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Clara Bünger
Clara Bünger (born 4 July 1986) is a German jurist and politician serving as member of the Bundestag from Die Linke since 2022. Early life and education Bünger was born in Oldenburg in 1986 and grew up in Freiberg. She studied Law at Leipzig University from 2005 until 2012 when she finished her first Staatsexam. In 2012 she worked for a law firm in Israel which enforced compensation claims and pension entitlements of Holocaust survivors against the German state under the Reparations Agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany. During 2013 and 2015 she completed her legal clerkship, working at the Federal Foreign Office, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and an international law firm in Singapore. She finished her second Staatsexam in Berlin in 2015 and has been a fully qualified lawyer ever since. Human rights lawyer and activist Since 2014, Bünger has been committed to helping refugees, especially those arriving on the Greek islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of The German Bundestag
Member of the German Parliament () is the official name given to a deputy in the Bundestag, German Bundestag. ''Member of Parliament'' refers to the elected members of the federal Bundestag Parliament at the Reichstag building in Berlin. In German a member is called ' (Member of the Federal Diet (assembly), Diet) or officially ' (Member of the German Federal Diet), abbreviated ''MdB'' and attached. Unofficially the term ''Abgeordneter'' (literally: "delegate", i.e. of a certain electorate) is also common (abbreviated ''Abg.'', never follows the name but precedes it). However, Members of the Bundestag are more commonly referred to as ''Bundestagsabgeordneter'' if the Member of the Bundestag is male or ''Bundestagsabgeordnete'' if the member is female. These terms literally translate to "deputy/delegate of the Bundestag". From 1871 to 1918, legislators were known as Member of the Reichstag and sat in the Reichstag (German Empire), Reichstag of the German Empire. In accordance w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor along with the State of Johor in Malaysia to the north. In its early history, Singapore was a maritime emporium known as '' Temasek''; subsequently, it was part of a major constituent part of several successive thalassocratic empires. Its contemporary era began in 1819, when Stamford Raffles established Singapore as an entrepôt trading post of the British Empire. In 1867, Singapore came under the direct control of Britain as part of the Straits Settlements. During World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of Germany, being the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country by area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.6 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region, as well as the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, fifth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freie Presse (Saxony)
The ''Freie Presse'' (German for ''Free Press'') is a regional daily newspaper in the Chemnitz region, Germany. History and profile ''Freie Presse'' was first published in 1946. The paper is published by the Chemnitzer Verlag in Nordisch format and has its headquarters in Chemnitz. Prior to German reunification, the paper was the largest regional daily newspaper in East Germany, with a circulation of 663,700. During the third quarter of 1992 the circulation of ''Freie Presse'' was 522,000 copies. In 2001 the paper had a circulation of 401,000 copies. Its 2002 circulation was 376,681 copies. ''Freie Presse'' was the best-selling newspaper in Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ... with a circulation of 277,221 copies in the second quarter of 2011, according to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dietz (politician)
Thomas Eckhard Dietz (born 2 March 1967) is a German politician and a member of the Bundestag for Alternative for Germany. He represents the constituency of Erzgebirgskreis I. Life and politics Dietz was born in Chemnitz (then called Karl-Marx-Stadt) in the former East Germany, and grew up in Lugau. After graduating from high school, he became an apprentice printer. He worked in the printing industry for twenty years before founding a real estate business. He started his political career as a member of the German Social Union (DSU) party in the 1990s founded a branch of the party in Stollberg. He then became a member of ''Electoral Alternative 2013'' which later became Alternative for Germany. Between 2017 and 2021, he worked for the office of AfD politician Ulrich Oehme. In the 2021 German federal election, Dietz was directly elected to the constituency seat of Erzgebirgskreis I defeating CDU politician Alexander Krauß. Positions Dietz describes himself as a conservative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erzgebirgskreis I
Erzgebirgskreis I is an electoral constituency (German: ''Wahlkreis'') represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 163. It is located in southwestern Saxony, comprising most of the Erzgebirgskreis district. Erzgebirgskreis I was created for the 2009 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Thomas Dietz of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). Geography Erzgebirgskreis I is located in southwestern Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Erzgebirgskreis district excluding the municipalities of Hohndorf, Jahnsdorf, Neukirchen, Oelsnitz, Thalheim, and Zwönitz and the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaften'' of Burkhardtsdorf, Lugau, and Stollberg. History Erzgebirgskreis I was created in 2009 and contained parts of the abolished constituencies of ''Bundestagswahlkreis Freiberg – Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis'' and ''Annaber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Constituency
