1. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    In der Nacht stimmte dann auch das Oberhaus der Gesetzesvorlage zu. Nun muss noch König Charles III. das Gesetz mit seiner Unterschrift in Kraft setzen. [...] Der Europäische Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte (EGMR) hatte das Vorhaben per einstweiliger Verfügung bisher gestoppt. In Zukunft will Sunak Einsprüche des Gerichtshofs ignorieren – und sieht sein Land wegen des neuen Gesetzes trotzdem...

  2. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    ist laut EGMR Menschenrecht. Welche praktischen Konsequenzen hat das auf nationaler Ebene? Können uns Gerichtsurteile allein retten? Wenige Tage, nachdem der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR) in Straßburg am Beispiel der Schweiz klargestellt hat, dass Defizite beim Klimaschutz Menschenrechte verletzen können, macht Bundesverkehrsminister Volker Wissing (FDP) den Deutschen Angst...

  3. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    kritisiert, dass die Bundesregierung die Abgabenordnung bisher nicht geändert hat. Der Bundesfinanzhof habe bei seiner Entscheidung klar gesagt, wer das Engagement für Demokratie, Menschenrechte oder soziale Gerechtigkeit fördern wolle, müsse diese Zwecke als gemeinnützig festhalten. Das dies noch nicht passiert ist, führe zum Scheitern vieler Vereine. Sein bitteres Fazit: »Engagement für...

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    Newsletter Some of the incidents were never made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

  5. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    US Senator Bernie Sanders is now taking up the issue. He calls for a "revolution in American foreign policy" that replaces "greed, militarism and hypocrisy" with "solidarity, diplomacy and human rights"... * Israel | Gaza | Famine UN Food Security Standards: What exactly is a famine? UN aid agencies warn of famine in the Gaza Strip. It would be the biggest...

  6. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    ntv.de says. At the same time, Höcke is now "the central leader within the AfD, even if he has no office at the federal level," says lawyer Hendrik Cremer from the German Institute for Human Rights. The radicalization of the party can be traced from Höcke's position in the AfD... * March 12, 2011 (INES 3) Akw Fukushima II Daini, JPN Wikipedia...

  7. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    in der „Gazeta Wyborcza“ verhöhnte er (Piotr Niemczyk, Ex-Direktor eines polnischen Geheimdienstes) frühzeitig seine ehemaligen Kollegen für ihr Vorgehen. Dass sich ein „russischer Spion“ für Menschenrechte einsetze und Flüchtlinge unterstütze, die vor Putin fliehen, kommt ihm ziemlich spanisch vor. „Kein russischer Spion, getarnt als Journalist, würde sich erlauben, zwei Pässe und Kreditkarten...

  8. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    Yes, there are also other memorials from bad times in Germany, and in the end it may always remind you of what you can do better."... February 19th FDP | Supply chain | Palm oil Human rights in palm oil production: Margarine with an aftertaste A new one Report shows: Palm oil production endangers people in Central America. Aldi has already blocked a supplier. BERLIN...

  9. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    effort to get back on his feet. He could have strengthened the opposition from here. But that seemed to him to be too little support for his own people who are fighting for democracy, human rights and civil liberties. Now he is apparently dead. You can trust Putin with anything, really anything. One can assume that Navalny, who has the hope of a free Russian society...

  10. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    against the NPD (which has renamed itself “Die Heimat”), which withdraws party funding, shows what is necessary to ban a party. A report from the Institute for Human Rights already confirms that the AfD meets all of the criteria. But many are still skeptical - the AfD could fulfill all the criteria - above all the political significance that the NPD lacked - except for "the aggressive,...

  11. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    British government will deport him under an extradition agreement between the USA and Great Britain. If he fails in February, an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights is still possible. [...] Of all those present, it is David Davis who, as a Tory, is most likely to be heard in government circles. “Everyone, regardless of color, politics, origin or religion, deserves...

  12. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    allowed so that every transaction is recorded... * Guatemala | land rights | Indigenous mining in Guatemala Indigenous people have a say in land use The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has granted land rights to an indigenous people in Guatemala. The verdict could have a signal effect for all of Latin America. The needs of states, companies and the population are...

  13. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    The ministry spoke of “terrorist targets in northern Syria and Iraq.” According to a journalist from the AFP news agency and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, two oil sites were attacked in northern Syria near the border with Turkey. Turkey: Twelve soldiers killed in northern Iraq Previously, two attacks on Turkish...

  14. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    Consumers in Europe should be better protected from high electricity prices in the future. There is also a breakthrough in a uniform supply chain law - with this the EU wants to strengthen human rights worldwide. The EU has agreed on two important legislative proposals: The electricity market in Europe is to be reformed, and the EU will also receive a uniform supply chain law. On it have...

  15. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    to convey a message to his followers and the Islamic world. He took advantage of the fact that the repressive regime he had established in Turkey was not mentioned at all to portray himself as a defender of human rights. Even before he was back in Turkey, the local press, which was loyal to him, had the headline: "Erdoğan makes a historic announcement for Germany"... The Turkish press did not present the...

  16. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    also document the dark side of Kissinger's controversial time in office: his role in the overthrow of democracy and the rise of dictatorship in Chile, his contempt for human rights and his support for dirty and even genocidal wars abroad, secret bombing campaigns in Southeast Asia, his involvement in the criminal machinations of the Nixon administration,...

  17. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    he says. Anyone who opens the door halfway should not be surprised if uninvited guests accept the invitation. Melcer will hang up new Israel flags again... * Israel | Gaza | Conflict | Human Rights Positions on the Middle East Conflict: Unease in Remembrance One month after the terrorist attack on Israel, the fronts in remembrance and protest seem to have hardened. What would be a wide...

  18. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    can penetrate, the station showed 639 micrograms per cubic meter of air - a multiple of the limit values ​​still considered acceptable by the World Health Organization (WHO)... * UN | Human Rights | resignation | Palestine "Thousands of civilians are being murdered in the Gaza Strip" Telepolis documents: letter of resignation from the head of the OHCHR representation in New York. UN official speaks...

  19. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    Grammar of Trauma and History," responded to Klein's accusation of anti-Semitism in a guest article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The Israeli government, according to Goldberg, fights human rights, democracy and equality and propagates the opposite: "authoritarianism, discrimination, racism and apartheid." "Accusing Israel of apartheid is not anti-Semitic. It...

  20. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    and the European Union do not look away or remain neutral, but support the State of Israel in its apartheid and occupation policies, which constitute a serious violation of human rights," said Belarra. "Hamas as a pretext for the murder of thousands of Palestinian civilians, including Using children is unspeakable hypocrisy on both Israel's part...

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