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Nach Einschätzung der Schulleitungen in Deutschland wurde fast ein Drittel der Schülerinnen und Schüler während der Schulschließungen aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie im Frühjahr 2020 nicht regelmäßig persönlich erreicht. 

Als den Fernunterricht beeinträchtigende Faktoren nennen die Schulleitungen besonders die mangelnde Ausstattung mit digitalen Geräten in den Familien der Schülerinnen und Schüler.

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The number of countries announcing pledges to achieve net-zero emissions over the coming decades continues to grow. But the pledges by governments to date – even if fully achieved – fall well short of what is required to bring global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050 and give the world an even chance of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 °C.

World Health Organization (WHO) and International Labour Organization (ILO) systematic reviews reported sufficient evidence for higher risks of ischemic heart disease and stroke amongst people working long hours (≥55 hours/week), compared with people working standard hours (35–40 hours/week).

COVID-19 remains a global disaster. Worse, it was a preventable disaster. That is why the recommendations of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response are urgent and vital. The world needs a new international system for pandemic preparedness and response, and it needs one fast, to stop future infectious disease outbreaks from becoming catastrophic pandemics.

Im Jahr 2020 ist die Zahl der Beratungsanfragen bei der Antidiskriminierungsstelle im Vergleich zum Vorjahr so stark gestiegen wie nie zuvor. Insgesamt hat die Stelle im vergangenen Jahr in 6383 Fällen rechtliche Auskunft erteilt, Stellungnahmen eingeholt oder gütliche Einigungen vermittelt. Damit ist die Gesamtzahl der Anfragen im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 78,3 Prozent gestiegen (2019: 3580 Fälle). Vor allem die Zahl der Anfragen zu Diskriminierungen aufgrund der ethnischen Herkunft bzw.

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Germany has experienced three major economic slumps with strikingly different labour market outcomes: the long-lasting economic stagnation following the economic downturn after the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the first Gulf war (Herzog-Stein, Lindner, and Zwiener 2013), the Great Recession as a consequence of the global financial and economic crisis (Herzog-Stein, Lindner, and Sturn 2018), and now the Coronavirus Crisis as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The physical drivers of Arctic change continue to change rapidly. Key indicators such as temperature, precipitation, snow cover, sea ice thickness and extent, and permafrost thaw show rapid and widespread changes underway in the Arctic. An important update is that the increase in Arctic annual mean surface temperature (land and ocean) between 1971 and 2019 was three times higher than the increase in the global average during the same period. This is higher than reported in previous AMAP assessments.

Today humanity is facing three systemic and escalating planetary crises: the climate crisis, the biodiversity and nature crisis, and the pollution and waste crisis. These
crises are not independent but linked and often stem from the same sources and unsustainable models of consumption and production. These links provide an opportunity to identify and deploy solutions which deliver multiple-benefits and the ambitious emissions reductions needed to overcome these crises.

Menschen mit Schwerbehinderung stoßen in ihrem Alltag häufig auf Barrieren, denen sich viele Bürger*innen mangels persönlicher Erfahrung nicht bewusst sind. Diese Barrieren können in unterschiedlichen Bereichen auftreten und vom jeweiligen Lebensabschnitt der betroffenen Person abhängig sein.

Die Wissenschaftliche Erklärung über freie und treue gleichgeschlechtliche Beziehungen, unter der Schirmherrschaft des Wijngaards Institute for the Catholic Research erstellt, erfasst den Bedarf für diese entscheidende Stunde der christlichen Geschichte prophetisch.

This is Your Deterrence Failure: Confront It

Mit heute veröffentlichtem Beschluss hat der Erste Senat des Bundesverfassungsgerichts entschieden, dass die Regelungen des Klimaschutzgesetzes vom 12. Dezember 2019 (Klimaschutzgesetz <KSG>) über die nationalen Klimaschutzziele und die bis zum Jahr 2030 zulässigen Jahresemissionsmengen insofern mit Grundrechten unvereinbar sind, als hinreichende Maßgaben für die weitere Emissionsreduktion ab dem Jahr 2031 fehlen. Im Übrigen wurden die Verfassungsbeschwerden zurückgewiesen.

