arab below In Bagdad, I had a good life, friends, family and a job in the administrative department of a company that represents big brands of the european pharmaceutical industry. I come from a family who has never put pressure on their daughters. Me and my sisters could always do what we wanted as long…
deutsche Version weiter unten Last Thursday, the 30th of July, as I went to the Foreign Office/Ausländerbehörde to renew my Identity Card/Ausweis, they told me there was a bomb threat in the building and that they couldn’t work on my papers, that I should come back the next day, on Friday, at 8 o’clock in…
Susi Frauenzentrum: die Aktivistinnen vom International Women’s Space (IWS) haben die Lebensgeschichten von geflüchteten Frauen in Deutschland dokumentiert. Sie näherten sich dem Projekt mit Hilfe der lateinamerikanischen Tradition der Testimonial-Literatur an – dabei immer mit dem Blick darauf, die Stimme der Stimmlosen zu verstärken. Das Buch „In Our Own Words“ / „In unseren eigenen Worten“…
Statement Radmila Anic 26.04.2016 (deutsch unten) Women, listen to me. I have to leave Germany next week. And you, who are in a similar situation as I am, I want to give you some advices. I would like to tell you that you should fight to the end without letting anyone taking you down. Don’t be afraid of anybody. You have…
“The activists from International Women Space (IWS) set themselves the task of documenting the lives and stories of refugee women in Germany. They approached the project in the Latin American tradition of testimonial literature – looking to amplify the voice of women who could have migrated, but wouldn’t have been given a visa.” On 12.03.2016…
WE TAKE THE POWER BACK! Pics Janis Garnet/Lica Stein
Welcome to iwspace. Take a look around, find out about us and what we have to say. Check out our latest updates and news about our work and refugee rights in Germany. Take some time to get to know refugee and migrant women in Germany; listen to us tell our stories in our own words. Browse through our photo gallery to see what we’ve got up to. Learn…
I arrived in Germany on the 2nd of December, 2015. When I arrived in Germany, I went to Lübeck. It is a city in Germany. It is a very nice city. I lived in Lübeck for five days in a Camp and after five days, when I went to the office manager to do…
18:00 Uhr Lageso Turmstraße 21, 10559 Berlin –english below– Mit dem Asylpaket II will die Bundesregierung in den nächsten Tagen rassistische Gesetzesänderungen verabschieden, die sich aggressiv gegen Geflüchtete richten. Das Asylpaket II sieht vor: • Es werden “Spezielle Aufnahmezentren” eröffnet, in denen Menschen aus “sicheren” Herkunftsländern und Menschen, denen vorgeworfen wird ihre Papiere vernichtet zu haben,…
Kundgebung 5.2. um 16.00 Uhr in Hennigsdorf (Postplatz). Zugtreffpunkt Berlin 15.30 Uhr Gesundbrunnen Gleis 4 (Abfahrt 15.42 Uhr S25). (english below: ) (français plus bas: ) Racist attacks against women in Hennigsdorf (deutsch unten) two refugee women describe to IWS the latest racist attacks in the local NP Supermarket in Hennigsdorf It happened around three…
The neighborhood initiative WEM GEHÖRT KREUZBERG invites you to a meeting of neighbors and refugees on February 4th at 6pm, starting 6.30pm at Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Kreuzberg. Long before people start fleeing from war, hunger and desolation looking for shelter, it was known that there is an enormous need of affordable housing in Berlin. In one…
“It is About Freedom of Movement” is one of the testimonials of refugee women in Germany published in our book IN OUR OWN WORDS / IN UNSEREN EIGENEN WORTEN. See the text below (in English or Deutsch) or listen to a reading by Devika Ranjan: I decided to leave my country because the time had come when…
(English below) BUCHVERÖFFENTLICHUNG // PRESSEMITTEILUNG + EINLADUNG IN UNSEREN EIGENEN WORTEN Geflüchtete Frauen in Deutschland erzählen von ihren Erfahrungen WANN: 19 Uhr | 25. November 2015 WO: TheaterSpielRaum, Bethanien-Südflügel, Mariannenplatz 2B, 10997 Berlin Wir – die Aktivistinnen vom International Women Space (IWS) – hatten es uns 2013 als Aufgabe gesetzt, die Lebensgeschichten von geflüchteten Frauen…
BERLIN, May 21 2015 (IPS) – In a move to take their message of solidarity to refugees across the country and calling for their voices to be heard in Europe’s ongoing debate on migration, Germany’s asylum seekers have taken their nationwide protest movement for change on the road under the slogan: “You Can’t Evict a…
FLÜCHTLINGE IN DER BAYERNKASERNE. Ein Papier prangert Fälle sexueller Gewalt in Flüchtlingsunterkünften an. Die Fallzahlen werden heftig debattiert – die Missstände für Frauen geraten aus dem Blick.
Welcome to one more sexist event, where repeatedly you hear the voice of man despite the presence of women. Well, we want to see a change. We want to prove wrong those who tell women we cannot complain because we are equal. No, we are not equal. Far from it.
My name is Regina, I come from Uganda. I’ve been here in Germany for the last 13 years. I apply for political asylum, they reject. I apply again, they reject. I’ve been applying for so many times. And all this time I’ve been living with a ‘Duldung’, which simply means that I’m just being … they…
Movement Magazine documents the history of Oranienplatz, the refugee movement in Berlin and much much more. iwspace interviewed some refugee women especially for the magazine.
Bintou Bojang is 21 years old, she went through Female Genital Mutilation at the age of 11 years old. In 2012 she came to Germany and applied for asylum. At first she was rejected. The authorities didn’t believe her story. She then appealed and got accepted under the Humanitarian Help.
Flüchtlingsrat Berlin: Spätestens seit November 2014 befinden sich die Standards der Unterbringung und Versorgung Asylsuchender in Berlin im freien Sinkflug: Container, Tragluft- und Turnhallen, und gänzlich obdachlos gelassene Asylsuchende. Der Flüchtlingsrat hat in den letzten Wochen die neuen Notunterkünfte besucht und mit zahlreichen Asylsuchenden, Beratungsstellen und Initiativen gesprochen. Wir ziehen Bilanz: Unterbringung Aktuell werden in…
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