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Am Dienstag hat das litauische Parlament ein Gesetz verabschiedet, dass die Zurückweisung von irregulären Migranten unter gewissen Bedingungen legalisiert. Kritiker halten das Gesetz für völkerrechtswidrig.

En France, les fusillades sanglantes se sont multipliées depuis le début de l’année à Marseille. Notamment celles reliées à des faits de trafic de drogue. […]

L’article France : un Algérien de 19 ans tué lors d’une fusillade à Marseille est apparu en premier sur .

La Commission européenne se dit optimiste quant à la finalisation du Pacte sur la migration et l’asile avant les prochaines élections européennes, a déclaré un haut fonctionnaire de l’exécutif européen. Toutefois, les experts se montrent plus prudents.

L'exercice physique n'est pas seulement important pour la perte de poids, mais aussi pour le maintien de votre bonne santé.

Green hydrogen – produced with renewable energy – is indispensable for the decarbonisation of economies, especially concerning “hard-to-abate” activities such as the production of steel, cement and fertilisers as well as maritime transport and aviation. The demand for green hydrogen is therefore booming. Currently, green hydrogen is far more expensive than fossil fuel-based alternatives, but major initiatives are underway to develop a global green hydrogen market and bring costs down. Green hydrogen is expected to become cost-competitive in the mid-2030s.
Given their endowment with solar and wind energy, many countries in the Global South are well-positioned to produce low-cost green hydrogen and are therefore attracting investments. Whether and to what extent these investments will create value and employment for – and improve environmental conditions in – the host economies depends on policies. This discussion paper analyses the potential industrial development spillovers of green hydrogen production, distinguishing seven clusters of upstream and downstream industries that might receive a stimulus from green hydrogen. Yet, it also underlines that there is no automatism. Unless accompanied by industrial and innovation policies, and unless there are explicit provisions for using revenues for a Just Transition, hydrogen investments may lead to the formation of socially exclusive enclaves.
The paper consists of two parts. Part A provides basic information on the emerging green hydrogen market and its technological ramifications, the opportunities for countries with abundant resources for renewable energy, how national policies can maximise the effects in terms of sustainable national development and how this can be supported by international cooperation. Part B delves into the specific case of South Africa, which is one of the countries that has an advanced hydrogen roadmap and hosts several German and international development projects. The country case shows how a national hydrogen strategy can be tailored to specific country conditions and how international cooperation can support its design and implementation.

Green hydrogen – produced with renewable energy – is indispensable for the decarbonisation of economies, especially concerning “hard-to-abate” activities such as the production of steel, cement and fertilisers as well as maritime transport and aviation. The demand for green hydrogen is therefore booming. Currently, green hydrogen is far more expensive than fossil fuel-based alternatives, but major initiatives are underway to develop a global green hydrogen market and bring costs down. Green hydrogen is expected to become cost-competitive in the mid-2030s.
Given their endowment with solar and wind energy, many countries in the Global South are well-positioned to produce low-cost green hydrogen and are therefore attracting investments. Whether and to what extent these investments will create value and employment for – and improve environmental conditions in – the host economies depends on policies. This discussion paper analyses the potential industrial development spillovers of green hydrogen production, distinguishing seven clusters of upstream and downstream industries that might receive a stimulus from green hydrogen. Yet, it also underlines that there is no automatism. Unless accompanied by industrial and innovation policies, and unless there are explicit provisions for using revenues for a Just Transition, hydrogen investments may lead to the formation of socially exclusive enclaves.
The paper consists of two parts. Part A provides basic information on the emerging green hydrogen market and its technological ramifications, the opportunities for countries with abundant resources for renewable energy, how national policies can maximise the effects in terms of sustainable national development and how this can be supported by international cooperation. Part B delves into the specific case of South Africa, which is one of the countries that has an advanced hydrogen roadmap and hosts several German and international development projects. The country case shows how a national hydrogen strategy can be tailored to specific country conditions and how international cooperation can support its design and implementation.

Green hydrogen – produced with renewable energy – is indispensable for the decarbonisation of economies, especially concerning “hard-to-abate” activities such as the production of steel, cement and fertilisers as well as maritime transport and aviation. The demand for green hydrogen is therefore booming. Currently, green hydrogen is far more expensive than fossil fuel-based alternatives, but major initiatives are underway to develop a global green hydrogen market and bring costs down. Green hydrogen is expected to become cost-competitive in the mid-2030s.
Given their endowment with solar and wind energy, many countries in the Global South are well-positioned to produce low-cost green hydrogen and are therefore attracting investments. Whether and to what extent these investments will create value and employment for – and improve environmental conditions in – the host economies depends on policies. This discussion paper analyses the potential industrial development spillovers of green hydrogen production, distinguishing seven clusters of upstream and downstream industries that might receive a stimulus from green hydrogen. Yet, it also underlines that there is no automatism. Unless accompanied by industrial and innovation policies, and unless there are explicit provisions for using revenues for a Just Transition, hydrogen investments may lead to the formation of socially exclusive enclaves.
The paper consists of two parts. Part A provides basic information on the emerging green hydrogen market and its technological ramifications, the opportunities for countries with abundant resources for renewable energy, how national policies can maximise the effects in terms of sustainable national development and how this can be supported by international cooperation. Part B delves into the specific case of South Africa, which is one of the countries that has an advanced hydrogen roadmap and hosts several German and international development projects. The country case shows how a national hydrogen strategy can be tailored to specific country conditions and how international cooperation can support its design and implementation.

