Category: international woman space
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VIDEO: German news anchor Anja Reschke uses slot to attack ‘little racist nobodies’ in impassioned call to end hatred towards refugees
The Independent: A German news anchor has sparked a huge debate after using her evening TV slot to wage verbal war on those who racially attack refugees. Anja Reschke expressed her anger at how worryingly normal it now is to publish “hate tirades” under real names in comment pieces she believes has contributed to a “rise…
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Women and children arriving at Calais’s migrant camps ‘need greater protection’
Women and children are turning up in large numbers at migrant camps in Calais for the first time and authorities are not doing enough to shelter and protect them, a senior aid worker has warned. “Since last summer we started to have an increase in woman and children and families. It was not like that before,”…
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The 3 powerful women who found Black Lives Matter
ALICIA GARZA: “… Black Lives Matter was born out of the incredible pain and rage that each of us feels and that black people across the world feel when any of our lives are taken unnecessarily, particularly in relationship to state-sanctioned violence. The phrase was coined on Facebook, and it was really a response to…
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Warum vor allem Männer Asyl suchen / Why more men seek asylum
In 2014, around 70% of the asylum seekers in Europe, as well in Germany, were men. The reasons have nothing to do with the fact that women are not as persecuted or endangered as women, but the result of a family decision. As the journey to Europe is expensive and dangerous, families choose to send the men because their are…
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«We will rise» Refugee movement – Exhibition and Archive in Progress
AusstellungseröffnungRefugee movement – Exhibition and Archive in Progresshttp://bit.ly/1OufAM8Leben, arbeiten, bleiben. Willkommen in Berlin! Zehn Tage Experimentierfeld für Begegnungen und Bewegungen. Berlin, 16. bis 25.7.2015http://bit.ly/1VoXGiF Visit the Movement’s exhibition and stop by our box, where we tell the history of the International Women Space, from when it was created in the Ohlauer School and it’s nowadays…
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More space for women in the new edition of the Movement Magazine
We are celebrating the new issue of the Movement Magazine. The content now includes more pages with our work, such as our political speeches and testimonials of refugee women, which are part of our soon to be published Broschüre. On the new issue there are also more women writing and reflecting on our role as women…
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VIDEO: Merkel drives young refugee girl to tears
Chancellor Angela Merkel is on a TV program where she discusses with school kids the topic, “Gut leben in Deutschland” (good living in Germany). A palastinean girl describes in perfect german her personal situation as a refugee in Germany, with no clear status, perspective and fear of deportation. Merkel then goes straight to the point: there is no…
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Bundestag Passed the new asylum law. What will change?
Threat of expansion of Deportation detention: Law for the Right to stay and termination of the residence permission adopted. On the 2nd of July the Bundestag adopted the redefinition of the right to stay and the termination of the residence permit. Parts of the law shows the intention of making the lives of those already…
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Asylum seekers face increasing violence in Germany
Al Jazeera/June 15, 2015by Yermi Brenner @yermibrenner: Anti-immigrant sentiment is growing in Germany, where refugee housing is burned and asylum seekers are attacked
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Ausweitung der Abschiebungshaft droht: Gesetz zu Bleiberecht und Aufenthaltsbeendigung verabschiedet
Pro Asyl : Am 2. Juli 2015 hat der Bundestag das Gesetz zur Neubestimmung des Bleiberechts und der Aufenthaltsbeendigung verabschiedet. Das Gesetz ist in Teilen geprägt von der Absicht, bereits in Deutschland lebende Flüchtlinge besser zu stellen. Gleichzeitig werden rechtliche Möglichkeiten geschaffen, um rigoroser gegen neu einreisende Asylsuchende vorzugehen. Ein Überblick über die gesetzlichen Neuerungen und deren…