Since the results of the latest Presidential elections were announced, I am longing for silence, while the overwhelming cacophony of deafening noises is assaulting my ears, and in fact all my senses.
Suddenly everyone around me wants to speak, to shout, and to declare. Lately, people who are surrounding me, as well as those who are far away from me are frantically watching the news, reading newspapers and browsing through countless political websites.
Der Zusammenschluss sozialer Bewegungen und politischer Gruppen aus Lateinamerika, „ArticulaciĂłn Continental de Movimientos Sociales hacia el Alba“, organisiert fĂŒr den 1. bis 4. Dezember die zweite amerikaweite Versammlung seiner Delegierten in Kolumbien.
Jeremy Barrios worked for a prominent human rights and environmental activist who has survived at least one assassination attempt.
The recent murder of a Guatemalan human rights defender has cast a sombre shadow over social movements, signaling the increasingly hostile and too often fatally dangerous environment faced by human rights workers in the Central American country, international organizations warned Wednesday.
More than 100 Honduran and international human rights and social justice organizations have thrown their support behind a newly launched independent investigation, led by international legal experts, into the murder of renowned Indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres.
Der internationale Strafgerichtshof war seit seiner GrĂŒndung ausschlieĂlich in Afrika tĂ€tig und wird vielleicht zögern, es mit einem so groĂen Brocken wie den Folterpraktiken der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika aufzunehmen, besonders wo US-Gesetze geplant sind, die die Vollmacht fĂŒr einen militĂ€rischen Ăberfall auf die Niederlande erteilen, um ICC-Verfahren gegen Amerikaner zu verhindern.
Die unter dem Label „Internationale Dissidenz“ firmierenden Arbeitsgruppen sind Teil des ebenfalls an der Frankfurter UniversitĂ€t beheimateten Exzellenzclusters „Die Herausbildung Normativer Ordnungen“, der vom deutschen Staat mit Millionensummen finanziert wird
Er wĂŒnschte, er könnte den Preis persönlich entgegennehmen, aber andere Verpflichtungen machen das leider unmöglich. Er betonte, dass er sich durch den Nobelpreis sehr geehrt fĂŒhlt.
Die Demonstration wurde auf den belgischen nationalen Feiertag âFest des Königsâ gelegt. Der Grund dafĂŒr ist, dass es belgischen MilitĂ€rs verboten ist, Proteste abzuhalten. Allerdings dĂŒrfen sie sich an Feiertagen an Demonstrationen beteiligen.
More than 8,000 servicemen and women marched through Brussels in a show of defiance against their politicians‘ decision to keep them in work until the age of 63 â the current retirement age is 56.
Die von der Russischen Föderation getroffene Entscheidung, nicht Mitglied des Statuts des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs zu werden, mit anderen Worten die eigene Unterschrift unter diesem Dokument abzurufen, wird rechtliche Folgen haben, die im Wiener Ăbereinkommen ĂŒber das Recht der VertrĂ€ge von 1969 vorgesehen sind.
âWir wissen nicht, woher Elizabeth Trudeau ihre Informationen ĂŒber das Geschehen in Syrien beziehtâ, sagte dazu Konaschenkow. âEine Wiederholung von GerĂŒchten ĂŒber irgendwelche, heute zerbombte âfĂŒnf KrankenhĂ€userâ und ein âFeldlazarettâ bestĂ€tigen nur, dass sich die gesamte öffentliche Rhetorik des US-AuĂenministeriums ĂŒber die Lage in Syrien auf freche LĂŒgen stĂŒtzt.â
(10.10.2016) Die Kriegsverbrechen in Syrien seien „offensichtlich“: Wegen der Luftangriffe auf Aleppo fordert Frankreich den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof zum Eingreifen auf. Der Schritt richtet sich vor allem gegen Russland.
Zuletzt hatten mehrere afrikanische LĂ€nder ihren RĂŒckzug vom IStGH in Den Haag angekĂŒndigt, darunter Gambia und SĂŒdafrika. Einige afrikanische Staaten werfen dem Gerichtshof eine «postkoloniale» Voreingenommenheit gegenĂŒber Politikern des Kontinents vor.
Die Regierung in Moskau hat die Unterschrift Russlands unter das Rom-Statut des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofes (IStGH/ICC) in Den Haag zurĂŒckgezogen. Das russische AuĂenministerium erklĂ€rte am Mittwoch, dies geschehe auf Anordnung von PrĂ€sident Wladimir Putin.
Auf einmal spricht der amerikanische PrĂ€sident im Namen seines ungeliebten Nachfolgers Donald Trump und versucht, die VerbĂŒndeten zu beruhigen. Was hat denn das zu bedeuten?
