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'{{About|the human rights situation in the Providence of the [[Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]]|information on the [[East Germany|GDR]] and earlier periods|History of Germany}} {{Politics of Germany}} Human rights in [[Germany]] enjoy a high level of protection, both in theory and in practice, and are enshrined in the ''[[Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany|Grundgesetz]]''. The country has ratified most international human rights treaties. Reports from independent organizations such as [[Amnesty International]] certify a high level of compliance with human rights, while still pointing out several issues, in particular [[police brutality]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Strafverfahren gegen Polizisten wegen Körperverletzung im Amt |url=https://strafrecht-online.org/stuff/tacheles-polizeigewalt.pdf |author=Prof. Dr. Tobias Singelnstein |date=n.d. }}</ref> and mistreatment of [[refugees]]. The 2008 [[Freedom in the World]] report by US-funded [[Freedom House]] gives Germany a score of "1" (the best possible) for both [[political rights]] and [[civil liberties]]. ==Law== The constitution of Germany, the ''[[Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany|Grundgesetz]]'', which came into effect in May 8, 1949, puts a particular emphasis on human rights. Its first sentence, "[[Human dignity]] is inviolable", is being interpreted as protecting the sum of human rights. This paragraph is protected by an "[[eternity clause]]" and cannot be changed. It has wide-ranging effects on judicial practice; for example, it has been used to justify the right on [[Informational self-determination]] in a 1983 finding of the [[Federal Constitutional Court of Germany]]. However, following experiences from the [[Weimar Republic]], Germany sees itself as a ''[[streitbare Demokratie|wehrhafte Demokratie]]'' (fortified democracy); actions targeted towards removing the democratic order are not covered by human rights. The constitution guarantees all rights from the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] (which itself is not legally binding), with the exception of an unlimited [[right for asylum]]. The ratification of the [[European Convention on Human Rights]] allows citizens to appeal to the [[European Court of Human Rights]]. Mandatory [[military service]] for male citizens was established in 1956.<ref>German law: ''Wehrpflichtgesetz (WehrPflG) vom Juli 1956, Fundstelle: BGBl I 1956, 651, Neugefasst durch Bek. v. 30. 5.2005 I 1465'' (see [http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bundesrecht/wehrpflg/gesamt.pdf wording of the law])</ref> At any time, [[conscientious objector]]s can opt to do ''[[Zivildienst]]'' (civilian service) instead. For the time of both services, many human rights such as [[freedom of movement]] are suspended. Since 1 July 2011, the government no longer has the ability to exercise the right under this article, that is, military service is currently ''de facto'' voluntary in Germany. However, there are no plans to abolish laws allowing conscription.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rp-online.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/wehrpflicht-wird-zum-1-juli-2011-ausgesetzt-aid-1.481249|title=Kabinettsbeschluss: Wehrpflicht wird zum 1. Juli 2011 ausgesetzt| publisher=[[Rheinische Post|RP Online]]|language = German}}</ref> ==Treaties== {| border=1 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 |- | '''UN core treaties'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://treaties.un.org/Pages/Treaties.aspx?id=4&subid=A&lang=en|title=UNTC|website=Treaties.un.org|accessdate=10 January 2018}}</ref> | '''Participation of Germany''' | '''CoE core treaties'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/ListeTraites.asp?MA=44&TI=&LO=999&AO=&AV=&CM=2&CL=ENG|title=CoE human rights treaties|website=BConventions.coe.int|accessdate=10 January 2018}}</ref> | '''Participation of Germany''' |- | [[Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination]] | Ratified in 1969 | [[European Convention on Human Rights]] | Ratified in 1952 |- | [[International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]] | Ratified in 1973 | Protocol 1 (ECHR) | Ratified in 1957 |- | [[First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights|First Optional Protocol]] (ICCPR) | Accession in 1993 | Protocol 4 (ECHR) | Ratified in 1968 |- | [[Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights|Second Optional Protocol]] (ICCPR) | Ratified in 1992 | Protocol 6 (ECHR) | Ratified in 1989 |- | [[International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights]] | Ratified in 1973 | Protocol 7 (ECHR) | Signed in 1985 |- | [[Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women]] | Ratified in 1985 | Protocol 12 (ECHR) | Signed in 2000 |- | [[Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women|Optional Protocol]] (CEDAW) | Ratified in 2002 | Protocol 13 (ECHR) | Ratified in 2004 |- | [[United Nations Convention Against Torture]] | Ratified in 1990 | [[European Social Charter]] | Ratified in 1965 |- | [[Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment|Optional Protocol]] (CAT) | Ratified in 2008 | Additional Protocol of 1988 (ESC) | Signed in 1988 |- | [[Convention on the Rights of the Child]] | Ratified in 1992 | Additional Protocol of 1995 (ESC) | ''Not