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Submit Release TERRE DES FEMMES launches the campaign "Abolish Paragraph 219a". Spots point out the lunacy of this misogynic paragraph April 21, 2021 (PRLEAP.COM) Health News Paragraph 219a of the German Criminal Code (StGB) prohibits "advertising for abortion". This paragraph is not confined to advertising but includes virtually any kind of information. In concrete terms, this means that doctors may only make public that they perform pregnancy terminations. But they may not provide information to the public on how they perform them. Otherwise, they are breaking the law and could face u...

Young activist fights to criminalize catcalling in Germany The murder of Sarah Everard in London has sparked fresh debate about harassment and assaults against women. In Germany, one young woman is campaigning for the introduction of a "catcall law." Public harassment is a fact of life for women everywhere "Hey, blondie!" "Babe, come over here!" — many men still think this sort of lewd comment, along with wolfwhistles and obscene gestures, is a compliment. For women it's outright harassment. Catcalling — sexually suggestive and inappropriate remarks directed at women by strangers �...

A Warwick University professor wrongly claimed a female Holocaust survivor had had a sexual lesbian relationship with a Nazi concentration camp guard, a research misconduct investigation has found. A panel convened by the university concluded there was 'insufficient evidence' to support historian Dr Anna Hájková's claims that a Jewish prisoner and an SS guard had had a sexual relationship. The extraordinary claim was made by Dr Hájková after testimonies by survivors of the camps and legal documents from the Nazi's trial led her to conclude an affair had occurred between the two women. Wh...

Posted by TheConversation | Jan 26, 2021 | Syndicated | By Sylvia Taschka, Senior Lecturer of History, Wayne State University Comparisons between the United States under Trump and Germany during the Hitler era are once again being made following the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Even in the eyes of German history scholars like myself, who had earlier warned of the troubling nature of such analogies, Trump’s strategy to remain in power has undeniably proved that he has fascist traits. True to the fascist playbook, which includes hyper-nationalism, the glorification of violenc...

The U.S. finds itself in a different place and time than postwar Germany, but the challenge is similar.