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Poverty hits people as they move in and out of different life stages and events: job loss, disability, divorce, having children, family deaths. When they do, they will often dip into poverty — if the welfare state is not there for them.
On August 25, Yanni Gentsch personally handed over her petition, which is addressed to the Federal Minister of Justice, and the Minister of Justice in her state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Benjamin Limbach (left). Gentsch made it clear: “Sexual harassment is never harmless, but rather the first step in a spiral of violence.”