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Der Autor gibt einen chronologischen Überblick über die Jerusalemfrage, d.h. den Status von Jerusalem seit dem ersten Nahostkrieg 1948 und der Staatsgründung Israels. Er zitiert einzelne UN-Resolutionen und stellt die geschichtliche Entwicklung anhand von einschneidenden Ereignissen dar (z.B. Proklamierung Jerusalems als Hauptstadt Israels, Erklärung des israelischen Einwanderungsministers, Bericht der Menschenrechtsorganisation B'Tselem). (DÜI-Sdt)

Assessment of the current situation concerning the status of women in Laos, providing a social demographic profile; an outline of their participation in public life, including provision of and participation in education; description of efforts to ameliorate the situation of women; and priorities for future action. (CESO/DÜI)

Organizations mediate societal cultural belief systems and group-level encounters by filtering, and sometimes transforming, social information regarding which status characteristics are salient during group encounters embedded within organizations. This study uses status characteristics theory to add to our understanding of social status within organizations by explaining why organizations matter in determining which status characteristics will be activated within task groups. By analyzing status rankings within an organization of open source software programmers, we find that the organization develops its own unique shared belief system, which inculcates actors with beliefs about status characteristics that are potentially unique within the boundaries of the organization. Specifically, in this study we find that through a process of status generalization, organizational members create new status markers (location) that are potentially only meaningful for the given social situation, and they selectively nullify others (education and age). To the best of our knowledge, the current study is the first work in the expectation states tradition to demonstrate an outcome for an organization-level selection process for status characteristics. This paper adds to status characteristics theory by empirically analyzing how organizational contexts create boundaries around groups in which new and extant status characteristics are activated and in which predefined characteristics inherited from more global, society-level contexts are deactivated.

Assessment of the current situation concerning the status of women in Vietnam, providing a social demographic profile; an outline of their participation in public life, including provision of and participation in education; description of efforts to ameliorate the situation of women; priorities for future action. (CESO/DÜI)

The subject of this paper is women experiencing male partner violence and the determination of refugee status. My central point of departure is the changes that were made in the Swedish Aliens Act in 2006 concerning the definition of 'refugee', which inter alia states that persecution on account of a person's gender should be included within the definition. The changes came into force at the same time as the new Aliens Act which was introduced in order to strengthen the 'rule of law' in migration matters. The objective of this article is to analyse the premises for these changes. The conclusion is that the changes are gender biased and marked by 'othering' mechanisms and underlying racism. The conclusion is also that many of these women, as a consequence of the constructions in the legislation, are exposed by the Swedish migration authorities to such institutionalized violence 'on account of gender' that would have been a basis for refugee status if it had been the authorities in their homeland that had exposed them to it. The reason for this is that the 'special' character of migration law rests upon demands other than those usually required by the 'rule of law', limiting the possibilities for change. However, maintaining the 'rule of law' also means exclusion for women seeking asylum. With or without the rule of law, it seems ongoing exclusion is the keyword for women in this branch of law.

This paper is concerned with the development of cross-border cooperation and its current status. It examines the funding instruments and describes the challenges and opportunities of cross-border cooperation. The paper concludes by discussing some distinctive aspects of cross-border cooperation in spatial planning.