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provide the voters therein with representation in a legislature or other polity. That legislative body, the state's constitution, or a body established for that purpose determines each district's boundaries and whether each will be represented by a single member or multiple members. Generally, only voters (''constituents'') who reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. The district representative or representatives may be elected by single-winner first-past-the-post system, a multi-winner proportional representative system, or another voting method. The district members may be selected by a direct election under wide adult enfranchisement, an indirect election, or direct election using another form of suffr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Court Of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The court hears applications alleging that a contracting state has breached one or more of the human rights enumerated in the convention or its optional protocols to which a member state is a party. The court is based in Strasbourg, France. The court was established in 1959 and decided its first case in 1960 in ''Lawless v. Ireland''. An application can be lodged by an individual, a group of individuals, or one or more of the other contracting states. Aside from judgments, the court can also issue advisory opinions. The convention was adopted within the context of the Council of Europe, and all of its member states of the Council of Europe, 46 member states are contracting parties to the convention. The court's primary means of judicial interpretation is the living instrument doctrine, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strategic Litigation
Strategic litigation, also known as impact litigation, is the practice of bringing lawsuits intended to affect societal change. Impact litigation cases may be class action lawsuits or individual claims with broader significance, and may rely on statutory law arguments or on constitutional claims. Such litigation has been widely and successfully used to influence public policy, especially by left-leaning groups, and often attracts significant media attention. One prominent instance of this practice is ''Brown v. Board of Education''. History In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the American Civil Liberties Union and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (at times through its Legal Defense Fund) both pursued legal action to advance and protect civil rights in the United States. The ACLU followed a primarily "defensive" strategy, fighting individual violations of rights when they were identified. The NAACP, in contrast, developed a more coordina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asylum Seekers
An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. A person keeps the status of asylum seeker until the right of asylum application has concluded. The relevant immigration authorities of the country of asylum determine whether the asylum seeker will be granted the right of asylum protection or whether asylum will be refused and the asylum seeker becomes an illegal immigrant who may be asked to leave the country and may even be deportation, deported in line with non-refoulement. Signatories to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights create their own policies for assessing the protection status of asylum seekers, and the proportion of asylum applicants who are accepted or rejected varies each year from country to country. The asylum seeker may be simultaneously recognized as a refugee and given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Equal Rights Beyond Borders
Equal Rights Beyond Borders is a charitable organization, founded in 2016, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and Athens, Greece, with additional offices on the Greek islands Chios and Kos. It offers free legal support to people on the move and asylum seekers, with a particular focus on reuniting families and helping with visa procedures. Beyond this, it also offers assistance in cases of detention, and where there is need for access to social rights, and its lawyers take on cases of severe human rights violations. With these aims the organization represents individual clients and also takes on certain strategic cases where litigation may help draw attention to more general issues. Therefore it operates in Greek, German, European, and international courts. In 2023 it started a project supporting survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), in the asylum procedure, criminal proceedings, and matters of family law. Equal Rights Beyond Borders is partnering where appropria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EU-Turkey Deal
The 2015 European migrant crisis was a period of significantly increased movement of refugees and Human migration, migrants into Europe, mostly from the Middle East. An estimated 1.3 million people came to the continent to request Right of asylum, asylum, the most in a single year since World War II. They were mostly Refugees of the Syrian Civil War, Syrians, but also included a significant number of people from Afghan refugees, Afghanistan, Pakistanis, Pakistan, Refugees of Iraq, Iraq, Nigeria, Eritreans, Eritrea, and the Balkan people, Balkans. The increase in asylum seekers has been attributed to factors such as the escalation of various wars in the Middle East and Islamic State, ISIL's territorial and military dominance in the region due to the Arab Winter, as well as Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt ceasing to accept Syrian asylum seekers. The EU attempted to enact some measures to address the problem, including distributing refugees among member countries, tackling root causes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
