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Discrimination handling in Germany (2)

Section 2: Legal basis of discrimination handling The legal basis comes from the ``Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany [1] . This law serves as the German constitution. The English version of the law is provided by Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz and I refer to this version. The first article of the basic law (Article 1) is ``Human dignity - Human rights - Legally binding force of basic rights'': Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority. The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every community, of peace and of justice in the world. The following basic rights shall bind the legislature, the executive and the judiciary as directly applicable law. Under the German law, people cannot violate human dignity. On the other hand, the basic law has the freedom of expression in the Article 5: ``Freedom of expression, arts and scien

Discrimination handling in Germany (1)

September 5, 2013, I was attacked by a man at a bus station . I was carried to an emergency room. At that day, my view to discrimination problems has changed. I became a person who cares about such problem, at least more than that day. I believe cooperation is better than hating each other. Even though I have a small motivation to tackle this problem,  my heart is on education. I believe naively (you could say) that education is a possibility to improve the world. Therefore, my main project is always on education. But, discrimination problems somewhat remain inside of me. That made me to have a few sub-projects of them. This article is one of them. I asked my friends that how discrimination problems are handled in Germany. Introduction This report introduces an overview of discrimination problem handling in Germany, especially in a company and a university. First, we see the overview of the German law in Section 2. The human dignity is the most important in the German bas

Kubuntu 14.04 X console immediately logged out problem

When I tried to login from X console, I was immediately logged out and cannot login. 1. first try to login by tty. (Control-Alt-F1, for example) I can login by the tty. 2. Check the ~/.xsession-errors file. I have the following (or similar) message.    /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99x11-common_start ... Open the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99x11-common_start file. The line that has an error is    exec $STARTUP Some reason, $STARTUP seems not correct. 3. Solution: I commented out that line with #, like,    # exec $STARTUP Then it worked again. But, I am not sure what is really causing.