As previously reported, women all over Iceland left work at 14.25 today in a co-ordinated action to highlight continuing inequality in society. Read the full story
Posted on 25 October 2010.
As previously reported, women all over Iceland left work at 14.25 today in a co-ordinated action to highlight continuing inequality in society. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 July 2010.
The Central Bank of Iceland was the scene of protests this morning over the Bank and the FME financial regulator’s joint proposal for how to deal with foreign currency indexed car loans, recently ruled illegal by the Supreme Court. Protesters believe the proposal is the best possible for the banks and the worst possible for indebted customers. Read the full story
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Posted on 23 April 2010.
Jonni Hansen, the controversial Danish National Socialist Movement leader, has been acquitted of racism offences. Read the full story
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Posted on 01 April 2010.
The flag outside the Swedish embassy in Malaysia was set on fire last week in a protest against newspaper caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Mohammad. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 February 2010.
Around 2,500 people have marched through the Norwegian capital of Oslo in protest at the printing of a contentious caricature of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed by a local newspaper. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 November 2009.
Market gardeners in Iceland distributed vegetables outside parliament yesterday as part of their protest at the high cost of electricity. The protest was timed to coincide with a parliamentary debate about greenhouse farmers and the increasing cost of electricity. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 October 2009.
For the second time in under a week, a mink farm in Jutland has been attacked by animal rights activists, releasing some 3,000 of the animals into the wild. Read the full story
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Posted on 27 August 2009.
A group of people broke away from the crowd of protesters this afternoon and tried to break into the Parliament building. Two police officers stopped the small group from entering. Drumming and whistling could be heard from the protesters inside the Parliament. Read the full story
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Posted on 21 June 2009.
Several hundred people met yesterday outside the Icelandic parliament to take part in a protest organised by the Voices of the People movement – the same group behind this winter’s protests which helped lead to the fall of the old government. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 January 2009.
Icelandic Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde again reiterated yesterday that the time for new elections in Iceland has not yet come. In his opinion, calling elections now would leave the country without effective government while the vote is prepared; and that would not be in the national interest. He would, however, not rule out elections as early as next winter. Read the full story
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