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Opinions 25. November 2025

November 25th – Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

137 women and girls killed every day by intimate partners or family members in 2024 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members in 2024 – one every 10 minutes – according to new data released today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women, with levels unchanged despite years of global commitments. Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the 2025 femicide brief from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women confirms that femicide continues to take the lives of tens…

Chinese Community in Vienna, Culture & Literature, Interviews, Opinions

Kubin’s 2025 Vienna Reading Session Held again in Café Museum by BACOPA

Interviews, Opinions, Technology

“Global Disarmament, a necessary condition for human survival – Special focus on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”, an Information and Discussion Meeting Successfully Convened at Vienna International Center

Culture & Literature, Interviews, Opinions

The Significance of Education for Today’s Global Security, an Online Talk with Madame Helga Zepp-LaRouche

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Who Decides on the Next Dalai Lama?

Opinions 13. June 2025

Mental Health and Gun Law, A Brief Reflection on the Graz Shooting Case

The vicious school shooting in BORG Gymnasium in Graz on 10 June 2025 which claimed 11 lives, has undoubtedly cast a suffocating shadow over Austria’s peaceful, tranquil, and safe image. When the headlines of the world’s media point to the territory of this small, politically neutral country, not because of its music and art, or landscape and hidden champions, but terrorist incidents, how big is the challenge it is facing? One can discuss about the campus culture in the Austrian secondary schools, where the relationship between the pupils as well as that of between pupils and teachers has always been…