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A koronavírus-járvány elleni védekezésért felelős operatív törzs online sajtótájékoztatójára a 10.30-kor kezdődő kormányinfó után kerül sor. (mti)

Előre kitervelten, közfeladatot ellátó személy sérelmére elkövetett emberölés kísérlete miatt emelhetnek vádat azzal a 17 éves fiúval szemben, aki hátba szúrta az 51 éves tanárnőjét december elején a győri Jedlik Ányos Szakiskolában.

Országos Idegenrendeszeti Főigazgatóság Dél-alföldi Regionális Igazgatóság
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
According to Advocate General Pikamäe, the accommodation of asylum seekers in the Röszke transit zone at the Hungarian-Serbian border must be classified as ‘detention’

Országos Idegenrendeszeti Főigazgatóság Dél-alföldi Regionális Igazgatóság
A szabadságon, a biztonságon és a jog érvényesülésén alapuló térség
Pikamäe főtanácsnok álláspontja szerint a menedékkérőknek a szerb-magyar határ melletti röszkei tranzitzónában való elhelyezését "őrizetnek" kell minősíteni

Országos Idegenrendeszeti Főigazgatóság Dél-alföldi Regionális Igazgatóság
Espace de liberté, sécurité et justice
Selon l’avocat général Pikamäe, l’hébergement des demandeurs d’asile dans la zone de transit de Röszke, à la frontière serbo-hongroise, doit être qualifié de « rétention »

Másfél hónapos szünet után ismét élő közvetítés létható a Nemzetközi Kosárlabda Szövetség (FIBA) platformjain.

TASR: 81 újabb esetben diagnosztizálták az új típusú koronavírus-fertőzést Szlovákiában. A COVID-19 betegségben szenvedők száma 1325-re nőtt. Erről az állandó válságstáb tájékoztat a www.korona.gov.sk weboldalon.

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By Amnesty International
Apr 23 2020 (IPS-Partners)

The Bangladesh authorities should rescue and welcome Rohingya refugees currently stranded at sea, Amnesty International said today. Other governments must fulfil their shared responsibility to carry out search and rescue efforts, in line with their international obligations to protect life, and allow safe disembarkation of refugees and asylum seekers at sea.

Two fishing trawlers carrying an estimated 500 Rohingya women, men and children are currently in the Bay of Bengal after being pushed away by Malaysia, which has imposed restrictions on all boats in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The two trawlers are headed towards Bangladesh a week after an earlier vessel carrying nearly 400 Rohingya refugees arrived there on 15 April. Monitors also believe there could be another vessel still at sea with hundreds more Rohingya stranded, further highlighting the need for governments in the region to get involved in search and rescue operations if needed.

“In contrast to the cruel indifference demonstrated by other governments, who have actively pushed away boats, Bangladesh has maintained its positive record of giving sanctuary to people who have lost their homes and suffered horrific crimes,” said Biraj Patnaik, South Asia Director at Amnesty International.

“We hope that Bangladesh will continue to welcome Rohingya refugees in these difficult times. The international community has an obligation to help the Bangladeshi authorities in this task, including in supporting efforts to set up quarantine centres and provide refugees the immediate medical assistance they require to recover from the journey and to protect them against the spread of the COVID-19 virus.”

Amnesty International last week called on Southeast Asian governments to launch immediate search and rescue operations for potentially hundreds more Rohingya refugees languishing at sea.

Malaysia has actively brought one vessel to shore but launched aggressive military patrols to scare others with Rohingya refugees away while Thailand has remained silent about the growing crisis, not saying whether it has pushed back boats or if it will assist any boats carrying refugees found near its coast.

The situation revives troubling memories of the 2015 Andaman Sea crisis when an untold number of Rohingya people were not rescued and hundreds lost their lives.

In February 2020, the Taskforce on the Bali Process – which included the participation of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar – “emphasized the primacy of saving lives at sea and not endangering the life and safety of persons in responding to irregular maritime migration.”

The COVID-19 pandemic, Amnesty International said, cannot be a pretext for governments to abandon their responsibilities towards refugees.

“All countries in the region have a responsibility to ensure the seas do not become graveyards for people seeking safety. Bangladesh cannot be left to address this situation alone. The fact that it is upholding its own obligations is not an excuse for others to abandon theirs,” said Biraj Patnaik.