Neun europäische Länder haben am Montag (24. April) die Erklärung von Ostende unterzeichnet und wollen gemeinsam bis 2030 mindestens 120 Gigawatt und bis 2050 mindestens 300 Gigawatt Offshore-Windenergie in der Nordsee erzeugen.

Die EU-Minister haben am Montag (24. April) die Richtlinie zur Lohntransparenz gebilligt. Sie legt Regeln und Kriterien fest, die darauf abzielen, das geschlechtsspezifische Lohngefälle zu beseitigen und die Lohntransparenz in den Mitgliedstaaten zu erhöhen.

Der Kosovo hat am Montag die erste formale Phase des Beitritts zum Europarat bestanden, einer internationalen Menschenrechtsorganisation mit Sitz in Straßburg.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (L) on the set of Ms Marvel, directing actor Mehwish Hayat (R). Credit: Disney/Lucasfilm

By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI, Apr 25 2023 (IPS)

The announcement by Lucas film’s president, Kathleen Kennedy, about the upcoming three new live-action Star Wars films was enough for lawyer Maliha Zia to get euphoric.

But there is another reason for the excitement for many Pakistani Star Wars movie buffs like her. Among the three top-notch directors that Kennedy said her company would be helming the three films is Pakistan’s Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

“This is beyond phenomenal,” said an excited Zia, associate director at the Karachi-based Legal Aid Society, who, by her own unabashed admission, is a life-long Star Wars fan, watching the films since she was four.

Now a mother of three, she religiously watches the original three every year, coercing her 8-year-old to watch with her. “I never imagined that someone from Pakistan would ever get the chance to direct a film from this iconic series,” she added.

What is even more exciting for the lawyer is that she had not even in her wildest of dreams imagined she would actually know someone who would be directing them. “Something so iconic [as Star Wars films] seemed so far away, untouchable and amazing; it’s unbelievable that it seems so much closer now!” She and Chinoy have collaborated for a long time on an animated series on women’s right to property.

The Disney-owned studio may have selected “the best and most passionate filmmakers” in the three directors, including Dave Filoni and James Mangold, but with Chinoy overseeing the final new movie, there will be many firsts.

“She is the only Pakistani, the only South Asian, the only woman, and also the only woman of colour to be helming a Star Wars movie,” said Omair Alavi, a showbiz critic, and a huge Star Wars fan, excited by the news of the three films. Although for him, “the fabulous episodes of The Mandalorian” on the TV screen kept him well appeased during this interim period.

This year’s USC Annenberg (it examines specific demographics  — gender, race/ethnicity of directors across the 100 top domestic fictional films in North America) study, titled Inclusion in the Director’s Chair, looked at the gender, race and ethnicity of directors across 1600 top films from 2007 to 2022, found a mere 5.6 percent were women, and the ratio of men to women directors across 16 years 11 to 1. In 2022, it was 9 percent — down from 12.7 percent in 2021.

“Hollywood’s image of a woman director is white,” said the study and pointed out that the “think director, think male” phenomenon disregarding the “competence and experience of women and people of color” should be done away with. In addition, instituting checks in the evaluation process of potential directors was also critical.

In a way hiring Chinoy may open the doors for the unrepresented.

She is also the only among the trio to have won two Oscars (for her documentaries denouncing violence against women). In addition, Chinoy has seven Emmys under her belt, aside from being honoured Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s second-highest civilian award.

“So so proud of you, my friend. May the force be with you!” global actor Priyanka Chopra congratulated Chinoy on her Instagram Stories.

Although she is a seasoned documentary filmmaker, having directed and produced the first ever Pakistani 3D computer-animated adventure film Teen Bahadur in 2015 and directing two episodes of the 2022 TV series Ms Marvel, this will be Chinoy’s first stint in Hollywood. Will she be able to handle the big project?

“Sharmeen has a knack of doing things that other people only dream of,” said her former employee, Hussain Qaizar Yunus, a film editor, who, although awestruck, was “unsurprised” to learn of Chinoy’s being selected to direct the Hollywood movie.

And with the last few films not very well received, he said, “A fresh perspective from someone like Sharmeen is exactly what the franchise needs right now.”