signed'' |- | [[Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict]] (CRC) | Ratified in 2004 | Revised European Social Charter | Signed in 2007 |- | Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (CRC) | Ratified in 2009 | [[European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment]] | Ratified in 1990 |- | [[United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families|Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families]] | ''Not signed'' | [[European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages]] | Ratified in 1998 |- | [[Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities]] | Ratified in 2009 | [[Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities]] | Ratified in 1997 |- | [[Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities|Optional Protocol]] (CRPD) | Ratified in 2009 | [[Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings]] | Signed in 2005 |- | [[United Nations Convention against Corruption]] | Signed in 2014 | Legally binding multilateral UN anti-corruption instrument | Signed in 2003 |- |} Germany is also a member of the [[United Nations Human Rights Council]]. It recognizes the jurisdiction of the [[International Criminal Court]]. ==Reports== The [[Amnesty International]] reports of 2005 and 2006 mainly criticize—though very rarely occurring and mostly severely punished—some cases of [[police brutality]], mistreatment of [[refugees]], and [[racist]] attacks. The 2008 [[Freedom in the World]] report by US-funded [[Freedom House]] gives Germany a score of "1" (the best possible) for both [[political rights]] and [[civil liberties]]. ==Topics== ===Custody=== [[Detention of suspects|Remand]] must be ordered by a [[judge]]. Usually, a suspect cannot be detained for more than six months without a conviction. The [[death penalty]] is abolished. A court may order that a person be detained indefinitely even after the sentence is completed, if the person is convicted of particularly serious crimes and is judged, after expert testimony, to be a danger to the public (''Sicherungsverwahrung''). The German citizen [[Khalid El-Masri]] was abducted by the [[CIA]] in 2005 and interred without trial for months, although innocent. German [[Bundesnachrichtendienst|intelligence]] was informed early about this, but undertook nothing, which was subject to an intense political debate. ===Freedom of speech=== {{Main|Censorship in the Federal Republic of Germany}} Freedom of speech is guaranteed by the constitution. However, ''[[Volksverhetzung]]'' (incitement of the people) is a crime, defined as spreading hate against or insult against a part of the population. In 1994, a paragraph explicitly forbidding denial of [[Nazi crimes]] was added. ===Freedom of assembly=== Open-air public rallies require (generally) prior announcement to the local authorities, but no permits. Local authorities can prohibit rallies only on grounds of public safety concerns or involvement of outlawed organizations. ===Freedom of press=== Freedom of press is generally very established in Germany; the 2009 [[Press Freedom Index]] of [[Reporters Without Borders]] rates Germany at place 18 of 175 countries. The most notable incident involving free press restrictions was the [[Spiegel scandal]] of 1962, when the Minister of Defense [[Franz Josef Strauß]] ordered the unlawful arrest of several journalists after an article accusing him of bribery. The scandal led to the dismissial of Strauß from office and severely damaged the reputation of Chancellor [[Konrad Adenauer]]. In 2005, minister of the interior [[Otto Schily]] authorized a raid of offices of the periodical Cicero, which was criticized as an attack on press freedom by part of the German press. The raid was based on a substantiated suspicion of leaking of state secrets. However, on February 27, 2007, the [[Federal Constitutional Court of Germany|Federal Constitutional Court]] ruled that suspicion that a journalist is aiding the betrayal of state secrets is not sufficient to warrant a search, and thus the raid was illegal. The finding has been widely regarded as a strengthening of press freedom.<ref>[https://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID6460308_NAV_REF1,00.html] {{dead link|date=January 2018}}</ref> A scandal regarding spying on journalists by the secret service ''[[Bundesnachrichtendienst]]'', starting in May 2006, has not been cleared up yet. ===Police brutality=== Today the [[law enforcement in Germany]] is one of the most regulated and controlled in the world. Especially because of experiences through the Nazi-regime, the German politics and people are very attentive to the power and way of working of the police. In Germany the use of firearms—even by the police—is strictly regulated and there are (compared with other countries) only a few cases of shots fired by the police every year.