The UN social Council accuses Germany of serious shortcomings in the implementation of social human rights. Countless older people lived “under degrading conditions, in particular nursing homes”, – stated in the new member States report of the panel, from the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” quoted on Thursday. Due to the lack of qualified personnel, these people received “adequate care”.
As in the report five years ago, the government is exhorted, therefore, “immediately” more money for the training of nurses to provide and control the nursing homes of “frequent and thorough”.
according to The report, 2.55 million children living in poverty, the majority of them live in Germany when one of the parents. The panel moniere lack of information and bureaucratic barriers that prevented parents take the benefits they are entitled to. Moreover, the experts doubted that the benefits from the child allowance on child allowance to participation-sufficient package, “in order to cover the basic needs”.
The Committee fear also that “the level of basic security is enough to allow recipients and their families an adequate standard of living”. Is required, therefore, an increase in the basic security as well as a stop of power cuts in the case of breaches of duty of Hartz-IV recipients.
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order is Concerned, the authors of the report, therefore, also about 1.2 million Employees were instructed, in spite of working on social benefits. They called for a higher minimum wage and better enforcement.
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The Left-politician, Sabine Zimmermann said the “NOZ”: “The Federal government needs to allow the report into concrete actions. The social rights must be implemented in Germany.” (AFP)