Nevertheless, she was an “unusual choice” to be directing a Star Wars film. But her documentary background could work to her advantage, he said. “Her experience of telling real stories of real people would perhaps ground the story with a sense of realism to what is otherwise an epic space opera,” he added and hoped Chinoy would bring South Asian representation to Star Wars, both in front of and behind the camera, “the same way that she did with Ms Marvel”.

English actress Daisy Ridley (L), Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy (middle), and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (R) at Star Wars Celebration in London on April 7, 2023. Credit: Disney/Lucasfilm

Chatting with IPS over WhatsApp, Chinoy said: “As a filmmaker who has championed heroes throughout her career, I think that Star Wars fits in with that mission of a hero’s journey of overcoming against all odds.”

“The story I will be bringing into the world is about the rebuilding of the new Jedi Order, the new Jedi academy,” said the newly appointed director, who seems to be a Star Wars fan, having named her dog Chewbacca (after the fictional character in the Star Wars). Set 15 years after the end of the last movie (2019), British actor Daisy Ridley will return to her role of Rey, the heroine of the last trilogy, as she fights to revive the Jedi order.

“She’ll be able to pull it off; she knows her job!” said Alvi confidently.

Kennedy also revealed that these films will take place across vast timelines from the very early days of the Jedi to a future beyond Rise of Skywalker. “Hopefully, this new series will attract both the older and the newer generation; my generation, who watched it as kids, can watch it with their kids or grandparents can take their grandchildren; it will be worth the wait,” anticipated journalist Muna Khan, who watched the first film as a kid back in the late 70s and the memory of which is “seared in my mind”. These films are not just for folks who watched it then; they’re “timeless, and each new instalment adds to the timelessness” she pointed out. The first of the three films are slated for release in 2025.

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Állást találni sosem egyszerű folyamat, és számos dologra kell odafigyelni. Az első és legfontosabb, hogy a megfelelő álláskereső platformot kell választani, ahol megtalálhatjuk az ideális pozíciót. Ha például biztonsági őr munkakört keresünk Egerben, akkor az egri portálokon kell keresni.

Mit kínál egy álláskereső portál?

Az előző példát folytatva érdemes egy olyan oldalt találni, amely megfelel az igényeinknek. Ha például biztonsági őr állást keresünk Egerben, akkor a https://egerallas.hu/allasok/orzes-vedelem oldal lehet a tökéletes választás. Ez már önmagában is mutatja az állásportálok legnagyobb előnyét, hogy célzottan a számunkra releváns hirdetéseket kereshetünk. Ha a mi szakmánk a biztonsági őr, akkor valószínűleg nem érdekel minket az informatikai, marketing vagy újságírói állások. Az ilyen portálok lehetővé teszik, hogy az igényeinknek megfelelően szűkítsük a találatokat, és tényleg csak azok a pozíciók jelenjenek meg, amelyek relevánsak számunkra.

Természetesen ez csak a jéghegy csúcsa, és a szűrési funkció nem az egyetlen előnye ezeknek az oldalaknak. Egy állásportálon való regisztrációval rengeteg időt takaríthatunk meg, mivel nem kell minden egyes vállalatot felkeresni egyesével, hogy megnézzük a nyitott pozíciókat.

Hogyan néznek ki az álláshirdetések, amelyekre jelentkezhetünk?

Az, hogy mennyi információ található meg az adott pozícióról, a munkaköri leírástól és a munkáltatótól is függ. Ha az állás egyszerű, és nem igényel hosszas bemutatást, akkor rövidebb leírással fogunk találkozni, de az esetek többségében az alapos információátadás a megszokott. Minden hirdetésben röviden bemutatkozik a vállalat, mi a munkakör, mit várnak el a jelentkezőktől, milyen végzettség és tapasztalat szükséges, és természetesen az is elolvasható, hogy mit kínál a munkáltató.

Egyes cégek pontosan megadják, hogy hány év tapasztalat szükséges, és milyen fizetést kínálnak.

Mit kell tenni ahhoz, hogy jelentkezni tudjunk egy nyitott állásra?

Mint már említettük, a regisztráció minden platformon kötelező ahhoz, hogy jelentkezni tudjunk egy-egy hirdetésre. A folyamat nagyon egyszerű, ki kell tölteni a személyes adatokat, és további információkat is megadhatunk, hogy a munkáltatók többet tudjanak meg rólunk. A következő és legfontosabb szempont az önéletrajz: a szerepe drámaian megváltozott az elmúlt években, mivel ez a fő eszköz ahhoz, hogy egyáltalán interjúra behívjanak minket. A sablonos megjelenéstől és felépítéstől való eltérés erősen ajánlott, ezt a toborzók, munkáltatók is díjazni fogják. Egy jól elkészített, modern önéletrajz növelni fogja az esélyünket arra, hogy az adott cég HR-ese felvegye velünk a kapcsolatot. Természetesen ez csak egy lépés a sok közül, és mint minden terv esetében, az első megtétele a legfontosabb: ideje megtalálni az ideális álláskereső platformot.

 

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