Since I came back from my trip to West Africa, I’ve been thinking and crying every night for the women I met. Their words and stories are echoing in my mind, stories of extreme suffering in the hands of their husbands, about their fear of the darkness of the night, when they will be forced…
International Women Space in Kanal making of our puppet “A Guerrilheira” for the demo of the Women’s day of Struggle 8.3.2016 and a workshop for the children where they learned how to make their own puppets. Kanal is a unique place in Berlin and we, the International Women Space, stand firmly in solidarity…
WE TAKE THE POWER BACK! Pics Janis Garnet/Lica Stein
Once a month IWS invites to you to get together, watch films about and/or by women and discuss them afterwards… Our next film is about the Mirabal sisters: In the Time of the Butterflies Three sisters; Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa Mirabal, were murdered on the 25th November 1960 on the orders of the President of…
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…
International Women Space: english version below/Interview was made originally in German. Am 7. August führten wir ein Interview mit Monika Herrmann, der Bürgermeisterin von Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Wir wollten von ihr wissen was zu dem politischen Umschwung im Umgang mit der Refugee-Bewegung beigetragen hatte. 2012 wurde es der Bewegung gestattet ein Protestcamp auf dem Oranienplatz aufzubauen. Ein…
On the 20.06. we made a speech at the Brandenburger Tor as part of the program for the Refugee Day. Below are the english and german versions. A few weeks ago Angela Davis came to Berlin and on this occasion she told us that the refugee movement is the movement of the 21st century, that…
Democracy Now!: Longtime anti-eviction activist Ada Colau recently became the first female mayor of Barcelona, Spain. She has vowed to fine banks, stop evictions, expand public housing, improve wages, force utility companies to lower their prices and slash the mayoral salary. She has called bankers “criminals” and garnered support from the leftist Podemos party, which…
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…
Im Jahr 2013 wurde ich von vier Männern aus meinem Haus vertrieben, weil sie Geld von mir gefordert haben, das ich nicht hatte. Sie haben mir Gewalt angedroht, wenn ich ihre Forderungen nicht erfülle. Einer davon war Polizeiinspektor in Novi Sad. Mehrfach sind sie zu mir gekommen, um Geld zu verlangen. Mehrfach habe ich ihnen…
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.
According to ‘Google Images’, the front-figures of pan-African leadership are Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X, Steven Bantu Biko, Frantz Fanon, Wole Soyinka, Nelson Mandela, Muammar Gaddafi, Haile Selassie, George Padmore, