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Dimitar Gardev, the candidate of the party 'There is such a people' for the post of Bulgaria's new foreign minister, appears to have lied in his official CV about the position he had held as a European Parliament employee, EURACTIV Bulgaria reported on Tuesday (7 December).

JOJ TV: Súlyos közlekedési baleset történt Érsekújvárban – összeütközött egy furgon és egy tehergépkocsi. Hat sérültje van a karambolnak, valamennyiüket kórházba vitték a mentők.

In Pandemie-Zeiten sind Videokonferenzen en vogue – auch bei Staatschefs. Beratungen über Ukraine-Konflikt zwischen den Präsidenten Biden und Putin dauerten rund zwei Stunden. Thema: Der Ukraine-Konflikt.

444.hu: Lejárt kétszázezer Szputynik vakcina, ezért megsemmisítették, ismerte el az RTL Klub Híradójának a magyarországi Koronavírus Sajtóközpont. Bár a kormányzati kommunikáció arról szólt, hogy elfogyott az orosz oltóanyag, az Európai Betegségmegelőzési és Járványügyi Központ készletnyilvántartásából tudni, hogy a leszállított 2 millió adagból 1,8 milliót használt fel Magyarország. Az utolsó 200 ezer Szputnyik május 11-én érkezett és november elejéig lehetett volna felhasználni.

Depuis ses débuts, le tourisme spatial est la chasse gardée des super riches. Mais pourrait-il cesser d'être un terrain de jeu pour les riches, et cela constituerait-il un pas de géant pour l'environnement ?

Mit St. Gallen verzichtet ein weiterer Kanton auf strengere Corona-Massnahmen bei freiwilliger 2G-Regel in Restaurants, Bars und Clubs. Nur Basel-Stadt bleibt dabei.

Immer mehr Menschen hoffen in Brüssel auf einen Asylantrag und eine Unterkunft. Doch die Auffangeinrichtungen sind überlastet, viele übernachten auf der Straße. #BrusselsBureau

Es kommt immer darauf an, wie lange man auf das Resultat des PCR-Tests warten kann. Soll es am Flughafen Zürich in der Not ganz schnell gehen, muss man tief in die Taschen greifen.

Les élus veulent un gouvernement plus actif pour défendre les entreprises et les administrations. Mais ils évitent le clash frontal au parlement.

Eine Studie aus Südafrika zeigt auf, weshalb die Omikron-Variante des Coronavirus so ansteckend ist. US-Forschende haben zeitgleich einen genetischen Aspekt des Virus entdeckt.

Nincs egyetértés a koronavírus elleni oltás kötelezővé tételéről az Andrej Babiš ügyvezető cseh kormányfő vezette leköszönő, illetve a Petr Fiala kinevezett kormányfő most formálódó kabinetje között.

On 10-12 December, the European Citizens’ Panel on "European democracy / Values and rights, rule of law, security" will meet for the third and final time.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

On 10-12 December, the European Citizens’ Panel on "European democracy / Values and rights, rule of law, security" will meet for the third and final time.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

On 10-12 December, the European Citizens’ Panel on "European democracy / Values and rights, rule of law, security" will meet for the third and final time.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

On 10-12 December, the European Citizens’ Panel on "European democracy / Values and rights, rule of law, security" will meet for the third and final time.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

By Anila Noor, Eliasib Amet Herrera and Shaza Alrihawi
Displaced, Dec 7 2021 (IPS)

Over the past two years, the global refugee response has been tested. The world is being rocked by the greatest pandemic in over a century, while waves of refugees have fled from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Belarus, and Tigray. So, where do we go from here? Next week, the international community will convene to take stock of the successes and shortcomings of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), a unique multilateral mechanism built to ensure the protection of one of the most vulnerable populations. This marquee Compact is up for review, but unlike other review processes, the participation of the people whose lives are shaped by the decisions to be made in the review process will be marginal. Unfortunately, only 1 in 50 of the invited attendees at the UNHCR High-Level Official’s Meeting (HLOM) to discuss the GCR are refugees.

Anila Noor

Decades of sideling refugees in discussions around migration and policies that impact their lives and futures has resulted in many failed policies. Refugees have been deprived of civil and political rights – and are therefore regularly excluded from multilateral arenas by their host country and/or their country of origin. The exclusive structures of international diplomacy exacerbate this culture of exclusion. Thanks to the work of the Global Refugee-Led Network (GRN), other refugee-led organizations and their allies, we are achieving more meaningful participation. Yet the fact that UNHCR’s highest-level meeting this year only includes 2% refugee representation indicates that we have considerable work to do to realize the GCR’s commitment to meaningfully engage refugees in policy processes. For us at the GRN, meaningful engagement requires active participation and inclusion in international and domestic conversations and policy decisions to account for a fuller range of the refugee experience and identities.

