Children as commodity

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The German government should become more involved in the fight against child trafficking and child prostitution, the children's relief organization UNICEF has demanded. According to UN estimates, around 1.2 million girls and boys worldwide fall victim to human traffickers every year, deputy UNICEF director Hilde Johnson from New York complained in Berlin on Tuesday. The number of children forced into prostitution and pornography is estimated as high as 1.8 million.

UNICEF calls for better cross-border cooperation against criminal networks. Internet providers and platforms would have to immediately remove child pornographic content from the net and help in the prosecution of the perpetrators. In addition, underage prostitutes from abroad should be granted protection against deportation in Germany, especially if they testify as witnesses against human traffickers and pimps."Every day, around the world, more than 3.000 girls and boys sold like commodities," explained UNICEF ambassador Katja Riemann. The actress demanded that Germany should be a pioneer in the fight against this serious violation of human rights. An important step would be the ratification of the corresponding additional protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

"we used the software we had always used – but at some point we couldn’t get any further." this is the almost unanimous tenor of the architectural firms that have decided to switch to ARCHICAD software. The producer of the program, GRAPHISOFT, asked the architects about their motives and came up with some interesting results.

06 Kilian Kresings and Moritz Fleischmann

Kresings, munster and dusseldorf, have made a comprehensive evaluation before their software decision. Kilian kresing (left): "ARCHICAD was the winner by points."

Kresings maintain a team in dusseldorf in addition to their traditional office in munster in order to provide fresh impetus from the state capital. A total of 55 employees work at the two locations and plan everything from individual office or residential buildings to complete neighborhoods.

Previous CAD software reaches its limits

at the top of the list of reasons for change is the 2D/3D theme. Many offices use software solutions that are still very much based on two-dimensionality. It’s different with ARCHICAD, where working directly on the 3D model has always been the core. planning is done intuitively and quickly on a central model. Every change also appears automatically in all floor plans, elevations and sections.

Kresings, munster and dusseldorf, made a comprehensive evaluation prior to their software decision. Kilian kresing (left): "ARCHICAD was the winner by points."

Kresings maintain a team in dusseldorf in addition to their traditional office in munster in order to provide fresh impetus from the state capital. A total of 55 employees work at the two sites and plan everything from individual office or residential buildings to complete neighborhoods.

this is not only extremely time-saving – it also better suits today’s working habits, especially of young architects. You want to move quickly into modeling, work on the living object, so to speak, and deliver presentable, veritable results quickly. Andreas kleboth from linz can also observe this in his office: "we have many employees who know ARCHICAD from their studies and are therefore very well-versed and very fast in building 3D models."

3D modeling is the order of the day

Kresings, munster and dusseldorf, carried out a comprehensive evaluation before deciding on their software. Kilian kresing (left): "ARCHICAD was the winner on points."

Kresings maintain a team in dusseldorf in addition to their traditional office in munster in order to provide fresh impetus from the state capital. A total of 55 employees work at the two sites and plan everything from individual office or residential buildings to complete neighborhoods.

a faster sense of space, conditions and atmosphere: this is what more and more clients are demanding. This is where many of the respondents see ARCHICAD’s great trump card. architect johannes berschneider from pilsach describes it this way: "the final icing on the cake are the builders who sit here with their mouths open, watch and ‘walk through’ the building."He is referring to the 3D representations with which ARCHICAD enables impressive virtual building inspections at the push of a button.

ARCHICAD has always been BIM

Building information modeling is increasingly required in tenders to ensure an efficient project flow throughout all phases and between all parties involved in the design process.

Training for the changeover

Almost all offices have taken advantage of the extensive training and support offered by GRAPHISOFT and its local partners. For architect irene kristiner from graz, the ARCHICAD basic course was a particularly important help: "the program’s functions were explained to us right from the start, we were able to work with it directly, ask our questions and receive direct feedback."

Interesting info portal

What do the individual architects think about their software?? Why of all things the changeover to ARCHICAD? And how did the changeover go? GRAPHISOFT has set up an interesting information portal with films about various architecture firms in germany and austria. More info here.

Vatican liable for abuse by Catholic clergy worldwide, UN finds. The Vatican immediately denied this interpretation in a statement.

At the end of a regular review in Geneva on Friday, the UN Anti-Torture Committee ruled that a state's responsibility for the actions or omissions of public officials also extends to officials abroad. In its eight-page document, the committee praised the Vatican's dialogue as "open and constructive," but criticized it for submitting its first report on the implementation of the Convention against Torture nine years late. The Holy See had acceded to the Convention in 2002. The UN committee also viewed positively the alignment of criminal law in Vatican City State with international norms, as well as the establishment of an abuse commission by Pope Francis in December.

Disagreement remains between the Holy See and the UN over the scope of the convention. In the view of the Anti-Torture Committee, the agreement covers "all members of the public service or persons acting in an official capacity.". The rapporteur in the expert committee, Felice Gaer, had already pointed this out during the discussion with the Vatican delegation on 5 December. and 6. May pointed out in Geneva.

The Vatican, on the other hand, continued to maintain in its statement Friday that the convention's obligations extend to the 55-hectare Vatican City State and, more specifically, to employees of the Roman Curia, diplomatic personnel, Holy See institutions and judicial employees. It also questioned whether pedophilic acts fell under the definition of torture.

Overall, the Vatican sees itself confirmed in its line. The U.N. committee attested to the church leadership's "serious and substantial reforms" in line with the anti-torture convention, the statement said. It also recognizes the practice of compensating victims. The Vatican highlighted as welcome that its fight against abortion was not considered a violation of the convention, referring to the accusation that it was limiting women's rights through its position.

The UN committee's paper explicitly acknowledges the Vatican's criminal action against pedophile priests. For example, according to church figures, between 2004 and 2013, 848 clerics were transferred to lay status and 2.572 has been punished with other penalties. At the same time, however, the experts demanded concrete data on how often the judiciary of other states was called in. Already in the case of concrete allegations of abuse, a provisional suspension must take place. transfers of accused persons are to be monitored by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, all suspicious cases are to be reported to secular authorities as well.

Clear rules for judicial cooperation called for

The committee expressed concern about reports that church leaders failed to report sex crimes to secular authorities, moved assaulted clergy to other dioceses even more recently, or, in a 2013 case in Australia, refused to release documents to an abuse investigation commission. The Vatican must create clear rules for judicial cooperation and ensure that requests for cooperation are answered quickly, it said.

He said the child protection commission set up by Francis has so far lacked clear powers. It is also uncertain to what extent she will be able to publish the results of investigations, the committee said. The Vatican should create an independent complaints body with the possibility of cooperation from non-church authorities. With regard to compensation for victims, the UN panel criticized attempts to extract assets of dioceses or religious orders from the liability pool.

The next regular review is due in May 2018. By 23. In May 2015, the Vatican is to present an interim report on, among other things, the handling of abuse suspects and the ie of victim compensation.

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