Full Coverage: France
04/07/2008
Security measures for the Olympic torch relay’s passage through Paris are "shameful", according to an international media freedom group.
Read moreFrom: Reporter Senza Frontiere Related: [China] [Security] |
03/26/2008
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.
Read moreFrom: Greenpeace UK Related: [United Kingdom] Image: Sizewell nuclear power station, operated by British Energy © Greenpeace
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01/18/2008
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.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [United Kingdom] [Cities] [Transport] [Climate Change] |
12/27/2007
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.
Read moreFrom Earth Times Related: [Chad] |
11/13/2007
Ranskalaisen Zoén arkki -nimisen järjestön työntekijöitä pidätettiin Tšadissa epäiltynä 103 lapsen sieppaamisesta ja yrityksestä lennättää heidät Ranskaan.
Read moreFrom: Maailman Sivu ry Related: [Chad] [Children] Image: -
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11/05/2007
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.
Read moreFrom: Reporter Senza Frontiere Related: [Chad] |
10/31/2007
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.
Read moreFrom: Reporter Senza Frontiere Related: [Chad] |
10/29/2007
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.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [United States] [Iraq] [Human Rights] [Codes of Conduct] [Geopolitics] [Governance] [Justice and Crime] [Law] [Arms & Military] [Terrorism] Image: Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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10/27/2007
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".
Read moreFrom: United Nations Related: [Chad] |
10/23/2007
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.
Read moreFrom: SciDev.Net Related: [International Cooperation] [Freedom of Expression] [ICT] |
05/07/2007
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.
Read moreFrom: Oxfam Great Britain Related: [Australia] [Chad] [Germany] [Italy] [Japan] [Spain] |
02/07/2007
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.
Read moreFrom: Reporters Without Borders |
01/31/2007
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.
Read more* Zimbabwe organisation faces charges after pro-democracy church service Related: [Africa] [Zimbabwe] [Politics] |
01/30/2007
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.
Read moreFrom: Greenpeace International Related: [Climate Change] [Activism] Image: 'It's not too late' - Greenpeace's Eiffel Tower banner
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12/20/2006
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...
Read moreFrom: Ashoka: Innovators for the Public Related: [India] [Indonesia] [Ireland] [South Africa] [United States] Image: Caroline Casey. © Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
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11/21/2006
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.
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10/26/2006
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
Read moreRelated: [Education] [International Cooperation] |
09/08/2006
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.
Read moreFrom: North American Congress on Latin America Related: [United States] [Haiti] [Canada] Image: A UN peacekeeper talks to a girl in Bel Air, Haiti. © Refugees International
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09/06/2006
Greenpeace Internationalin mukaan Kiinasta tuotu laittomasti geenimuunneltu riisi on saastuttanut elintarvikkeita Ranskassa, Saksassa ja Isossa-Britanniassa. Greenpeace on muistuttanut päättäjiä siitä, että laittomasti geenimuunneltu riisi on vakava terveysriski. Järjestö vaatii Euroopan hallituksia aloittamaan välittömästi toimet kuluttajien suojelemiseksi. Geenimuunneltu riisi löytyi Greenpeacen ja Maan ystävien Isossa-Britanniassa tekemissä testeissä.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld South Asia Related: [East Asia] [South Asia] [Europe] [China] [Germany] [India] [United Kingdom] [Consumption] [Environment] [Genetics] [Health] [Nutrition/Malnutrition] [Security] Image: riso e alimentazione - da Greenpeace.it
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