We urge the international community to raise the bar. UNHCR should commit to 25% refugee participation in the 2023 Global Refugee Forum and create a refugee seat in UNHCR’s governing body, EXCOM, by 2023. As representatives of affected populations, refugees add a unique perspective to the global debate on refugee policy that is not represented by Member States, UNHCR, or NGOs. By increasing our representation fully and meaningfully in these high-level discussions and bodies, we can help to shape policies that are informed by our lived experiences and drive systemic changes. Inclusive refugee policies and meaningful participation must span gender and sexual identities, religion, ethnicity, those with disabilities, youth and elders, those affected by sexual and gender-based violence, among other identities.

Eliasib Amet Herrera

If COVID-19 has taught us anything it’s that the best way to implement lasting solutions is to include and address the needs of the most vulnerable. Refugee policy is no exception. The conditions of forced displacement provide a perfect incubator for COVID-19, leading to a devastating impact on the refugee population. For this reason, we are calling for secure, equal, quality health treatment for forcibly displaced people, including access to the COVID-19 vaccine.

While COVID-19 made improving the global response to the refugee crisis more urgent, it also demonstrated the importance of refugee-led organizations (RLOs) in the refugee response. There is documented success in the power of including RLOs in the global vaccine rollout for refugees. In Uganda, the Refugee-Led Organisations Network, which brings together 34 RLOs in Africa, is on the frontlines of the COVID response, providing life-saving support to refugees and helping them to access vaccines. In the absence of specific government campaigns targeting refugee access to the vaccine, these groups have kept their community informed and protected – challenging vaccine misinformation, to translating crucial information about COVID-19 into refugees’ native languages. These kinds of refugee-led initiatives around the world are vital to fighting vaccine hesitancy and making sure refugees are protected.

Refugee engagement in the Afghanistan response once again demonstrated in real-time how including refugees can lead to better-informed policies. The Taliban’s recent seizure of Afghanistan put thousands of Afghans in grave danger, many of whom scrambled to flee the country to seek asylum abroad. This crisis is an existential test of the GCR, as the UN projects that up to half of a million Afghans could flee the country by the end of the year, which will require a global, coordinated refugee response. RLOs, like GRN’s Asia chapter, Asia Pacific network of Refugees (APNOR), have been using their personal experience and professional expertise to support Afghan refugees. APNOR was a first responder – coordinating legal aid, facilitating a hotline for psychological counseling, and supporting evacuation efforts for Afghans in danger. Having fled Afghanistan in the 90s, the refugee leaders had vital information from the ground about how the situation is progressing, as well as a unique understanding of the danger Afghans face under Taliban rule, and in the journey to seek asylum.

Shaza Alrihawi

However, it is groups like ours, formed within and profoundly committed to serving each other, that are most underfunded and under consulted. We need a global commitment to quickly alter systemic barriers and end the exclusion of affected communities from the spaces where their present and future are being debated. In global and regional fora, travel and visa issues are creating divisions in which only refugees resettled in the Global North are able to participate in decisive meetings held in Geneva, New York and the like. At local levels, safety issues also exclude girls, women, LGBTIQ+ persons, and other members of the refugee population. To promote inclusion across demographics, decision-makers must provide RLOs with flexible and direct funding to support women, youth, LGBTQI and other excluded refugee groups.

Until we are included in all decisions about the lives we lead, policies will continue to fail. Our request for broad-based inclusion of refugees and resources to meet the full range of our experiences and identities is the only form of participation that will create sustainable change and enable a more effective global refugee response.

Anila Noor, Eliasib Amet Herrera and Shaza Alrihawi are steering committee members of the Global Refugee-led Network (GRN), a Refugee-Led Organization (RLO) composed of refugees groups in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, MENA, and the Asia Pacific.

 

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Zwei Thurgauer Bäckerinnen haben einen Kalender mit viel nackter Haut kreiert, um das Image des Berufs aufzupolieren. Während die Aktion bei der Migros auf Unverständnis stösst, kommt sie bei der Kundschaft sehr gut an. Der Kalender verkauft sich auch in Deutschland.

Der FCZ steht in der Super League an der Tabellenspitze. Hat Zürich wirklich das Zeug zum Meister? Dazu nimmt Blick-Fussballreporter Matthias Dubach in dieser Folge «Pro und Konter» Stellung.

DenníkN: Négy férfit vett őrizetbe a rendőrség a Bazini Járási Munka-, Szociális- és Családügyi hivataltól kicsalt 24 milliós COVID-segély ügyében – közölte Hamran István megbízott országos rendőrfőkapitány a JOJ TV "Elemzések pengeélen" (Analýzy na hrane) című műsorában.