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Big news from Germany
In 2007, Germany pledged €600 million between 2008 and 2010 for the Global Fund at its own replenishment conference here in Berlin. ONE repeatedly praised Germany for this commitment. So for us it came as a shock when we learned that the Government’s budget proposal for 2010 did not follow through: Global Fund contributions were actually reduced by €58m to €142m in 2010. This would have meant that the host of the last replenishment would be breaking its own promise in a year of the next replenishment – a really bad move.
This Tuesday, the Ministry of Development Cooperation reversed the cuts. The shortfall of 58 million Euros will now come from unspent 2009 money and the “planning reserve” (financial reserves for unexpected expenditures) in the 2010 budget, we and others were told by the Deputy Minister. This money will not be taken away from other budgeted programs as far as we know.
The Financial Times Deutschland on Wednesday reported on the protests against the cuts, using the headline: “Cuts of Anti-Aids-Support Causes Protests” / “Development Ministry back pedals after criticism”. The paper mentions the organization ONE (“who is supported by Rockstar Bono”…) along with our NGO-friends DSW criticizing the Government for breaking its promises.
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15/01/2010 at 10:44 am
Infelismente a palavra de um político não está valendo nada. Hoje se não há um documento impresso, assinado e registrado nada se faz. E, as vezes, nem assim!
Temos que nos unir e exigir que promessas se cumpram e que a ajuda humanitária venha de todos os países, principalmente aqueles que outrora fizeram tanto mau a humanidade!
The word of one politician is not being valid nothing. Today if it does not have a document printed matter, signed and registered nothing one becomes. E, the times, nor thus! We have that joining in them and mainly demanding that promises if fulfill and that the humanitarian aid comes of all the countries, mainly those that had long made bad for the humanity!
15/01/2010 at 12:37 pm
Lucia, the german government is a bunch of liars and promise-breakers. Not only on international levels, also within our country they break all they promised before the elections (last year).
Our pension system is going down the drain as well as our health care system, the educating sytem and the social system. Unemployed people are treated here like crap, like prisoners without rights, and the new social laws here even break human rights and our constitutional laws.
So I expected already that the german government breaks the promises for the support of the Global Found and the development aid. Our crappy politicians excuse all with the actual global finance crisis. But they had billions and billions of dollars/Euros for the corrupted banks whose managers still get their high pay and bonifications.
I have joined the left wing party here in order to go aggainst all this promise-breaking and desstruction of the social help system here, but the left wing party are partially almost the same as the other parties. Most of our politicians here seem to live far from reality and are looking how to fill their own pockets and gain more power.
What Germany show on “Deutsche Welle” and other international TV channels of their control is a fake image of our country and government. The truth is very different: Increasing unemployment and poverty, bad nutrition of unemployed and old people etc.
I am so upset here!!! I help daily handicapped and unemployed people ane pensioneers against the law-breaking methods of the german institutions and government. And have been affected by it myself.
We do social and political work, but sometimes you´d like to take more serious and stronger actions here.
Parece que en la mayor parte de los paises los politicos ya no cumplen sus promesas.
(Sorry, I only speak spanish, I hope you understand me).
15/01/2010 at 12:41 pm
Tobias Kahler, können wir ONE-Mitglieder hier in Deutschland etwas unternehmen, damit die Versprechen der Regierung eingehalten werden?
Ich würde mich gerne an jeder Aktion aktiv beteiligen.
Martina (Kiel, Germany)
15/01/2010 at 1:05 pm
Martina, nada como alguém que vivencia para falar sobre. Fiquei impressionada com seu relato.
No meu caso, o Brasil tem sido visto hoje internacionalmente como um país de avanços, com um ótimo líder. Mas quem vive aqui sabe que não é como dizem. Temos um governo que vem se mostrando “ditador”, toma decisões sem consultar a quem de direito e acaba acarretando crises internas. Politicos ladrões, escândalos no Congresso, que no fim saem impunes. Temos um presidente que se coloca como assistencialista mas, internamente, sabemos que não está funcionando pois está criando classes muito distintas, não está havendo promoção humana. O sistema de ensino público é péssimo e de saúde pública precária. Os votos estão sendo conseguidos através de Bolsas (doações) que não satisfazem realmente a necessidade da população carente mas servem para ludibriar. Desde o ínicio de 2009 estamos tendo problemas de ordem ambientais (desastres naturais) que tem afetado nossa população, principalmente no sul do país e, agora recentemente na região sudeste. Lá, ninguém faz nada, não temos apoio politico. Nosso governante está voltado apenas para ações que dê projeção internacional. A violência tem se agravado muito aqui também.
isso é um desabafo, desculpe!
como vê, todos os paises, acredito, tem problemas sérios mas que não chega aos ouvidos de todos.
(eu compreendo bem melhor o espanhol !) Gracias!
15/01/2010 at 5:22 pm
Hallo Martina,
ich bin Alicia, Outreach-Managerin bei ONE Deutschland – und freue mich sehr, dass Du aktiv werden willst. Bist Du schon auf unserem Verteiler? Wenn Dir das nicht genug ist, kannst Du Dich auf unserer Mitmachen-Seite auch als ONE Volunteer registrieren. Wir können jede Unterstützung brauchen!
Schön Grüße
Alicia
15/01/2010 at 6:29 pm
Alicia, ich habe euch gerade das ausgefüllte Formular gemailt und werde auch nächste Woche mal bei euch anrufen. Im Formular habe ich auch angegeben, womit ich eventuell euch unterstützen könnte.
15/01/2010 at 6:40 pm
Lucia, comprendo muy bem lo que escribes. He vivido muchos años en Peru. También estoy desde años viendo la situación politica, económica y de medio ambiente de Brazil.
En Alemania, igual como en Brazil y otros paises, una politica que decide contra el pueblo y el ambiente está programada a fallar y a engravar los problemas. Me hace enojarme mucho cuando veo que el pueblo vota por un gobierno , y luego el gobierno ya no toma en cuenta las necesidades de la gente o de la naturaleza. Eso muchas veces frena también el desarrollo de un país aunque reciba apoyo para el desarrollo.
Muchos saludos a Brazil y a ti!
Martina
Pos su puesto la situación en Latinoamerica y Brazil está mucho más precária, pero en Alemania el gobierno está yendo por el mismo camino equivocado en muchos aspectos.
Martina