<ref>Christoph Gusy: ''Polizeirecht''. ⁷2009, {{ISBN|978-3-16-148921-1}}</ref> However, there were some incidents in the last past years: On 5 March 2009 a man died in a hospital after falling into a coma while in police custody in Hagen on 17 February where he had been bound face-down. The Office of the Public Prosecutor terminated its investigations and found that the force used by the police was proportionate, despite the fact that since 2000, police officers have been trained not to restrain a person face-down because of the danger of asphyxia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://report2009.amnesty.org/en/regions/europe-central-asia/germany |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090902125828/http://report2009.amnesty.org/en/regions/europe-central-asia/germany |archive-date=2009-09-02 |dead-url=yes |df= }}</ref> In December 2008, the regional court of Dessau acquitted two police officers of killing Oury Jalloh as a result of negligence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.welt.de/politik/article2847307/Wutausbruch-nach-Polizistenfreispruch-in-Dessau.html|title=Wutausbruch nach Polizistenfreispruch in Dessau|first=Freia|last=Peters|date=8 December 2008|website=Welt.de|language = German}}</ref> Oury Jalloh had died 2005 when a fire broke out in his cell, where he was restrained to the bed. In its oral reasons for the judgment, the court stated lack of evidence as the reason for the acquittal, and strongly criticized the testimonies of most of the police officers who were witnesses in the court case. On 13 December 2012, the regional court of Magdeburg overruled the earlier acquittal, and ruled for negligent homicide. An earlier accusation of bodily harm with fatal consequences was dropped by the public prosecution for lack of evidence. The accused officer was condemned to a fine of 10,800 Euro by the court, in excess of the 6,300 Euro plead for by prosecution.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/fall-ouri-jallow-gericht-verhaengt-geldstrafe-gegen-polizist-a-872673.html|title=Tod im Arrest: Polizist im Jallow-Prozess zu 10.800 Euro Strafe verurteilt|website=Spiegel.de|accessdate=10 January 2018}}</ref> ===Torture=== There are no reports on systematic use of torture in [[Germany]]. However, there were some related incidents. In 2002, [[Frankfurt]]'s police vice president [[Wolfgang Daschner]] ordered a subordinate officer to threaten the suspect of a kidnapping to use force in order to get information on the whereabouts of the abductee (the abductee was killed shortly after the kidnapping, but the suspect told the police that the child was still alive, and Daschner decided to break the law to save the child's life. Daschner himself wrote down an official note of his actions). This triggered an emotional debate over the legality of such measures. Daschner was convicted to the lowest possible penalty of a fine. Daschner and the subordinate officer remained in duty. In a trial against terror suspect [[Mounir El Motassadeq]], a court used evidence provided by US authorities, despite widespread evidence of torture in [[Guantanamo Bay detainment camp|US detainment camps]].{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} The conviction was rejected in appeal due to lack of evidence. In January 2007 he was condemned for 15 years in detention.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} Forced psychiatric interventions have repeatedly been reported by Psychiatric Survivor activists to be inhumane, meeting the criteria of and being experienced as torture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bpe-online.de/verband/vorstandsmitteilungen/Psychiatrische%20Zwangsbehandlung%20ist%20Folter%20mit%20Prof.%20Simon.pdf|title=Psychiatrische Zwangsbehandlung ist Folter |website=Bpe-online.de|accessdate=10 January 2018}}</ref> In 2011 and 2012, the German Federal Constitutional Court <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/pressemitteilungen/bvg11-063.html|title=Bundesverfassungsgericht - Presse - Verfassungsbeschwerde eines im Maßregelvollzug Untergebrachten gegen medizinische Zwangsbehandlung in einem weiteren Fall erfolgreich - auch baden-württembergische gesetzliche Regelung verfassungswidrig|website=Bundesverfassungsgericht.de|accessdate=10 January 2018}}</ref> and the Federal Court of Justice clarified that there has never been any sufficient legal basis for compulsory treatment as practiced until then. Under the protests of human rights activists<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zwangspsychiatrie.de/2012/11/massaker-an-grundrechten-geplant-demobericht-justizministerkonferenz/|title=Massaker an Grundrechten geplant: Demobericht Justizministerkonferenz|website=Zwangspsycjiatrie.de|accessdate=10 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.meinungsverbrechen.de/?p=323|title=» Demo gegen Zwangspsychiatrie auf dem SPD Landesparteitag 2012 in Wiesloch Meinungsverbrechen.de|website=Meinungsverbrechen.de|accessdate=10 January 2018}}</ref> who were supported by sociologist Prof. Wolf-Dieter Narr, the German Government and successively also the federal state governments started working towards a quick legalization of involuntary treatment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2013/42502841_kw03_de_zwangsbehandlung/|title=SPD und Koalition stimmen für Zwangsbehandlungen|first=Dr. Verena|last=Renneberg|website=Bundestag.de|accessdate=10 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aerzteblatt.de/nachrichten/54451/Baden-Wuerttemberg-Konsens-ueber-neue-Regeln-fuer-Zwangsbehandlung-in-der-Psychiatrie|title=Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Baden-Württemberg: Konsens über neue Regeln für Zwangsbehandlung in der Psychiatrie|first=Deutscher Ärzteverlag GmbH, Redaktion Deutsches|last=Ärzteblatt|website=Aerzteblatt.de|accessdate=10 January 2018}}</ref> By the time the first of these laws were enacted, the Special Rapporteur on torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Juan E. Méndez, reported on abusive practises in health care settings worldwide and the policies that promote these practises. He stated that: ''"both this mandate and United Nations treaty bodies have established that involuntary treatment and other psychiatric interventions in health-care facilities are forms of torture and ill-treatment"'' and that ''"it is essential that an absolute ban on all coercive and non-consensual measures, including restraint and solitary confinement of people with psychological or intellectual disabilities, should apply"''<ref>{{cite web|last=Méndez|first=Juan E.