May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Forced_marriage":
National: 19 Apr 12
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich condemned domestic violence, forced marriage and the fundamentalist Muslim branch the Salafists at the latest Islam conference on Thursday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Nov 11
Thousands of forced marriages take place in Germany each year. Many involve German citizens but society continues to look the other way, comments Cigdem Akyol from ZEIT ONLINE.
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Society: 9 Nov 11
Nearly half of those in forced marriages or in danger of such in Germany are German citizens, while around a third are minors, according to the most detailed study of the practice to date.
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Society: 25 Nov 10
German police are fighting a boom in sex trafficking from the Balkans region, driven by pimps and traffickers recruiting increasingly young women, experts said in Berlin this week.
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Politics: 27 Oct 10
The German cabinet on Wednesday backed several proposed changes to immigration laws including cracking down on forced marriages by making them a punishable offence and offering better protection for victims.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 Oct 10
Chancellor Angela Merkel has declared “multiculturalism” dead but also wants to lure qualified immigrants to Germany. The conflicting messages left some newspapers in The Local’s media roundup on Monday confused.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Oct 10
The current debate about Islam’s place in German society is often skewed by a perverse interpretation of the religion that most average Muslim citizens do not recognize, writes Thomas Seibert from Der Tagesspiegel.
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National: 11 Jun 10
German teachers are to get guidelines on handling the issue of forced marriages with their pupils, the government said Friday following a spate cases in recent months.
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National: 4 May 10
Berlin police on Tuesday denied reports that a 15-year-old girl they saved from a forced marriage last week was secretly returned to the city and married to a 19-year-old groom.
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Society: 30 Apr 10
Police saved a 15-year-old Hamburg girl from a forced marriage this week, freeing her from the family home of her husband-to-be, a spokesman told The Local on Friday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Aug 09
With just over a month left until Germans head to the polls, Dr. Jackson Janes from the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies offers a primer of what’s at stake for Angela Merkel and her challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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Politics: 18 Jul 09
A new survey says that 56 percent of Germans have had enough of the ruling coalition of Germany’s two biggest parties.
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Society: 18 May 09
A German appeals court overturned a five-year jail sentence on Monday for an obese bus driver who fatally squashed his wife by falling on her during a booze-fuelled row.
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Society: 1 Oct 08
German gynaecologist Monika Hauser was awarded an “Alternative Nobel Prize” on Wednesday for her work with third world victims of violent sex crimes.
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