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Ryanair
Transport
Air carriers must indicate, from the first time their price offers are published on the internet, the VAT on domestic flights and the fees charged for paying by credit card

Ryanair
Szállítás
Air carriers must indicate, from the first time their price offers are published on the internet, the VAT on domestic flights and the fees charged for paying by credit card

Ryanair
Transport
Les transporteurs aériens doivent indiquer, dès la publication de leurs offres de prix sur internet, la TVA relative aux vols nationaux ainsi que les frais de paiement par carte de crédit

Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI
Principles of Community law
Homophobic statements constitute discrimination in employment and occupation when they are made by a person who has or may be perceived as having a decisive influence on an employer’s recruitment policy

Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI
Közösségi jogi elvek
A homofób nyilatkozatok a foglalkoztatás és a munkavégzés terén hátrányos megkülönböztetésnek minősülnek, ha azokat olyan személy tette, aki meghatározó befolyást gyakorol a munkáltató munkaerőfelvételi politikájára, vagy ilyenek tűnhet

Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI
Principes du droit communautaire
Des déclarations homophobes constituent une discrimination en matière d’emploi et de travail lorsqu’elles sont prononcées par une personne qui a ou peut être perçue comme ayant une influence déterminante sur la politique de recrutement d’un employeur

Heute u.a. mit dabei: Der heutige EU-Ratsgipfel, die Geld- und Verteilungsfrage, sowie die Kritik in einigen Staaten an der Handhabung der Krise durch die nationalen Regierungen.

Die Staats- und RegierungschefInnen der EU treffen sich heute (virtuell) zum vierten Mal innerhalb von sieben Wochen, um zu beraten, wie ein Wiederaufbaufonds zur Bekämpfung der wirtschaftlichen Folgen der COVID-19-Krise eingerichtet werden kann. 

A la question de savoir qui est de droite et qui est de gauche en Roumanie, autant on a l'embarras du choix dans le premier cas, autant on est gêné dans le second. Le Parti social-démocrate est-il de gauche comme il le prétend, sans insister d'ailleurs ? Qu'en est-il des courants de gauche situés en dehors de l'échiquier politique qui assument volontiers un tel engagement ?
Sur l'échiquier politique roumain actuel, à droite, on se bouscule.
*Deux petits partis, chapeautés l'un par l'ancien président (...)

/ Roumanie

SDGs SDGs:  16 - Peace, justice and strong institutions

KYIV, 23 April 2020 – Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine Yaşar Halit Çevik today paid tribute to SMM medic Joseph Stone, who, while on patrol, tragically lost his life three years ago when an SMM armoured vehicle was struck by an explosion, most likely caused by an anti-tank mine in a non-government controlled area near Pryshyb in the Luhansk region.

“As colleagues and friends, we miss Joseph Stone dearly. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends as we remember a brave medic who died serving others, in the cause of peace,” he said.

While there has been some limited progress on de-mining, Çevik stressed that mines and UXO continue to be reported on a daily basis, posing a danger to civilians living along the contact line. “Joseph Stone and 262 other civilians have fallen victim to these indiscriminate weapons over the past three years. Further action is urgently needed. Civilians have the right to live in safety and without fear,” he said.

Truites lacustres, ombles chevaliers et juvéniles de féra seront incubés au Port-Noir avant d’aller repeupler le lac.

Coronavirus pandemic threatens crises-ravaged communities, UN appeals for global support. Credit: United Nations

By The Rev. Liberato C. Bautista
NEW YORK, Apr 23 2020 (IPS)

Since the founding of the United Nations in 1945, space for multilateral policy development and commitment has grown. Its growth in the global health field augurs well as we find ways to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Multilateralism is a difficult word, often misconstrued to be about the global and not the local and daily life. Perception plays a major role in how the public perceives multilateralism. This is in part due to the complexity of modern global challenges, which are well beyond the capacity of any one state or even a small group of states to resolve by themselves.

The novel coronavirus pandemic may yet change this perception.

As the saying goes, all politics is local. My rejoinder to this is that one’s local is another’s global. The local and the global are simultaneous realities. United Methodist connectionalism is akin to multilateralism.

As a church, we address social issues central to the multilateral agenda, including health, migration, peace, climate, and concerns about global poverty, trading and commerce, sustainable development, social justice, women, children and gender justice, human rights, indigenous peoples, and more.

Holistic health, healing and wholeness are intrinsic to Methodism and its Wesleyan roots. John Wesley attended to both the care for the soul and for the biological body with his abundant tips and remedies for ailments during his time.

Throughout the United Methodist connection, we are doing advocacy on public health policies at national legislatures and multilateral settings. We are in global mission together for sustainable development and humanitarian assistance, building capacity for peoples and communities to manage their healthcare needs.

Our numerous United Methodist-affiliated clinics, hospitals, colleges and universities around the world are training medical, health, social work and pastoral care professionals.