|title=Report on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment|publisher=OHCHR}}</ref> ===Surveillance=== Several parties, such as the right-wing "[[National Democratic Party of Germany]]" (NPD) and the communist platform of the [[Left Party (Germany)|Left Party]], are under surveillance from the ''[[Verfassungsschutz]]'' ("Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution"). The use of [[police informers]] has sometimes{{Who|date=January 2011}} been criticized as excessive{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}}. A motion to label the NPD as an illegal organization was abandoned, because it became apparent that many actions of the NPD were actually controlled by the Verfassungsschutz.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bverfg.de/entscheidungen/bs20030318_2bvb000101.html|title=Bundesverfassungsgericht - Entscheidungen - Einstellung der NPD-Verbotsverfahren: Erfordernis einer qualifizierten Zweidrittelmehrheit für Ablehnung des Antrags auf Verfahrenseinstellung - Einstellungsbeschluss eine Prozess- und keine Sachentscheidung, ohne Bindungswirkung|first=Bundesverfassungsgericht, 2.|last=Senat|date=18 March 2003|website=Bverfg.de|accessdate=10 January 2018}}</ref> In addition to parties, the German Government placed the [[Church of Scientology]] and its members in Germany under surveillance by the Verfassungsschutz since 1997 for the alleged goal of abolishing the order based on the German Grundgesetz. See also: [[Scientology in Germany]]. == Vulnerable populations == ===Minority and foreign parents=== Ethnic minorities are underrepresented in the political process and in public life, especially the civil service.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/racism/rapporteur/docs/A_HRC_14_43_Add.2.pdf|title=Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance|author=Githu Muigai|website=2.ohchr.org|accessdate=10 January 2018}}</ref> There were some cases of attacks on minorities in the country by right-wing groups, although Germany is—especially because of its past—very considered on tolerance and integration.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130416012746/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,AUS_RRT,,DEU,,4d761c562,0.html] </ref> In 2010 the US State Department reported that "right-wing extremist violence and harassment of racial minorities and foreigners were problems”.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/eur/136033.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315151402/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/eur/136033.htm|dead-url=yes|archive-date=2010-03-15|title=Germany|work=2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices|publisher=Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor – U.S. State Department}}</ref> ===Human trafficking=== {{main|Human trafficking in Germany}} There has been a growing awareness of [[human trafficking]] as a human rights issue in Europe (''see main article: [[trafficking in human beings]]''). The end of communism and collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia has contributed to an increase in human trafficking, with the majority of victims being women forced into prostitution.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coe.int/T/E/Com/Files/Themes/trafficking/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-03-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040307062424/http://www.coe.int/T/E/Com/Files/Themes/trafficking/ |archivedate=2004-03-07 |df= }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3979725.stm|title=A modern slave's brutal odyssey|date=3 November 2004|website=Bbc.co.uk}}</ref> Germany is a transit and destination country for persons, primarily women, trafficked mainly from Central and Eastern Europe and from Africa for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Russia alone accounted for one-quarter of the 1,235 identified victims reported in 2003, the latest year for which statistics are available. For the first time, Germany’s statistics included German nationals who numbered 127.