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Greece’s economic crisis has deepened since it was bailed out by the international community in 2010. The country underwent the sixth consecutive year of economic contraction in 2013, with its economy shrinking by 20% between 2008 and 2012, and anaemic or no growth projected for 2014.

Systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations have been and are being committed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, its institutions and officials. In many instances, the violations of human rights found by the commission constitute crimes against humanity.

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“Ethnic cleansing” of Muslims has been carried out in the western part of the Central African Republic, the most populous part of the country, since early January 2014. Entire Muslim communities have been forced to flee, and hundreds of Muslim civilians who have not managed to escape have been killed by the loosely organised militias known as anti-balaka. 

Die von „Reporter ohne Grenzen“ (ROG) veröffentlichte Rangliste zeigt, wie stark die Dominanz der Sicherheitsbehörden die Arbeit von Journalisten in vielen Ländern erschwert. Besonders besorgniserregend ist, dass diese Entwicklung sogar traditionelle Demokratien erfasst hat.

Russian laws choking free speech must be repealed now

Policy background and objectives of the Report

Strafanzeige

1.         der Internationalen Liga für Menschenrechte e.V., Berlin, Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, Greifswalder Str. 4, 10405 Berlin,

Fünf Jahrzehnte Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz spiegeln ein gutes Stück Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: von der Verteidigung des Westens hin zur globalen Ordnungspolitik und von der Wehrkunde zu einem umfassenden Sicherheitsbegriff. Was für ein Bogen!

Foreword

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans:

Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift America’s graduation rate to its highest level in more than three decades.

In der aktuellen Debatte um das neue deutsche Mindestlohnmodell mehren sich Forderungen von Politikern und Arbeitgeberverbänden, die für zahlreiche Arbeitnehmergruppen Ausnahmeregelungen festlegen wollen. Genannt werden geringfügig Beschäftigte, erwerbstätige Rentner, Schüler, Studenten, Langzeitarbeitslose, Saisonkräfte und Hilfsarbeiter.

EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht today announced his decision to consult the public on the investment provisions of a future EU-US trade deal, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The decision follows unprecedented public interest in the talks.

Der BTI 2014 kann trotz der politischen Umbrüche im arabischen Raum keine positive Transformationsbilanz ziehen. Während die gesellschaftliche Polarisierung und der Einfluss religiöser Dogmen wachsen, sinkt die Fähigkeit zu effektivem Konfliktmanagement. Zudem bleiben Ungleichheit und Armut in mehr als der Hälfte aller Länder ausgeprägt.

The Transnational Institute is proud to launch its third annual ‘State of Power’ report as the World Economic Forum meets in Davos. This anthology exposes and analyses the principal power-brokers, members of the “Davos class”, who have caused financial, economic, social and ecological crises worldwide.

In November 2013, the World Economic Forum released its ‘Outlook on the Global Agenda 2014’, in which it ranked widening income disparities as the second greatest worldwide risk in the coming 12 to 18 months.

We herewith file a communication to the OTP of the ICC under Article 15 of the ICC Statute10 requesting that the Prosecutor examine the situation in Iraq from 2003-2008 with regard to the responsibility of UK military and civilian officials for the abuse and killing of detainees in their custody amounting to war crimes.

The share of countries with a high or very high level of social hostilities involving religion reached a six-year peak in 2012, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. A third (33%) of the 198 countries and territories included in the study had high religious hostilities in 2012, up from 29% in 2011 and 20% as of mid-2007.

Global unemployment increased by 5 million people in 2013...

At the dawn of our Republic, a small, secret surveillance committee borne out of the "The Sons of Liberty" was established in Boston. The group's members included Paul Revere, and at night they would patrol the streets, reporting back any signs that the British were preparing raids against America's early Patriots.

Unter welchen Voraussetzungen dürfen Rumänen und Bulgaren nach Deutschland einreisen?

Freihandelsabkommen zwischen USA und EU stoppen!

Die geplante Wirtschaftszone des TTIP-Vertrages gefährdet grundlegende Arbeitsstandards. Ein Aufruf zum Widerstand

On June 5, 2013, the Guardian broke the first story in what would become a flood of revelations regarding the extent and nature of the NSA’s surveillance programs. Facing an uproar over the threat such programs posed to privacy, the Obama administration scrambled to defend them as legal and essential to U.S. national security and counterterrorism.

Deutschland hat seit dem Jahr 2006 Wertverluste von mehr als zwanzig Prozent der jährlichen Wirtschaftsleistung auf sein Nettoauslandsvermögen erlitten. War dies Zufall, oder steckt mehr dahinter? Die Frage ist nicht einfach zu beantworten. Im Zeitablauf schwankende Vermögens-bewertungen sind an sich nichts Ungewöhnliches; Verluste können sich rasch in Gewinne umwandeln, und umgekehrt.