“Myanmar should respect human rights”

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The UN Security Council has unanimously called for an end to military action against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar. Since the end of August, more than 600.000 people have been forced to flee to Bangladesh.

The UN body ied a strong condemnation of the violence in New York on Monday. Council agreed on a presidential statement that is not legally binding. Britain, France, the U.S. and other states had initially pushed for the Council to adopt a resolution that would be binding under international law. However, veto power China threatened to block a resolution.

UN urges respect for human rights

The UN body also demanded that Myanmar's leadership respect human rights in Rohingya settlement areas, respect rule of law principles and allow humanitarian workers access to people in need. All crimes such as sexual violence would have to be punished.

Campaign against the Rohingya

The Rohingya are systematically discriminated against and persecuted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, denied citizenship. Since the start of the recent campaign against the Rohingya, the U.N. secretary general and U.N. bodies have called for an end to the violence.

Shadow of a cross © Harald Oppitz (KNA)

The Protestant Church in the Rhineland wants to strengthen the fight against sexual abuse with a church law. A draft law provides, among other things, for the regular presentation of an extended certificate of good conduct for employees.

This would mean that uniform extended rules would apply to the 700 bodies of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland (EKiR), Vice President Christoph Pistorius told journalists in Dusseldorf on Wednesday. The law will be presented to the regional synod in January for resolution.

Under the bill, all church employees will be required to submit an expanded certificate of good conduct before beginning employment and then every five years. He said that should also apply to volunteers if their work is strongly linked to contact with minors. Further, it should be stipulated that employees must report any suspicion of sexual violence. All church institutions must develop protection concepts. A ban on hiring should apply to people convicted of abuse, he said.

Law follows EKD guidelines

According to Pistorius, the law follows the guidelines of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). As early as 2003, the Rhenish regional church established a binding procedure for dealing with suspected violations of sexual self-determination. It has since been revised several times. The law is now a logical step for the protection against sexual violence.

The perpetrators should in no way be protected from criminal consequences by their office, the vice president said. Action must be taken against looking the other way and trivializing sexual violence.

Regional Synod in January 2020

The regional synod of 12. up to 16. January 2020 in Bad Neuenahr also deals with the topic of diaconia and the relationship with Judaism. The vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Abraham Lehrer, is expected to address the 206 delegates.

The Evangelical Church in the Rhineland covers large parts of North Rhine-Westphalia, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, as well as two church districts in Hesse. With about 2.5 million members, it is the second largest member church of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

The government goes from a terrorist attack with several dead. Brussel is in the emergency state

State state in Brussel: This morning at eight o’clock there were two explosions in the departure hall of the airport Brussel-Zaventem. If a premier is reported "Balance" With 11 dead and 35 injured. Photos from the airport Witnesses from a significant destructive power.

Walking at the airport. Screenshot from a video

Shortly after nine o’clock one or more explosions were reported from the Maelbeck metro station. According to the traffic enterprises STIB, 15 people were killed, 10 people are in critical condition, 45 were therefore not lifelike.

According to the current information stand, as the Belgian newspaper Le Soir continuously transmits him, injured outside the station are treated on the burger climbing. The metro station is located 5 minutes to FUB from the European Parliament. There, all the treats were closed and the security controls are overturned and the alarm stage was lifted. As in very Belgium.In Brussel, the National Security Council was convened.

The Belgian resistant to go from terrorism. According to the staff office, at least one explosion at the airport was drawn by a suicide matte. It was approached in Brussel, but she could not prevent her. Whether the time with the arrests of the terrorist Abdeslam and other members of a network that stopped in Brussel has to do is still open.

However, it indicates that courage or. Observations that have been made in this context have confirmed that further subsequent were planned and the support network of terrorists is gross than the Belgian and French anti-terrorists to the arrests in the past week, on Tuesday and on Friday, suspected.

First MABs

In the Belgian capital, railhops were closed and evacuated, as well as several buildings; The metro, buses and tramways set the driving company, metrostations were closed, a coarse squad on militar quickly spread to important sites. As far as it turns out that Brussel was prepared for an emergency through the threats in recent weeks.

The telephone network is overloaded, short messages work bad. Since the public transport companies have set their services and some straws were locked, many stuck in the city. Also, the question of how the school children will come home home is leading to troubles, how to report the Lifeticker from Brussel.

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