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Global: Online Dialogue on Technology for Transparency

The Technology for Transparency Initiative, together with New Tactics in Human Rights, invites you to join an online dialogue on 'Using Technology to Promote Transparency'. Join us to discuss new ideas, challenges, risks, and opportunities.

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Syria: World Cities Rally Against and For Bashar

Macedonia: Views from Abroad on Protests Against Police Violence

Filip Stojanovski writes about how the ongoing protests against police brutality in Macedonia are viewed from abroad.

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Slovakia: Second-Class Customers 11 May 2011
Global Voices at the 7th Annual BOB Awards 8 April 2011
Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia make Eurovision Top Ten 31 May 2010
Best of Blog Awards 2010: And the Winners are… 16 April 2010
Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating Women in Technology and Transparency Worldwide 25 March 2010

Latest stories about Germany

15 November 2011

Eurozone Crisis: Where Will the Economy Go?

Written by Evan Fleischer · Governance, International Relations

Economists would be hard pressed to forecast the future of Europe's bailouts and the consequences of the current financial crisis. While opinions differ, reactions abound online to try to make sense of what future awaits the Eurozone.

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16 October 2011

Food Around the World on Blog Action Day 2011

Written by Solana Larsen · Arts & Culture, Development

Every year since 2007, Blog Action Day has united bloggers from around the world in talking about one global issue. Collectively, the thousands of bloggers participating have an audience of millions. And this year on October 16, 2011 they talked about food.

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8 April 2011

Video: Checking out the BOBs Video Channel Nominees

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Arts & Culture, Film

The Deutsche Welle International Blog Awards, known as The BOBs are one of the most important awards for content producers online. One of their 17 categories is the award for Best Video Channel and today we'll get to know a bit more about the 11 nominees to better cast your vote.

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8 March 2011

Hollaback! Mobile Technology Against Street Harassment

Written by Ernesto Priego · Citizen Media, Women & Gender

Based on the premise that "the explosion of mobile technology has given us an unprecedented opportunity to end street harassment," Hollaback! is encouraging women around the world to use the tools available to them to share their stories and geo-locate incidents and reports.

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23 November 2010

Costa Rica: Germany and Colombia win La Ruta endurance cycling race

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Arts & Culture, Sport

La Ruta de los Conquistadores is considered one of the world's hardest cycling races in stages and it took place last week in Costa Rica, with Colombian Angela Parra winning in the women's category and German cyclist Ben Sonntag winning in the male category. But the organizers faced a parallel challenge: they struggled to handle participants' dissatisfaction with the way rules were enforced during the race.

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15 September 2010

Slovakia: No Money for Greece

Written by Tibor Blazko · Governance, Law

Slovakia's refusal to take part in the Greek bailout has "outraged" the European Central Bank. Tibor Blazko translates some of what the Slovak netizens think about the issue.

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Updates about Germany

6 September 2011

English

ChinaSMACK has a post about about the Nazi Chic cosplay culture in China and translated Chinese netizens' reactions to a set of Nazi Chic photos.

• Oiwan Lam

12 August 2011

English

Kelly Hignett at The View East writes about the Berlin wall, and its historical significance as a divide between East and West, as it is now 50 years since the wall - demolished in 1989 - was constructed.

• Vilhelm Konnander

18 July 2011

English

David Cook at The View East writes about the East German security police, Stasi, during the Cold War, and its system of informers.

• Vilhelm Konnander

15 July 2011

English

James Shingler at The View East writes about East German rock and pop music and its subvertive role in changing society during the 1970s and 1980s.

• Vilhelm Konnander

7 June 2011

War & Conflict

Zimbru of Morning in Moldova comments on and argues against rumours about an upcoming German-Russian proposal on the status of breakaway province Transnistria within a federal state of Moldova.

• Vilhelm Konnander

27 May 2011

English

Alexander J. Motyl writes at Ukraine's Orange Blues/World Affairs about the implications of the May 12 sentencing of John Demjanjuk “for being an accessory to the murder of 28,060 Jews in the Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor, in occupied Poland.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

13 May 2011

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