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Im vorliegenden Difu Policy Paper werden die Entwicklung des Themenkomplexes "Sustainable Finance" und die Regelsetzung der EU nachgezeichnet. Zudem werden die Implikationen für die Kommunen durchdekliniert. Daraus leitet sich mit Blick auf den weiteren Rechtsetzungsprozess der EU sowie die Implementierung in der Bundesrepublik eine ganze Reihe von Policy-Empfehlungen ab. Aus Sicht der Kommunen und öffentlichen Unternehmen ist beispielsweise eine Harmonisierung der Standards und Nachhaltigkeitsmetriken dringend notwendig, die Banken, Ratingagenturen, aber auch politische Institutionen derzeit unabhängig voneinander nutzen. Zudem muss eine Lösung dafür entwickelt werden, wie bei einem starken Fokus auf Klimaschutz und Klimaanpassung die soziale Dimension nicht vernachlässigt wird, die im Rahmen der Daseinsvorsorge so zentral für die Kommunen ist. Eine weitere Empfehlung richtet sich auf die Entwicklung übergreifender Nachhaltigkeitsnachweise für kommunale Investitionen. Denn in den Städten, Gemeinden und Landkreisen fehlt das Personal, um den grünen Gehalt für jedes einzelne Projekt nachzuweisen.

This book analyses the experiences of asylum seekers within the German asylum system based on the fieldwork conducted across Germany for the VULNER project. It focuses on how individuals experience their own vulnerability and independently use their agency to overcome vulnerable situations. Thus, the process of becoming vulnerable, the experience of being vulnerable and overcoming vulnerability as an asylum seeker will be explored. Although policy and legal frameworks increasingly reference the vulnerability of asylum seekers, this has not led to binding, transparent regulations that actively work to mitigate the challenges they face. For this book, however, the authors shifted the perspective from the state regulations and practices, to the lived experiences of vulnerable asylum seekers in relation to the asylum and reception procedures in Germany. The goal was to analyse how experiences of vulnerabilities are shaped and sometimes even produced by the legal and bureaucratic framework. To this end, the three intertwined analytical concepts of agency, temporality and intersectionality are used as a guideline to analyse asylum seekers' individual and situational vulnerabilities with regards to the German system. When focusing on situational vulnerability, this book emphasises the conditions of vulnerability that could be connected to an administrative condition of uncertainty such as being an asylum seeker whose application for asylum has not been decided yet. In addition, people can experience other forms of vulnerabilities that can be caused by uncertainty related to their legal status – such as being undocumented, stateless, in detention, in reception centres far from the communities and social/care resources. In these cases, there can be many factors that exacerbate a situation of vulnerability, e.g. the fact of being dependent from the authorities, limited access to medical and care assistance, or limited contact with family and mediators. To emphasise these structural factors of vulnerability the book uses the term administrative vulnerability as a form of situational vulnerability when examining the relationship between experiences of vulnerabilities and the legal and bureaucratic framework.

Das Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde in West-Berlin war ab August 1953 für mehr als eine Million Menschen die erste Anlaufstelle im Westen. Hier wurden sie untergebracht, versorgt und von Geheimdiensten befragt. Hier durchliefen sie das Bundesnotaufnahmeverfahren, um als politische Flüchtlinge anerkannt zu werden. Anhand von 70 Objekten erzählt Manfred Wichmann vom Verlust der Heimat und von den auf die Zukunft gerichteten Hoffnungen sowie vom Sammeln und Bewahren oftmals unscheinbarer Gegenstände, die unterschiedliche Erfahrungen von Flucht und Ankommen über sieben Jahrzehnte widerspiegeln.

"Presenting a thorough examination of intelligence activities in international law, Sophie Duroy provides theoretical and empirical justifications to support the cutting-edge claim that states' compliance with international law in intelligence matters serves their national security interests. This book theorises the regulation of intelligence activities under international law, identifying three layers of regulation: a clear legal framework governing intelligence activities (legality); a capacity to enforce state responsibility (accountability); and the integration of legality and accountability into responsive regulation by the international legal order (compliance). The empirical relevance of these three layers of regulation is demonstrated through in-depth case studies of state responsibility in the CIA-led war on terror and an analysis of the accountability of Djibouti, the Gambia, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States for conduct in the CIA-led war on terror. Overall, the author shows that the most reliable path to long-term national security is the effective regulation of intelligence activities under international law. Making an original contribution to existing theories of compliance and regulation, as well as the law of state responsibility and its enforcement, this book will be essential for students and scholars of public international law, human rights, intelligence and security studies, and international relations. It will also be a valuable resource for practitioners of international law with an interest in intelligence, state responsibility, and terrorism and security law"--

Intro -- Praise for Psalms of Unknowing -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Half Title Page -- Pumping Milk -- I. In the Name of the Mother... -- Free Bible in Your Own Language -- Father Jim Shows Me Twelve Jesuses -- Bed Rest -- Ode To Seven -- The Messiah Could Have Gotten Listeria -- Jesus Might Have Walked on Ice_Scientists Say -- Forecast in the Thirty-First Week -- Bear Leads Police in Wild Chase -- My Form of Yelling -- Rush Hour Commute_Good Friday -- Trauma-Informed Christ -- The Making -- Before Writing Back to a Friend Whose Mother is Dying -- The World Turns Too Fast -- Your Heartbeat -- II. And The Child... -- Only a Sliver of Love Runs Hot -- To the Comic Who Says Her Critic Is Missing a Chromosome -- Etymology of Apocalypse -- Things I Heard After My Baby Was Born -- Fighting with My Husband Over Alphabet Puzzle Cards -- Upon Learning that Our Baby Can Swallow Her Own Spit -- Sperm -- To the Parent Who Says Her Childs Disability Isnt in the Natural Order of Things -- Your Eyes_My Daughter_Are Genius Caliber -- The Vigil I Dont Yet Explain to My Three-Year-Old Daughter -- Psalm for Doctor Normal -- The Christian Ladies Talk Infertility -- Anger Choice Cards in My Daughters Backpack -- Jesus Doodles -- Skipping Stones -- III. And the Holy Unknowing... -- My Family and I Disagree about Politics -- Loving Thy Right-Wing Neighbor -- The War We Barely Knew -- The Best House on the Block -- For One Shutter-Click We Loved Ourselves -- Beatitude for the Internet Age -- Domesticity in the Era of Doom -- Hurricane Coming -- Outdoor Church -- IV. Amen -- Beyond Chitchat -- Ovulating in Church -- Eve -- Agnostic Visits the Nature Conservatory -- Agnostic Says Morning Prayer -- Packing for a Silent Prayer Retreat -- News Fast at a Monastery on the Hudson -- Canticle of the Ordinary -- After a Silent Retreat -- Acknowledgments.

Cover -- Half-title Page -- Dedication Page -- Title Page -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Chapter 25 -- Chapter 26 -- Chapter 27 -- Chapter 28 -- Chapter 29 -- Historical Note -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Author -- Copyright Page.