I stand here tonight, one day shy of the 100th day of my administration — 100 days since I took the oath of office and lifted my hand off our family Bible and inherited a nation — we all did — that was in crisis.

The worst pandemic in a century.  The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.  The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.

Die Aussage der Bundeskanzlerin im Dezember letzten Jahres, nach der sie eine Vermögensabgabe von Spitzenverdiener:innen und Wohlhabenden zur Finanzierung der Milliardenkosten für den Kampf gegen die COVID-19 Pandemie strikt ablehne, hat uns bestürzt.

Die Arbeitsgruppe Alternative Wirtschaftspolitik (AAW e.V.) legt nach ihrer Gründung 1975 ihr 45. Gegengutachten zum neoliberal orientierten „Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung“ (SVR) vor.

World military expenditure in 2020 is estimated to have been $1981 billion, the highest level since 1988—the earliest year for which SIPRI has a consistent estimate for total global military spending. World military expenditure in 2020 was 2.6 per cent higher in real terms than in 2019 and 9.3 per cent higher than in 2011. The global military burden—world military expenditure as a share of global gross domestic product (GDP)—rose by 0.2 percentage points in 2020, to 2.4 per cent.

Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination. We honor the victims of the Meds Yeghern so that the horrors of what happened are never lost to history.

If COVID-19 has taught us nothing else, it is that we need a new approach to caring for each other in this country. And there is no better time to raise these issues than in the months leading up to an election. We need to insist on an alternative path, one based on a new vision of the role of care in Canada.

The chronic failure to adequately deal with care issues reflects several assumptions that must be challenged.

Ein Jahr nach Beginn der Corona-Pandemie stehen Journalistinnen und Journalisten in vielen Teilen der Welt so stark unter Druck wie selten zuvor. Informationssperren und staatliche Desinformation, willkürliche Festnahmen und Gewalt gegen Medienschaffende schränkten die Pressefreiheit auf allen Kontinenten ein.

In 2020, COVID-19 added a new and unwelcome dimension to weather, climate and water-related hazards, with wide-ranging combined impacts on human health and well-beingaccording to a new report compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and an extensive network of partners. Mobility restrictions, economic downturns and disruptions to the agricultural sector exacerbated the effects of extreme weather and climate events along the entire food supply chain, elevating levels of food insecurity and slowing the delivery of humanitarian assistance.

Mit dem Beschluss vom 25. März 2021 hat der Zweite Senat des Bundesverfassungsgerichts das Gesetz zur Mietenbegrenzung im Wohnungswesen in Berlin (MietenWoG Bln) für mit dem Grundgesetz unvereinbar und deshalb nichtig erklärt.

Around the world, forests and other natural ecosystems like grasslands, wetlands and savannahs continue to be destroyed at an alarming rate. This contributes to climate change and the loss of biodiversity and the vital services that nature provides. The expansion of agriculture in tropical regions remains the biggest threat to forests and other natural ecosystems, leading to the conversion of around 5 million hectares of forests into agricultural land per year between 2005 and 2017.

I’m now the fourth United States President to preside over American troop presence in Afghanistan: two Republicans, two Democrats. I will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth.

After consulting closely with our allies and partners, with our military leaders and intelligence personnel, with our diplomats and our development experts, with the Congress and the Vice President, as well as with Mr. Ghani and many others around the world, I have concluded that it’s time to end America’s longest war.  It’s time for American troops to come home.

Nearly half of women in 57 developing countries are denied the right to decide whether to have sex with their partners, use contraception or seek health care, according to UNFPA's 2021 flagship State of World Population report.

1. The Director-General of the OPCW Technical Secretariat established the Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) pursuant to the Decision by the Conference of the States Parties entitled “Addressing the Threat from Chemical Weapons Use” (C-SS-4/DEC.3, dated 27 June 2018).