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Drei pornografische Webseiten verklagen die EU. Grund dafür sind die neuen Verpflichtungen, die das Gesetz über digitale Dienste für sehr große Online-Plattformen vorsieht.

Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur les célébrations et les manifestations qui auront lieu le 8 mars dans le monde entier.

Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur les célébrations et les manifestations qui auront lieu le 8 mars dans le monde entier.

Une maison transformée en dépôt d'essence a brûlé dans la soirée du jeudi 7 mars 2024 à Toffo, département de l'Atlantique.

L'essence frelatée a occasionné des dégâts matériels dans la commune de Toffo dans la soirée du jeudi 7 mars 2024. La catastrophe s'est produit à quelques encablures de la localité Agbotagon, sur l'axe Cotonou-Bohicon .
Une maison faisant office d'entrepôt d'essence a pris feu. L'incendie a été maîtrisé grâce à l'intervention des sapeurs-pompiers. Mais d'importants dégâts non encore évalués ont été enregistrés.
Une équipe de la police républicaine est descendue sur les lieux.
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La nouvelle Secrétaire exécutive de la Commune de Bantè a été installée dans ses fonctions, ce mercredi 6 mars 2024.

Clarisse Houehou assure désormais les fonctions de Secrétaire exécutive de la Commune de Bantè. La cérémonie de son installation a été présidée par le préfet des Collines, Saliou Odoubou. Elle succède à ce poste à Marie Roméo Mèhinto, décédée 14 décembre 2023. La nouvelle Secrétaire Exécutive s'est engagée à mener convenablement sa mission dans une franche collaboration avec le personnel de la mairie.

Clarisse Houehou est chargée de mettre en œuvre la politique de développement de la commune décidée par les organes politiques de la commune et assurer, par un management efficace, la gestion des services administratifs et techniques communaux en veillant à leur bon fonctionnement

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Written by Stefano De Luca.

The European Union needs high-performing digital connectivity infrastructure to give all citizens the best access to digital services and to maintain prosperity. In the relentless pursuit of innovation and connectivity, the development of mobile communications technologies has been a defining force in shaping the way we communicate, work, and live.

As the 2030s approach, the groundwork for the next frontier in mobile communications is being laid – the era of 6G. Building upon the successes and advances of previous mobile generations, 6G promises to revolutionise the connectivity landscape. From ultra-high data rates and low-latency communication to the integration of artificial intelligence, 6G is poised to reshape the way we interact with the digital world.

However, with the promise of unprecedented capabilities comes a host of challenges. Critical aspects that demand attention in the development of 6G networks are privacy and cybersecurity. As 6G aims to push the boundaries of connectivity, enabling innovations such as holographic communication, seamless extended reality, and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) on a massive scale, the potential risks to privacy and cybersecurity are magnified (e.g. mass data collection). Another critical aspect is its environmental footprint. While 6G aims for energy efficiency, the increasing demand for data and connectivity may still pose challenges related to energy consumption. Balancing technological progress with environmental considerations remains a key objective for the development of 6G.

Countries and companies that lead in 6G development and deployment are expected to gain a competitive edge in terms of technological innovation, economic growth, and influence in shaping global standards. The global race to 6G has already begun.

Read the complete briefing on ‘The path to 6G‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

Listen to podcast ‘The path to 6G‘ on YouTube.

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By Olivier De Schutter and Luis Felipe López-Calva
WASHINGTON DC, Mar 8 2024 (IPS)

Poverty is multidimensional. If we think of classical thinkers, Adam Smith referred to the basis of self-respect and the importance of being able to “appear in public without shame,” while John Rawls wrote about “primary goods,” which included rights and liberties as well as income and wealth.

Amartya Sen, advancing in formalization, brought the notion of “functionings” as the “beings and doings” effectively available to people in their capability set, so they can “pursue the life plans they have reasons to value.”

It is mainstream today to argue that poverty is multidimensional, moving beyond just access to goods and services. But exploring which dimensions are “appropriate” in each context has been a fundamental pursuit of development analysts and practitioners in recent decades.