Roderich Kiesewetter, foreign policy spokesman for the conservative bloc in parliament, told Reuters that Germany could play an important role in convincing nuclear powers France and Britain to provide security guarantees for all of Europe.
Bis zu 980 deutsche Soldatinnen und Soldaten werden im Rahmen der Nato-Mission Resolute Support afghanische SicherheitskrĂ€fte beraten, unterstĂŒtzen und ausbilden. Im Schwerpunkt bilden sie in Kabul einheimische SicherheitskrĂ€fte aus. In Mazar-e-Sharif betreiben sie den militĂ€rischen Anteil des dortigen Flugplatzes. Das Mandat, dem der Bundestag noch zustimmen muss, ist bis zum 31. Dezember 2017 befristet.
„Negotiations are hugely complex… They are going to take a lot longer that two years“, Dutch Finance Minister Dijsselbloem said at an event in London, adding that both sides were viewing each other with „some suspicion“.
„We wasted too much time because some thought the the culture of austerity should win and so public investments in Italy were halved, with suicidal philosophical reasoning that led to a 20 billion euro reduction in funding,“ Renzi said during a visit to Caltanissetta. „We won‘t let Italy make the mistakes of the past when it was decided that public works should be cut.“
Gozi said Rome was effectively vetoing the revision because it considers unacceptable the failure to guarantee funding increases „for our priorities“ – migration, security, youth unemployment and research programmes.
âWhat is the weight of Obamaâs words in Washington and Europe?â German state broadcaster ZDF wondered.
President Tayyip Erdogan could govern Turkey until 2029 with expanded executive powers under proposals the ruling AK Party hopes will go to a referendum next spring, officials who have seen the latest draft told Reuters on Wednesday.
Senior US District Judge Berle Schiller has ordered documents as well as any records to be turned over no later than early next year. In case the agencies believe that this information should not be publicly disclosed, they must also provide justification of that.
The government of Cameroon has launched a campaign against social media, which according to the government-controlled daily, Cameroon Tribune, is âfast becoming a threat to peace and a secret instrument of manipulationâ promoting âcharacter destruction, destabilisation of public opinion and deformation of facts among others.â
Oxford Dictionaries has declared „post-truth“ as its 2016 international word of the year, reflecting what it called a „highly-charged“ political 12 months.
In its response on Oettingerâs plane trip, the commission said that, âdue to the lack of commercial flights to arrive in time for the meeting with prime minister [Viktor] Orban [of Hungary], the commissioner responsible for digital economy and society [Oettinger] joined Mr Mangoldâs private plane.â
Einiges spricht dafĂŒr, dass seit dreieinhalb Jahren, in denen die Republik nach unserer Analyse bereits auĂer Funktion gesetzt ist, ein von Anfang an festgeschriebenes Drehbuch ablĂ€uft, in dem sich scheinbar heftig bekĂ€mpfende oder im Gegensatz befindliche staatliche Stellen in hegelianischer Dialektik gegenseitig die BĂ€lle zuspielen und versuchen die Bevölkerung auszutricksen und um ihre Demokratie zu betrĂŒgen.
Notice finally who will be judging whom. The âofferâ functions as an implied threat: If Donald Trump fails to meet the values-standard defined and assessed by Angela Merkel, the âofferâ will be withdrawn.
Itâs quite a thing for a German chancellor to impose conditions on the U.S.-Germany relationship. During the Cold War, West Germany depended on the United States for security against the Soviet Union. In the fateful years 1989-1991, American policy enabled German reunification despite the qualms of other close U.S. allies, France and Britain. (A Frenchman, Francois Mauriac, is credited with the quip, âI love Germany so much, I am glad there are two of them.â) But since 1991, Germany has not needed the United States so muchâand Germans have felt freer to express old resentments of their former protector.
âThere was no need for the Swedish authorities to delay for over 1,000 days before agreeing to carry out this interview, given that the Swedish authorities regularly question people in Britain,â noted Ecuadorâs foreign minister.
A report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) last month revealed how a CIA-funded tool, Geofeedia, was already being used by police to conduct surveillance of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to monitor activists and protesters.
She added that more talks related to defense arrangements in South Korea are likely to occur in the future. This includes costs related to the upcoming deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense anti-missile system, and possibly accelerating the transfer of wartime operation control from US to South Korea.
But Stephens stressed it is âtruly unpredictable what kind of president he would be,â as the panels agreed Trumpâs administration will likely spark many questions.
The comments signal continuing Chinese support for Damascus in the war-torn area, against a backdrop of Russia and the United States brokering a fragile truce, and beliefs that incoming US president Donald Trump might reduce US military involvement in the Middle East.