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Sechs Wochen lang waren die nicht-essenziellen Läden geschlossen. Nun ist die Shoppingtour wieder erlaubt. Hast du dir am ersten Tag der Lockerungen schon etwas gegönnt? Wenn ja, was?

Der langjährige Torhüter Pascal Zuberbühler ist gerade 50 geworden. Da wird es Zeit sich mal ordentlich durchchecken zu lassen. Für die Darmkrebs-Prävention ist Zubi daher auch gleich Botschafter. Wir haben ihn bei seinem Check-up begleitet.

Der FC Basel suspendiert seinen Captain. Dies sei ein Zeichen, dass sich Trainer Ciriaco Sforza von seinen Spielern nicht alles bieten lasse, meint BLICK-Reporter Stefan Kreis.

Ethiopian diplomats have stoked a growing diplomatic feud with the European Union after the bloc’s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, and his envoy, Finland’s Pekka Haavisto, harshly criticised the government’s handling of the conflict in the northern Tigray province.

In an unusual move, European Council President Charles Michel invited Georgia's ruling and opposition parties for talks under his mediation over dinner during his visit to Tbilisi on Monday (1 March).

Babos Tímea sikerrel vette az első fordulót, így bejutott a legjobb 16 közé a 235 ezer dollár (70 millió forint) összdíjazású, lyoni keménypályás női tenisztornán.

L’épidémie de la COVID-19 est stable sur l’ensemble du territoire algérien, malgré la légère hausse constatée, au  nouveau bilan rendu public aujourd’hui, le 01 mars, qui fait état de 163  nouvelles contaminations. L’épidémie de la COVID-19 en Algérie tourne au ralenti, le pays a enregistré 163 nouveaux cas confirmés de coronavirus durant les dernières vingt-quatre […]

L’article Covid-19 en Algérie : Le bilan repart à la hausse est apparu en premier sur .

La conférence internationale de donateurs du Yémen s’est ouverte avec notamment le conseiller fédéral Ignazio Cassis.

Három-három brazil vírusmutációval fertőzött embert találtak Angliában és Skóciában a brit egészségügyi szakemberek.

Die Berner Wölfin F78, welche nach mehr als 35 Nutztierrissen vom Kanton Bern zum Abschuss freigegeben worden ist, lebt nicht mehr. Ein Berner Wildhüter hat das Tier am Sonntag in der Region Gürbetal-Gantrisch abgeschossen.

Vasárnap 3565 RT-PCR tesztet végeztek el, és 842 újabb esetben mutatták ki az új típusú koronavírus-fertőzést Szlovákiában.

A l’occasion de la journée mondiale des maladies rares, Sanofi tient à rappeler son engagement dans la lutte contre ces maladies. Cette journée est l’occasion de mettre en lumière l’impact que les maladies rares ont sur les patients et leur famille. Elle vise également à mettre en relief les maladies rares et les personnes qui […]

L’article Lutte contre les maladies rares : Sanofi rappelle ses engagements est apparu en premier sur .

Les accidents de la circulation sur l'axe Zè-Plaque-Akassato deviennent de plus en plus fréquents. En l'espace de 06 mois (septembre 2020 à février 2021), 101 cas d'accidents ont été enregistrés.

Dans ces accidents, 14 personnes ont perdu la vie, et 91 blessés, renseignent les statistiques des secours rapportées par Frissons radio.
Au regard de la recrudescence des cas d'accidents sur cet axe, le ministre des infrastructures et des transports a interdit la circulation aux cyclistes et motocyclistes sur cet axe. Seule la voie non revêtue située de l'autre côté de la chaussée leur est autorisée. La vitesse de circulation selon le communiqué du ministère, est de 50Km/h.

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Une vingtaine de ressortissants Algériens se trouvent actuellement bloqués au niveau de l’aéroport Charles De Gaulle, dans la capitale française Paris. Ces ressortissants, parmi eux des femmes, des personnes âgés et des enfants, ont été empêchés d’embarquer à bord des derniers vols d’Air Algérie, après leur venue de l’aéroport de Heathrow à Londres. En effet, […]

L’article Oubliés du rapatriement : des familles Algériennes bloquées en France est apparu en premier sur .

Die Polizei Basel-Stadt ist zum zweiten Mal innerhalb weniger Tage gegen Autoposer vorgegangen. Es kam zu diversen Anzeigen. Ein Fahrzeug wurde sogar sichergestellt.