It has been almost 30 years since Sabina Alkire devoted her work to the understanding, classification, and measurement of the many dimensions of poverty, particularly those that are “hidden” in our concepts and indicators.

Indeed, there are some dimensions associated with experiencing the condition of poverty that cannot be so easily observed and have not been properly measured yet are very important when it comes to policy effectiveness.

Those dimensions include aspects related to emotions that trigger behavioural responses: feelings of isolation, discrimination, effects on the sense of dignity and self-respect, and disempowerment. We have come a long way in our thinking about poverty, but our actions to tackle it and to understand the complex interactions between dimensions remains underdeveloped.

At the World Bank, the project on “Voices of the Poor,” started almost 30 years ago, strove to think differently about poverty. It drew on the views of 60,000 people living in poverty across 60 countries to better understand the challenges they faced, helping expand our understanding of poverty to include not only income and consumption but also lack of access to education and health, powerlessness, voicelessness, vulnerability, and fear.

Later, in 2012, the Social Observatory project used a broader view of poverty dimensions to make anti-poverty projects more adaptive—and ultimately more effective. Since 2018, the World Bank’s multidimensional poverty measure has gone beyond monetary deprivation to include other dimensions such as access to education, health, nutritional, and basic infrastructure services.

And in 2023, the World Bank began publishing the multidimensional poverty index—an effort by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and the United Nations Development Programme—which is especially pertinent for low-income countries.

More recently, researchers from the University of Oxford and the global anti-poverty movement ATD Fourth World uncovered a set of “hidden dimensions of poverty” through a three-year participatory research project in six countries (Bangladesh, Bolivia, France, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, and the United States) that sought to further refine our understanding of poverty.

The teams identified nine dimensions of poverty that were common across all countries, despite the vastly different circumstances in each, using the “merging of knowledge” methodology. This approach brings together people in poverty (with their knowledge of the reality of poverty), academics (with their scientific knowledge), and practitioners (with their action-based knowledge).

The identified dimensions included a lack of decent work or income, of course, but also feelings of powerlessness, lacking control, and experiencing “povertyism” (negative attitudes and behaviours toward people living in poverty).

These lesser-recognized and lesser-visible dimensions of poverty are no less important for policies designed to combat poverty than a person’s income or access to employment. Escaping poverty will be far more difficult if you don’t also address the discrimination people in poverty face, the shame they experience, or the “aspirations gap” that results from being raised in a low-income household.

But until now, policy makers have lacked the practical tools they need to properly capture and combat these hidden, and thus largely ignored, dimensions of poverty.

The Inclusive and Deliberative Elaboration and Evaluation of Policies (IDEEP) tool, which was presented at the ATD Fourth World, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank conference on Addressing the Hidden Dimensions of Poverty in Knowledge and Policies, is the first of its kind to help policy makers transform the findings of this research into action.

Created in partnership between the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and ATD Fourth World, the IDEEP tool supports policy makers in designing, implementing, and evaluating anti-poverty policies in direct partnership with people in poverty, ensuring all its dimensions, including those that are “hidden,” are taken into account.

This is crucial, given that policies that do not account for the views and lived experiences of people in poverty tend to be riddled with blind spots, particularly around these hidden dimensions.

The IDEEP tool identified social isolation among disadvantaged communities as an unintended result of a housing project in Mauritius, for example, and institutional maltreatment resulting in fewer people accessing social protection benefits in France.

The right to participation is a human right. Only by upholding it will we achieve better informed, more effective, and more imaginative policy making. Yet the record of participatory processes in anti-poverty policy making is mixed, with policy makers often simply “informing” or “consulting” people in poverty, rather than recognizing them as the real experts about the obstacles they face.

To combat this, we need to go one step further in our efforts to fulfil the right to participation by introducing the idea of “deliberation,” which is defined in the IDEEP tool as bringing together different groups, including people in poverty, who meet, present arguments based on their unique insights, weigh them up, and propose actionable solutions.

