Category: International Woman Space

Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg darf die besetzte Gerhart-Hauptmann-Schule in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg nicht ohne weiteres räumen lassen, entschied das Verwaltungsgericht. Jetzt geht der Bezirk vor die nächste Instanz. Das Bezirksamt hat am Dienstag entschieden, gegen das Urteil des Verwaltungsgerichts zur besetzten Gerhart-Hauptmann-Schule Beschwerde einzulegen, sagte Bezirksamtssprecher Sascha Langenbach. Jetzt muss das Oberverwaltungsgericht die Entscheidung prüfen. “Das Verwaltungsgericht hat unsere Argumente…

Call for Donations: http://bit.ly/1FcbGkl “The Crocodile” is an initiative of Bintou Bojang to fight Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The first nationwide networking meeting will be on the 12th of June in Dortmund, when women affected by FGM will come from different parts of Germany to spend a day sharing their experiences and elaborating strategies to eradicate…

European Commission reacted to the boat tragedy with plans to set up of offshore camps in Libya and Tunisia, to lock up and pre-empt asylum seekers before they cross the Mediterranean. It has been described ingenuously as “outsourcing border control and containment mechanisms to prevent departures.” Italy’s foreign minister even called for airstrikes in Libya…

WikiLeaks has just revealed secret details of a European Union plan to use military force to curb the influx of migrants from Libya. “The documents lay out a military operation against cross-Mediterranean refugee transport networks and infrastructure,” WikiLeaks says. “It details plans to conduct military operations to destroy boats used for transporting migrants and refugees…

I wake up every day and see a wall. The building I see through my window is a wall. I always keep my important things packed. When I go to Aldi, I look at goods I may need, but I don’t buy them. I think I won’t be able to take many things with me…

LAMPEDUSA, ITALY – APRIL 23: A migrant woman waits to board a ship bound for Sicily on April 23, 2015 in Lampedusa, Italy. It is expected that EU leaders in Brussels are to agree later that only 5,000 resettlement places across Europe are to be offered to refugees under a new emergency summit crisis package.…

Die langen Asylverfahren in Deutschland erschweren Flüchtlingen die Eingliederung in den Arbeitsmarkt. Zu diesem Schluss kommt eine Studie der Bertelsmann-Stiftung, die am Dienstag in Gütersloh veröffentlicht wurde. Die Bundesregierung habe die Residenzpflicht und das Arbeitsverbot für Asylbewerber zwar auf drei Monate verkürzt. Dennoch bleibe Asylbewerbern, von denen immerhin zwei Drittel im erwerbsfähigen Alter seien, in…

the photograph is out of focus, we know it. We also know the photographer was too excited to hold firmly the camera. For us, the International Women Space spending sometime in the company of Angela Davis was a most motivating moment because it is not yet everyday that we meet a woman who’s been dedicating her…

Women In and Beyond the Global:  Today, thousands of people escaping violence are killed or die because of the color of their skin, their origins, and because there are too many of “them” to fit into the neoliberal order of exploitation and competition. At the same time, the disequilibrium of the climate originated in the…

The GUE/NGL group was critical of the package of measures proposed by the European Commission to stem the flow of migration to Europe’s shores by military and other repressive means. GUE/NGL President Gabi Zimmer said: “I criticise the behaviour of member states. They have set a framework of fear of refugees and security challenges for…