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/46613.htm|title=V. Country Narratives -- Countries A through G|website=State.gov|accessdate=10 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.catwinternational.org/factbook/Germany.php |title=Archived copy |access-date=2007-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070125132809/http://www.catwinternational.org/factbook/Germany.php |archive-date=2007-01-25 |dead-url=yes |df= }}</ref> ===LGBT rights=== {{main|LGBT rights in Germany}} Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ([[LGBT]]) rights in 'Germany have evolved significantly over the course of the last decades. As of June 29, 2017, Germany legalized same-sex marriage, which provides the same rights as opposite-sex married couples receive. Same-sex step adoption has also been legal since 2005 and was expanded in 2013 to allow someone in a same-sex relationship to adopt a child already adopted by their partner;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-adoption/german-court-expands-adoption-rights-of-gay-couples-idUSBRE91I0TS20130219|title=German court expands adoption rights of gay couples|date=19 February 2013|website=Reuters.com}}</ref> however, joint adoption has not yet been legislated. Discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity vary across Germany, but discrimination in employment and the provision of goods and services is in principle banned countrywide. Transgender people have been allowed to change their legal gender since 1980. The law initially required them to undergo surgical alteration of their genitals in order to have key identity documents changed. This has since been declared unconstitutional.<ref name="ert_gender-identity-recognition">{{cite news |url=http://www.equalrightstrust.org/newsstory141211/index.htm |title=ERT Notes Steps Taken Around the World Recognising the Gender Identity of Gender Variant Persons |work=Equal Rights Trust |date=2011-12-14 |accessdate=2015-05-26 }}</ref> ===Intersex rights=== {{main|Intersex rights in Germany}} [[Intersex]] people in [[Germany]] have no recognition of their rights to physical integrity and bodily autonomy, and no specific protections from discrimination on the basis of sex characteristics. In response to an inquiry by the German Ethics Council in 2012, the government passed legislation in 2013 designed to classify some intersex infants to a ''[[de facto]]'' third category. The legislation has been criticized by civil society and human rights organizations as misguided.<ref name="adv-de">{{cite web | url = http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2013/11/06/op-ed-germany’s-third-gender-law-fails-equality | first = Hida | last = Viloria | work = The Advocate | title = Op-ed: Germany's Third-Gender Law Fails on Equality | date = November 6, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://oii.org.au/23183/germany-third-gender-birth-certificates/|title=OII Australia, "German proposals for a "third gender" on birth certificates miss the mark", 20 August 2013|work=OII Australia - Intersex Australia|accessdate=6 October 2014}}</ref> Research published in 2016 found no substantive reduction in numbers of [[intersex medical interventions]] on infants and children with intersex conditions in the period from 2005 to 2014.<ref name="kloppel2016">{{Cite journal| issn = 0947-6822| issue = 42| last = Klöppel| first = Ulrike| title = Zur Aktualität kosmetischer Operationen "uneindeutiger" Genitalien im Kindesalter| journal = Gender Bulletin| date = December 2016| url = https://www.gender.hu-berlin.de/de/publikationen/gender-bulletins/texte-42/kloeppel-2016_zur-aktualitaet-kosmetischer-genitaloperationen| access-date = 2017-05-31| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170204171338/https://www.gender.hu-berlin.de/de/publikationen/gender-bulletins/texte-42/kloeppel-2016_zur-aktualitaet-kosmetischer-genitaloperationen| archive-date = 2017-02-04| dead-url = yes| df = }}</ref> The United Nations and Amnesty International have joined local [[intersex civil society organizations]] in calling for protections.<ref name="amnesty2017report">{{Cite book| last = Amnesty International| title = First, Do No Harm| date = 2017 | url = https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur01/6086/2017/en/|website=Amnesty.org}}</ref> ==See also== * [[Antiziganism]] * [[Environmental racism in Europe]] * [[Nazi Germany]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060710215106/http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-deu/index Archive of Germany reports] by [[Amnesty International]]. *[http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&country=7416&year=2008 2008 Country report on Israel] by [[Freedom House]]. *[http://hrw.org/doc?t=europe&c=german Archive of Germany reports] by [[Human Rights Watch]]. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060620084737/http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/198/ Censorship cases in Germany] reported by the [[International Freedom of Expression Exchange]] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20101214235820/http://www.freemedia.at/publications/world-press-freedom-review/ World Press Freedom Review] by the [[International Press Institute]] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090226175725/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eur/119081.htm 2008] [[U.S. State Department]] country report on human rights practices in Germany. *[https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/eur/154426.htm 2010] [[U.S. State Department]] Human Rights Report: Germany. *[https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/108448.htm 2008] [[U.S. State Department]] country report on religious freedom in Germany. *[https://www.un.org/webcast/unhrc/archive.asp?go=090202 Review of Germany] by the [[United Nations Human Rights Council]]'s [[United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council#Universal_Periodic_Review|Universal Periodic Review]], February 2, 2009 {{Human rights in Europe}} {{Germany topics}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Human Rights In Germany}} [[Category:Human rights in Germany| ]]'