Amazon likes to appear diverse and open to the world. But on closer inspection, the company is primarily taking advantage of the precarious situation of foreign employees. By Hugh Williamson
Read MoreGermany/Tajikistan: Jailed after Deportation
Comment article in die tageszeitung, a Germany daily newspaper telling the story of what happened when Germany deported a Tajik opposition activist to Tajikistan
Read MoreRemembering a priest who protected Jewish people in Berlin
Eitel-Friedrich von Rabenau was a priest during the Nazi era in the church I attend in Berlin, the Apostel-Paulus Kirche. With a colleague, Dr Stefanie Sippel, I organised an event in May 2022 to remember his contribution to protecting Jewish people in the local community between 1939-45. The event was part of the Denk Mal am Ort initiative to remember those in Germany persecuted by the Nazis, and those who sought to help them. A feature on the event (in German) is here (pages 36-38, with pictures)
Nave gazing in Berlin
Feature in the Church Times on the use by a prominent German gallerist of a remarkable former church in Berlin as an exhibition space
Read MoreMarking Pandemic Time in Apostel-Paulus Church
A few words on helping out in my local church during the Covid19 pandemic
Read MoreLetter to Church Times: Berlin church stays open during covid19 pandemic
How my local church is still welcoming visitors during the lockdown
Read MoreHow can Germans 'stay at home' if they are homeless?
COVID-19 is a double blow to people living on the streets
Read MoreInterview: Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director of Human Rights Watch
The Church Times asked to interview me about my background and my work for Human Rights Watch
Read MoreGermans Reflect on 30 Years Since Fall of the Berlin Wall
The resistance shown by east Germans 30 years ago led to the freedoms experienced by all Germans today - including the freedom to disagree about the significance of reunification
Read MoreRussia World Cup: Labour Abuses on Stadium Building Sites
My testimony in German parliament on human rights and Russia’s staging of the 2018 soccer World Cup
Read MoreThe Ex-Tenant
Ludwig Katzenellenbogen is a 92 year old Jewish man who lives in Israel and returned in May 2018 for the first time to the Berlin apartment where he had lived until 1939, when he fled the Nazis, aged 12, with his parents.
That was my apartment. This is the story of his return.
Read MoreGerman judge takes stand against xenophobic violence
Court finds anti-refugee group guilty of terrorism, attempted murder
Read MoreGermany Sends Positive Signal on Defending Rights in Europe
Why its important that the German Bundestag dropped two controversial MPs from its delegation to the Council of Europe
Read MoreWhy I became a German after Brexit
STasi: The ex files
To many people, Germany’s reckoning with the past dramatized in the Oscar-winning ‘The Lives of Others’ has been exemplary.But is it time to close to book?
Read MoreGermans aim for a World Cup surprise: they’re fun
For the host country Germany, next month’s football World Cup is about a lot more than its (pretty slim) chances of lifting the trophy. An image overhaul for Europe’s largest economy is the prize in its sights.
Read MoreFirst female chancellor plays it cool
Journalists at Merkel's first press conference as chancellor found it hard to catch her off guard
Read MoreAngela Merkel: A tenacious contender
My profile of Merkel after she had been named as the CDU candidate to take on Chancellor Schröder in 2005.
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