The Rev. Liberato Bautista. Credit: Marcelo Schneider, World Council of Churches

Human rights intrinsic to health, healing and wholeness

Global pandemics such as the novel coronavirus respect no sovereign boundaries or national allegiances. The coronavirus ravages all peoples across races and social classes, but its effects are more devastating on vulnerable populations everywhere and on struggling low- and middle-income economies around the world.

To mitigate the virulent spread of COVID-19, we are called by national authorities to stay at home, wash our hands, stay in place and practice physical distancing. These public health directives imply that we have houses to stay in, water to wash our hands, and some space where we can move around and still maintain six feet distance from each other.

When Philippine government officials issued the directive for Filipinos to stay at home, Norma Dollaga, a United Methodist deaconess and justice advocate from the Philippines, reacted through her Facebook page: “Stay at home. That’s for those who have homes. How about the homeless?”

The reality is that the human rights to health, housing and water, along with human mobility, have long been imperiled in many places around the world prior to COVID-19’s onslaught. Moreover, the health crisis has been used as an excuse in other parts of the world to grab power or tighten national security laws that are assaulting civil liberties and violating democratic rights.

Neither pandemic nor political or economic exigency can derogate from the enjoyment of fundamental human rights.

That the outbreak of COVID-19 started in Wuhan City in China has resulted in undue rise in racist and xenophobic acts especially against people of Chinese origin, or Asians in general. This is on top of an ongoing surge of populism and xenophobic nationalism around the world.

Health is wealth, fund it robustly

If health is wealth, it behooves peoples and their governments to protect it. Health care workers who are on the front line against this pandemic should have all the resources they need without begging for them.

A war may have been declared in the eradication of the novel coronavirus pandemic. But it is looking more like the deployment of war rhetoric and not the funding that real wars have received.

National budgets are moral documents. Health is the true common wealth that we must invest human and budgetary resources to. Yet we know that defense spending today far outweighs the puny investments from national coffers that health care urgently needs and strategically deserves.

Global collaboration is indispensable

The role of the U.N. in forging global cooperation is crucial, in times of crisis or calm. Global cooperation in the surveillance of emerging viruses and bacteria is necessary if pandemics are to be mitigated and diseases eradicated.

Coordinating this global collaboration and leading the development of a vaccine to treat the COVID-19 disease gives the public good reason to trust global institutions like World Health Organization. Think of the eradication of smallpox — and the ongoing programs to eventually eradicate polio and malaria — as examples of how global cooperation benefits us in our local daily lives.

To triumph over COVID-19, comprehensive cooperation is needed on many fronts — medical, pharmaceutical, healthcare workers, mental health providers, healthcare facilities. Public and private coordination is necessary in ensuring that the supply chain for much needed testing kits, ventilators, as well as personal protective equipment like N95 face masks, gloves, gowns, aprons, face shields and respirators remain unbroken.

A successful multilateral response requires a “whole-of-government,” “whole-of-society” and evidence-based public health approach. Mitigation works best when countries share expertise and scientific knowledge about threats to health, to climate, to populations and to peace and security.

Social inequalities imperil public health

The Commission on the Social Determinants of Health established by WHO in 2005 elaborated on the disastrous effects of social inequalities on people’s health. The intersections of physical, mental and social health, healing and wholeness are abundantly clear.

The commission’s 2008 final report stated: “The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels.

The social determinants of health are mostly responsible for health inequities — the unfair and avoidable differences in health status seen within and between countries.”

The U.N. commemorates its 75th anniversary this year. It is an auspicious time to reaffirm support for its mandates, especially the securing of health for all peoples and the planet. A healthy population makes for a healthy planet.

Nongovernmental organizations, including faith-based organizations like our United Methodist representations at the U.N., are in a kairos moment to help achieve the U.N.’s mandates.

COVID-19 may have been virulent and will forever change the rules of social etiquette and socialization. But the novel coronavirus has done what multilateral negotiations have not done — pause globalization and its unbridled pursuit of profit and capital.

When the world reopens from the ravages of the virus, we have a momentous task not to return to, but to transform, global and local arrangements to protect humanity and the planet, at least from the ravages of pandemics and social inequalities.

It comforts me that not all contagions are deadly. Some are beneficial. Love and kindness are. So are hospitality, mercy and justice.

*This article 0riginally appeared in UM News”. The link follows: https://www.umnews.org/en/news/collaboration-can-help-eradicate-covid-19

 

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Rev Liberato C. Bautista is assistant general secretary for United Nations and International Affairs of the United Methodist Board of Church and Society. He also serves as president of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations.

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