Die kurdische Bevölkerung in Syrien und ihre Alliierten haben die IS in Kobane und Raqqa besiegt. Ihre Leistungen und Engagement gegen die islamistische Terrorherrschaft der IS wurde von der ganzen Welt begrüsst. Nun attackiert aber Erdogan genau diese Kurdinnen und Kurden! Von Staaten im Stich gelassen, sehen sich die Kurdinnen und Kurden alleine gelassen gegen die Militärinvasion in Syrien. Die Mobilisierung der Zivilgesellschaft ist nun wichtiger denn je! Ilias Panchard (Stadtrat, Lausanne) ; Luzian Franzini (Co-Präsident Junge Grüne Schweiz) ; Christiane Perregaux (Professeure honoraire UniGE) ; Ueli Leuenberger (alt Nationalrat) ; Luca Schalbetter (Vorstand Kommunistische Jugend Schweiz) ; Mathias Reynard (Nationalrat) ; Erica Deuber Ziegler (Historikerin, alt Kantonsrätin Genf) ; Jean Ziegler (alt Nationalrat, Vizepräsident des Beratenden Ausschusses des UNO- Menschenrechtsrates) ; Carlo Sommaruga (Nationalrat) ; Lisa Mazzone (Nationalrätin) ; Laurent Wehrli (Nationalrat) ; David Payot (Municipal) ; Josef Lang (alt Nationalrat, Historiker) ; Balthasar Glättli (Nationalrat) ; Tommy Vercetti (Rapper) ; Liliane Maury Pasquier (Ständerätin, Mitglieder der Parlamentarische Versammlung des Europarates) ;

Background Um al-Khair is a small Bedouin village located in Area C in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. Currently, 151 buildings in the village have demolition orders. Every building has already been demolished at least once and rebuilt by the community. According to the UN, there have been 20 home demolitions since 2011 that have displaced 154 people of which 103 were children. In total 32 buildings have been demolished since 2011 impacting 213 people. The Hathaleen Bedouin tribe was forced off their lands in Tel Arad by Israeli militias during the creation of the State of Israel. As refugees, the Hathaleen tribe needed to settle and bought the land from the town of Yatta as per their land deed that they still have from 1965. The illegal Israeli settlement of Carmel was established in 1981 after being deemed "state land" by the Israeli Civil Administration on Palestinian lands, surrounding the village of Um al-Khair. The settlement grew out of a military land seizure that has restricted the movement of Palestinians more and more ever since. The restrictions on land are set to increase in the coming years with the continued expansion of the settlement onto land used for shepherding and farming by the community. Why are their houses being demolished? Under the Oslo Accords, the West Bank was separated into three areas of jurisdiction: Area A, B, and C. Um al-Khair is located on Area C, which encompasses 61% of the West Bank. Area C is under full Israeli Civil and Security control. Permission to build on the land, therefore, must be granted by the Israeli Civil Administration. Building permits are few and far between for Palestinians in Area C. According to B’Tselem Israel has deemed 70% of Area C (42% of the West Bank) state land, survey land, firing zones, nature reserves, national parks, and settlements. They have continued preserving the separation wall that has annexed large swaths of Palestinian land behind the green line. Thus limiting the opportunity for development of Palestinians lands. In addition, the odds of being granted a building permit on the other 30% of Area C is almost impossible. Between 2010 and 2014 only 33 out of 2,020 applicants(1.5%) were granted permits with only 1 of those occurring in 2014. This limitation of permits by the Israeli Civil Administration causes that many Palestinians must build without a permit, exposing them to the risk of stop work orders and demolitions. Illegal Practices These land seizures are illegal under international law. Both under Article 49, working with Article 2 and Article 6 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and under Article 12 of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights. Israel has ratified both the Geneva Conventions (though not Protocol I and II) as well as the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights.

Christian Constantin hat schon wiederholt gegen die wichtigste Regel im Fussball verstossen: das Fairplay! Mit der Tätlichkeit gegen Rolf Fringer hat er eine rote Linie überschritten. Der Schweizer Fussballverband steht nun in der Verantwortung. Entweder, er hält die eigenen Werte, insbesondere das Fairplay hoch und bestraft Christian Constantin streng. Oder er macht einen Kniefall vor dem potenten Financier und lässt ihn einmal mehr mit einer symbolischen Strafe davonkommen. Ein Zeichen setzt der Schweizer Fussballverband SFV in beiden Fällen. Möge es ein Zeichen für Fairness sein.

The importance of this issue is so great that if we get a large number of signatures, countries, governments, the United Nations and peacekeeping forces will intervene to protect the Yazidis from this difficult situation.

To stop the killing in Ukraine

Der Treibhauseffekt durch klimaschädliche Gase muss, wenn immer möglich, gestoppt werden, um alles Leben auch für andere Generationen zu sichern.