal protest at Hambach forest near Cologne has been lifted. Thousands of demonstrators are expected on Saturday. The call for protest goes on!
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September 07th, 2018
Ghosts of the past haunting Germany
by:Maria João Morais
Social disruption has returned to the East of Germany after the shocking events that recently took place in Chemnitz.
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May 08th, 2018
After the VW scandal, consequences are underway
by:Shira Jeczmien
Three years after the VW Clean Diesel scandal emerged, charged are finally under way.
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March 09th, 2018
'HAYMATLOS': Support a (post)migrant literature project!
by:Deniz Zehra Tavli
HAYMATLOS is a book project that unites (post)migrant poems and perspectives to raise awareness for this topic in times of encompassing global xenophobia.
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wolf_IFAW
February 10th, 2018
Help protecting the wolves in Germany!
type:Donation, Education, NGO
by:Deniz Zehra Tavli
Wolves had been eradicated in Germany for 150 years. Since only a few years they have returned to their traditional habitat. Still they are endangered.
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July 28th, 2017
Track 11: A movie about integration in Germany
type:Crowd Funding, Donation
by:Deniz Zehra Tavli
In 1966 Fehmi Gönüleğlendiren, a young man from Adana in Turkey arrived in the German city Mönchengladbach. He was one of the so called guest [...]
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February 17th, 2017
Balkan health workers dream a German dream
in:Humans
by:Katarina Panić
The same picture one might place in every single town in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia or Monte Negro – recruitment recently has been taking place all over. “I`m [...]
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June 29th, 2016
Yes, we have bananas
in:Humans, Nature, Economy
by:Andrew Scheinman
Austerity the norm in the Communist Eastern Bloc, the exotic banana emerged as a symbol of green grass on the other side of the Cold War fence. Yet how is it that this one curious yellow fruit, [...]
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fossil-free
September 12th, 2015
Desinvest now for a Fossil Free Münster!
type:Petition
by:Deniz Zehra Tavli
Global climate change and its consequences are a tangible threat to our societies. The global temperature rises continuously and climate is changing [...]
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volunteers
September 09th, 2015
A change isn't gonna come, it's here now
by:Vanessa Ellingham
I have cried at least as many happy tears as sad ones watching the news over the last week.There have been scenes of utter devastation, one [...]
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gemenne
August 19th, 2015
Open borders the only way forward
by:Vanessa Ellingham
"Open borders are the simplest and most effective way to help asylum seekers." This is what migration researcher François Gemenne told German magazine Stern [...]
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June 18th, 2015
Refugee roommates welcomed by German locals
in:Humans, Economy
by:Vanessa Ellingham
More than 200,000 people sought asylum in Germany in 2014 – a record number that is likely to be challenged again this year.Many asylum seekers [...]
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June 10th, 2015
Breaking the isolation through education
type:Donation, NGO, Project, Volunteering
by:Deniz Zehra Tavli
In spring 2013 the founders of "Teachers on the Road" started a tour through more than 50 refugee shelters throughout Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. [...]
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May 30th, 2015
There is such a thing as a free lunch
in:Humans, Nature, Economy
by:Vanessa Ellingham
The sharing fridges are an offshoot of Foodsharing.de, where more than 55,000 users throughout Germany advertise their leftovers free to be picked up [...]
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U-Bahnhof in Berlin
May 05th, 2015
Germany neglects anti-racism policy
by:Murat Suner
The UN Anti-Racism Commission in Geneva is regularly examining how governments are putting the UN Anti-Racism Convention from 1969 into [...]
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boats
April 22nd, 2015
Smuggler knows best: how to solve the Mediterranean migration crisis
by:Vanessa Ellingham
With the news that an estimated 700 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean from one capsized boat over Saturday night and Sunday morning, the total [...]
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pegida dresden
December 23rd, 2014
Germany's democracy on thin ice?
by:Murat Suner
Recently Dresden has become the centre of a movement called Pegida, an abbreviation for Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the [...]
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November 10th, 2014
Berlin Wall anniversary: Is commemoration enough?
by:Vanessa Ellingham
Last night in Berlin hundreds of thousands turned out to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a moving, symbolic [...]
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ohlauer
July 11th, 2014
Refugees occupy Berlin's TV Tower
by:Vanessa Ellingham
"Please translate for us," a refugee calls out to police as a group of protesters are split up, "since we are not allowed to learn German." It's the [...]
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Photos of Snowden, a contractor at the NSA, and U.S. President Obama are printed on the front pages of local English and Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong in this illustration photo
June 06th, 2014
Snowden: one year on
by:Vanessa Ellingham
One year has passed since media outlets first began publishing details of NSA contractor Edward Snowden's revelations, exposing an uncomfortable picture of mass [...]
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December 12th, 2013
Playing catch-up on Marriage Equality
in:Humans
type:Allgemein
by:Redaktion
Counting on your fingers, trying to guess who is missing? Germany. In an opinion piece on Human Rights Watch today, Boris Dittrich, a former member of the Dutch parliament [...]
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August 28th, 2013
The Germans are once again world champions
in:Nature, Economy
type:Allgemein
by:Itai Lahat
In July, the mostly grey-skied country's solar panel electricity production rose above 5.1 TWh. That’s according to the latest data from the EEX [...]
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March 02nd, 2013
Efficiency über Alles
in:Nature, Economy
type:Allgemein
by:Itai Lahat
So how efficient is this car? Short answer is: 0.9 liter for 100km. that’s a staggering number. Compared for example with the will of the Obama administration to set the Average Fuel [...]
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November 01st, 2012
Amina's case: The German "Residenzpflicht" explained
in:Humans
type:Allgemein
by:Sara Jabril
Knowing hardly anything about Germany, and no German whatsoever, Amina came here and was put in an accommodation center for asylum seekers in the [...]
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