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This article elaborates on the place of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, also known as Rio+20) in a forty-year trajectory of international sustainable development negotiations, particularly through the processes placed in motion during the 1992 Rio Earth Summit event. The negotiation of the final UNCSD document also can be evaluated in its own right, and the article examines this process in the second section, keeping in mind the negotiating system in which the talks took place. The final section focuses on the process as a post-agreement negotiation and considers the role of the twenty-year milestone negotiations in shaping the sustainable development regime. The article explores in particular the role that consensus negotiated agreements have played as the regime's decision-making procedure, and how this procedure has faltered as the complexity -- including the number of issues, actors and obligations incorporated into the regime -- has increased. Two elements from the Rio+20 outcome -- a 'take-it-or-change-it' facilitation approach of the Brazilian hosts and the adoption of a process to create 'sustainable development goals' as a different means to focus international expectations -- are presented as new directions for decision making in the regime's next rounds of regime governance and regime adjustment negotiations. Adapted from the source document.

Every day it's about China; it's about a China who's at the center of virtually every activity and dispute in the maritime domain in the East Asian region, said Capt. James Fanell, reading from prepared remarks at a US Naval Institute conference in San Diego on January 31. Some were shocked to hear the extent and intensity of China's carefully orchestrated maritime provocations, especially coming from an officer whose job may make him more of an expert on Beijing's naval maneuverings than anyone outside China. Xi Jinping, the 59-year-old new president, is himself a veteran who launched his career in 1979 as personal assistant to Geng Biao, then secretary-general in charge of daily affairs at the Central Military Commission, the 11-member panel that runs the Chinese armed forces. And Xi has stated clearly that the military is central to his vision for China. Adapted from the source document.

Schüler und Schülerinnen mit Legasthenie und/oder Dyskalkulie haben in der Schule erhebliche Probleme und erreichen häufig nur niedrige Bildungsabschlüsse, weil sie aufgrund ihrer Beeinträchtigung nicht im geforderten Maß lesen, rechtschreiben und/oder rechnen können. Ob und inwieweit Legasthenie und Dyskalkulie in der Schule berücksichtigt werden müssen, ist pädagogisch und schulrechtlich sehr umstritten. Die Arbeit untersucht auf der Grundlage des Verfassungsrechts und der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention, welche Rechte Schüler und Schülerinnen mit Legasthenie/Dyskalkulie haben. Sie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass Legasthenie und Dyskalkulie Behinderungen im Sinne des Art. 3 III GG und der UN-BRK sind. Daraus ergibt sich für die betroffenen Schüler und Schülerinnen ein umfassender Anspruch auf Nachteilsausgleich, sowohl bei den Prüfungsbedingungen als auch bei den Prüfungsinhalten. Im umfangreichen Verfahrensteil werden praktische Fragestellungen geprüft, wie z.B. das Verfahren zur Anerkennung der Behinderung in der Schule, die Ausgestaltung von Nachteilsausgleich, der Umfang des Datenschutzes und die Zulässigkeit von Zeugnisbemerkungen.