7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

How will they implement Magnitsky sanctions in future?

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

The atrocious crimes in Myanmar may amount to genocide

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

Europe’s human rights court has ruled that an Austrian heterosexual couple can’t opt for a „lighter“ civil partnership. Unlike gay couples, they don’t face discrimination, the court ruled.

Austrian pair Helga Ratzenböck and Martin Seydl’s bid since 2010 to get their stable relationship registered as a „lighter“ civil-law partnership instead of marriage failed Thursday to convince the Strasbourg court.

Jagaddhatri

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

Proteste gegen den Österreichischen Integrationsfonds

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

The opening session of the Pledge Conference on #Rohingya is now going LIVE

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

South Korea is looking into the whereabouts of a North Korean defector couple amid speculation that they may have voluntarily returned to North Korea via China, Seoul’s unification ministry said Monday.

A local cable TV channel reported Sunday that the 30-something defector couple could not be reached after they left for China in mid-October.

Kyaw Lwin, the state minister, confirmed the plans, and said there was a total of 45,000 acres of “ownerless Bengali land”.

The machines will be able to harvest about 14,400 acres according to official calculations contained in the plans. It is unclear what will become of the remaining crop, but officials told Reuters they would try to harvest all the paddy, recruiting additional labor to harvest manually if necessary.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) deputy Asia director Phil Robertson, said the government should at least guarantee that the rice would be used for humanitarian support and not for profit.

Those who do decide to cross back into Myanmar will first be received at one of two centers, according to government plans reviewed by Reuters, before mostly being relocated to model villages.

International donors, who have fed and cared for more than 120,000 mostly Rohingya “internally displaced persons” (IDPs) in supposedly temporary camps in Rakhine since violence in 2012, have told Myanmar that they will not support more camps, according to aid workers and diplomats.

The hamlets where Rohingya farmers lived were “not systematic”, and so should be rebuilt in smaller settlements of 1,000 households set out in straight rows to enable development, said Soe Aung, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement.

“In some villages there are three houses here, four houses over there. For example, there’s no road for fire engines when fire burns the villages,” Soe Aung said.

Why we stand up for human rights | Read #Zeid’s lecture at @JBI_HumanRights here:

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

DFID’s work on Bangladesh, Burma and the Rohingya crisis

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

Give a LIKE: To the Friends of Uyghurs newly formed #Friendship Group!

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

We will continue to monitor the outcome of the 19th Party Congress given that its leader regards himself as acting outside universal human rights norms and does not tolerate any threats to his rule. As China seeks to export its model of governance to the rest of the world, it is our hope that the international community will join us in denouncing a vision of China that puts power over its people.

Startquartier – Austrian Refugee Academy

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS




The two claimants, both domestic workers from Morocco who sought to stop state immunity applying to their claims, were represented by specialist charity Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit (ATLEU).

The claimants were employed directly by Libya and Sudan respectively. They claimed that they were paid grossly under the national minimum wage, forced to work unlawful hours, unfairly dismissed and, in Ms Janah’s case, discriminated against on racial grounds.

In addition, in preventing the claimants from bringing claims on the ground that they were neither British nationals nor permanently resident in the UK at the start of their employment, the Act unlawfully discriminated against the Claimants on the grounds of nationality, contrary to article 14 ECHR.

If UN concludes genocide is happening, UK will support referral to International Criminal Court:

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

Gen Min Aung Hlaing has in the past year visited Germany, Austria, Italy and Brussels — as well as India and Japan. In May, he hosted Gen Mikhail Kostarakos, chairman of the European Union Military Committee, in Myanmar.

The EU has also invested significant civilian aid in Myanmar, including police training that came under scrutiny after a violent clampdown on student protesters in 2015. Brussels is also in talks with Myanmar for an investment protection agreement for EU companies, which figure prominently in the influx of foreign businesses, notably in consumer industries.

“The response of the international community has been very tepid; they have been hamstrung by their wish not to harm what they call the democratic transition in Myanmar,” said Richard Weir, a researcher with Human Rights Watch, the New York-based campaign group, speaking before the EU announcement. “But look at the fruit it has borne: ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.”

#

Asylbescheid: Umzug einer Österreicherin nach Afghanistan sei „zumutbar“

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

R. lernte den 25-Jährigen 2015 am Wiener Hauptbahnhof kennen: „Ich hab’ dort bei der Flüchtlingsbetreuung geholfen“, erzählt sie.
 
Er versucht, sich in Österreich zu integrieren, besucht Deutschkurse und absolviert eine Lehre als Koch. Außerdem hat er Anschluss an Hannahs Familie und Freunde – ein Fotoalbum mit Bildern aus dem Alltag illustriert dies. Dennoch steht im Bescheid des Bundesamts für Fremdenwesen und Asyl: „Es bestehen keine besonderen sozialen Kontakte, die Sie an Österreich bänden.“ Zu seiner Beziehung mit Hannah hieß es, er habe „sein Familienleben in einem Zeitraum gegründet“, in dem der Ausgang des Verfahrens nicht feststand.
 
Hannah R. ärgert sich: „Wir waren optimistisch, da er ja eindeutig einen Fluchtgrund hatte.“ Im Juli hatte Edris F. die erste Einvernahme: „Man hat ihm nicht zugehört und auch die Dolmetscherin war nicht entsprechend qualifiziert. Sie konnte nicht einmal seinen Bescheid aus dem Krankenhaus verstehen“, sagt Hannah.
j

Ethnic Uyghur Women and children from Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture, in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, are being forced to endure heavy labor to make up for wages lost by the men in their families who are detained in re-education camps, according to sources.

The camps are labeled “career development centers” in a bid to mask their true nature, they said, but the detainees held there are rarely freed, despite undergoing months of “training.”

In the hallways of the annual meetings this week, some staff members have voiced concern that a failure to secure more money from shareholders — an outcome made likelier by a skeptical U.S. government — could mean job cuts in the future.

Others suggest the stakes are considerably lower, and that the bank should not forfeit too much in its quest to win U.S. support.

#

EU fails to act against ethnic cleansing of Rohingya

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

We completed a #Uyghur Youth Advocacy Training Workshop w/ @UNPOintl

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

Deutschkurse für Asylwerber: Wie es weitergeht, ist unklar

7 Jahren
by in SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS, NEWS

« Previous
Next »
Go to Top