Social development helps narrowing down the disparities between urban and rural areas; and gaps amongst different regions. Credit: UNESCO

By Siddharth Chatterjee and Amakobe Sande
BEIJING, Mar 1 2021 (IPS)

Back in the 1990s, the discovery of antiretrovirals offered a ray of hope to save people’s lives from the HIV epidemic. Over this decade, people living with HIV benefited from the scientific advances and began to have longer, healthier and more productive lives. However, almost all the beneficiaries were from rich countries in the global north. As a result, about nine million people died by the year 2000 due to the inequality in accessing these life-saving medicines.

It is a hard lesson from the HIV response, but unfortunately, it seems the lesson is not yet learned in dealing with today’s health crisis.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world last year and claimed millions of lives, scientists, doctors and nurses, pharmaceutical industries, and experts acted quickly to develop vaccines to prevent further infections. However, when the vaccines were developed, the same kind of inequalities happened. Research shows the world’s wealthiest countries have monopolised more than half of the production doses of vaccines, leaving low-and-medium-income countries struggling to secure vaccines. 10 rich countries have administered 75 per cent of all COVID-19 vaccines – while some 130 countries have not yet received a single dose.

Siddharth Chatterjee. Credit: Newton Kanhema

In a poignant message to WHO’s Executive Board in January 2021, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “even as vaccines bring hope to some, they become another brick in the wall of inequality between the world’s haves and have-nots”.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and underlined the widespread inequalities in the world. That’s why the theme of this year’s Zero Discrimination Day, “End Inequality”, is so pertinent in today’s world. In today’s world, we are all interconnected. Global inequality affects us all, no matter who we are or where we are from. We cannot achieve sustainable development and make the planet better for all if people are excluded from the chance of a better life.

Inequality happens everywhere: income, health status, occupation, disability, gender identity, race, class, ethnicity and religion. As estimated, inequality is growing for more than 70% of the global population, exacerbating the risk of division and hampering economic and social development. And almost two in ten people reported having personally experienced discrimination on at least one of the grounds established by international human rights law.

Discrimination and inequalities are intertwined. Discrimination against individuals and groups can lead to a wide range of inequalities—for example, in income, educational outcomes, health and employment. Inequalities can also lead to stigma and discrimination. Research shows that this social and structural discrimination results in significant inequalities in access to justice and in health outcomes.

Tackling inequality is not a new commitment—in 2015, all UN member states pledged to reduce inequality within and among countries as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. UNAIDS officially launched the first Zero Discrimination Day on 1 March 2014 in Beijing, calling on countries to examine discriminatory provisions in their laws and policies and make positive changes to ensure equality, inclusion and protection, particularly among key populations such as sex workers and their clients, men who have sex with men, transgender people and people who inject drugs.

As well as being core to ending AIDS, tackling inequality and discrimination is universal in nature and will advance the human rights of people living with HIV, make societies better prepared to beat COVID-19 and other pandemics and support economic recovery and stability. Fulfilling the promise to tackle inequality will save millions of lives and benefit society as a whole.

Amakobe Sande

Ending inequality requires transformative change. Greater efforts are needed to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, and there is a need to invest more in health, education, social protection and decent jobs.

We take this opportunity to congratulate China for not only lifting nearly 800 million people out of extreme poverty over the last four decades, but in the years since 2013, lifting nearly 100 million people out of poverty in the rural areas, setting China on course to achieve SDG 1 or ending poverty ten years before 2030. A significant milestone towards ending inequality.

Governments must promote inclusive social and economic growth and eliminate discriminatory laws, policies and practices to ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities. A people-centred approach is needed to ensure we leave no one behind.

This approach was explained well by China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who made remarks at the High-level Segment of the 46th Session of The United Nations Human Rights Council recently. He said, “Increasing people’s sense of gains, happiness and security is the fundamental pursuit of human rights as well as the ultimate goal of national governance.”

We all have a role to play in ending discrimination and so reducing inequalities. We can all play our part by calling out discrimination where we see it, by setting an example or by advocating to change the law.

We believe equality can and should be achieved. Let’s make it happen.

UN Resident Coordinator to China, Siddharth Chatterjee and UNAIDS Country Director to China, Amakobe Sande

 

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«BLICK Kick»-Experte Markus Babbel schätzt die Frankfurt-Gerüchte zu YB-Sportchef Christoph Spycher ein.

Im «BLICK Kick» spricht Markus Babbel (48) über die Chancen von Christoph Spycher auf den Posten des Sportchefs bei Eintracht Frankfurt.

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