The IDEEP tool offers a new, deliberative approach to anti-poverty policy making, one that recognizes the power imbalances inherent in traditional participatory processes and brings together different groups as equals to debate potential solutions before arriving at a consensus. This is a true merging of knowledge.

This approach is especially urgent as we rapidly head towards 2030, the target year for achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the goal of eradicating extreme poverty for all people everywhere (SDG1). If we continue on a path of business as usual, we will not achieve this ambitious goal.

We need to widen our perspective and rethink how we can jumpstart a process of inclusive and sustainable growth for all; this includes engaging with those with lived experiences in poverty in the search for meaningful, holistic policy solutions. Without embracing this, efforts to combat poverty—and its hidden dimensions—will fall flat.

Olivier De Schutter is UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Human Rights Council; Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva is Global Director, Poverty and Equity Global Practice.

Source: World Bank

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Die konservative Europäische Volkspartei strebt nach den EU-Wahlen im Juni eine pro-europäische Koalition mit den Sozialdemokraten und den Liberalen an, heißt es aus der EVP. Wenn sich rechte Parteien von extremer Rhetorik distanzieren würden, sei eine Zusammenarbeit ebenfalls nicht ausgeschlossen.

En Bulgarie, les deux-tiers des personnes estiment que les violences dans la sphère familiale seraient « normales », tandis que plus de la moitié doutent de l'efficacité de la police et de la justice pour combattre ce fléau.

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Contrairement aux héroïnes des films hollywoodiens, celles des Balkans ressemblent à des femmes ordinaires, pas toujours toutes jeunes, parfois désagréables et même peu séduisantes. Mais elles mettent en lumière les défis auxquels elles sont confrontées dans une société patriarcale. Être une femme simple, quel courage !

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Contrairement aux héroïnes des films hollywoodiens, celles des Balkans ressemblent à des femmes ordinaires, pas toujours toutes jeunes, parfois désagréables et même peu séduisantes. Mais elles mettent en lumière les défis auxquels elles sont confrontées dans une société patriarcale. Être une femme simple, quel courage !

- Articles / Femmes violences, Kosovo, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Kosovo 2.0, Macédoine du Nord, Culture et éducation, Société

Contrairement aux héroïnes des films hollywoodiens, celles des Balkans ressemblent à des femmes ordinaires, pas toujours toutes jeunes, parfois désagréables et même peu séduisantes. Mais elles mettent en lumière les défis auxquels elles sont confrontées dans une société patriarcale. Être une femme simple, quel courage !

- Articles / Femmes violences, Kosovo, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Kosovo 2.0, Macédoine du Nord, Culture et éducation, Société

Contrairement aux héroïnes des films hollywoodiens, celles des Balkans ressemblent à des femmes ordinaires, pas toujours toutes jeunes, parfois désagréables et même peu séduisantes. Mais elles mettent en lumière les défis auxquels elles sont confrontées dans une société patriarcale. Être une femme simple, quel courage !

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Das slowakische Außenministerium hat den niederländischen Botschafter einbestellt. Angeblich hätten sich die Niederländer in die inneren Angelegenheiten der Slowakei eingemischt, indem sie ihre Botschaft in Prag für eine Diskussion über die politische Lage in der Slowakei zur Verfügung gestellt hätten.

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By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8 2024 (IPS)

The Paris-based UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), whose mandate includes promoting the safety of journalists and ensuring press freedom worldwide, has pointed out that 2023 has been a particularly deadly year for journalists who work in conflict zones.

Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General, said at least 38 journalists and media workers were killed in the line of work in countries in conflict in 2023, compared to 28 in 2022 and 20 in 2021.

The ongoing hostilities in the Middle East were responsible for a large majority of conflict-related killings, with UNESCO having so far reported 19 killings in Palestine, 3 in Lebanon and 2 in Israel since 7 October.

The killings of journalists also took place in conflict zones and civil wars in Afghanistan, Cameroon, Syria and Ukraine.

“This is a dramatic toll. Never in a recent conflict has the profession had to pay such a heavy price in such a short space of time”.

