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Abstract [en]: The German Whistleblower Protection Act (HinSchG) will enter into force on 2nd July 2023. On 12 May 2023, the law was passed by the Bundesrat (upper house of the German parliament); before that, it had already passed the German Bundestag on 11 May after a lengthy voting process. The article provides a condensed overview of the most important...
Abstract [en]: In the second part of his article „Hannah Arendt – Rethinking freedom. Dangers of self-destruction of democracies“ published here, Dr. Bruno Heidlberger deals in detail with the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine and the failure of German foreign policy. Beginning with the fatal consequences the assumption of a teleological development of mankind in a positive direction, he traces...
Abstract [en]: This pilot-study analyzes the human rights responsibilities of business in global supply chains, in particular binding legal regulation. The adoption of a supply chain law in Germany does not simply mark the end point of a longer development, it also signals the beginning of a new dynamic. Against this background, the Supply Chain Act is scrutinized more closely....
Abstract [en]: Recent epochal events, such as the pandemic, natural disasters, climate change, global migration movements motivated by hunger, scarcity of resources, lack of life prospects and, last but not least, a terrible war of aggression, have disproved previous certainties in a devastating way. What can science and civil society do in the face of this immense challenge? Civil society...