“I call on regional and international actors to take immediate action to ensure that international law is respected. Journalists should never, under any circumstances, be targeted. And it is the responsibility of all actors to ensure that they can continue to exercise their profession safely and independently,” she said.

Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), told IPS “the near-record high number of journalist killings in 2023 clearly indicates that we must work collectively to ensure that journalist killers are brought to justice, that a culture of safety prevails in newsrooms, and that the public’s right to be informed is protected from those whose power is threatened by the scrutiny of reporting.”

UNESCO said the figures do not include deaths of journalists and media workers in circumstances unrelated to their profession, which have also been reported in significant numbers in 2023.

And these tragedies are only the tip of the iceberg, with widespread damage and destruction of media infrastructure and offices and many other kinds of threats such as physical attack, detention, the confiscation of equipment or denial of access to reporting sites. Large numbers of journalists have also fled or stopped working.

Such a climate contributes to what UNESCO is describing as “zones of silence” opening up in many conflict zones, with severe consequences for access to information, both for local populations and the world at large.

This global trend can be explained by a significant decline in killings outside of conflict zones, which have reached their lowest total for at least fifteen years – especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, where 15 killings were reported, compared with 43 in 2022, according to UNESCO.

In a March 7 report, CPJ provided its most recent and preliminary account of journalist deaths in the war. “Our database will not include all of these casualties until we have completed further investigations into the circumstances surrounding them.”

“The Israel-Gaza war has taken a severe toll on journalists since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against Israel on October 7 and Israel declared war on the militant Palestinian group, launching strikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip”.

CPJ said it is investigating all reports of journalists and media workers killed, injured, or missing in the war, which has led to the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992.

As of March 7, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 95 journalists and media workers – higher than the UNESCO figures– were among the more than 31,000 killed since the war began on October 7—with more than 30,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200 deaths in Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told Reuters and Agence France Press news agencies last October that it could not guarantee the safety of their journalists operating in the Gaza Strip, after they had sought assurances that their journalists would not be targeted by Israeli strikes, according to a Reuters report.

Journalists in Gaza face particularly high risks as they try to cover the conflict during the Israeli ground assault, including devastating Israeli airstrikes, disrupted communications, supply shortages, and extensive power outages.

CPJ said reporting from the front lines of a conflict is one of the most challenging assignments a journalist can undertake.

“It is important that journalists prepare before an assignment to understand the environment they are entering –and the deadly threats they may face”.

Striking a more personal note, the CPJ said it is deeply saddened by the killing of Al-Jazeera Arabic camera operator Samer Abu Daqqa and the injuries suffered by his colleague, Al-Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh who was injured in what was believed to be an Israeli drone strike in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, on December 15.

The CPJ called on international authorities to conduct an independent investigation into the attack to hold the perpetrators to account.

The wife, son, daughter and grandson of Wael Dahdouh, were also killed in an Israeli air raid.

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Die tschechische Regierung hat am Donnerstag Pläne für den Bau einer Gigafabrik zur Herstellung von Batterien für Elektroautos in der Region Karviná bekannt gegeben. Ein ausländischer Investor, dessen Name nicht genannt wurde, soll 7,9 Milliarden Euro in das Projekt investieren.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas confirmed on Thursday she will not be ALDE’s spitzenkandidat for the EU elections as the party scrambles to find the perfect match ahead of their electoral congress.

Die Ankündigung von EU-Agrarkommissar Janusz Wojciechowski, den europäischen Green Deal zu ändern, sei seine eigene Meinung. Dies spiegele nicht die Position der EU-Kommission wider, erklärte ein Sprecher der Kommission am Donnerstag (7. März).

New meta-analysis shows that the evidence that economic hardship causes populism is "overwhelming".

Die spanische Regierung konnte eine endgültige Einigung zum umstrittenen Amnestiegesetz erzielen. Als Gegenleistung für die Begnadigung der Separatistenführer erhält er die parlamentarische Unterstützung der katalanischen Unabhängigkeitsparteien.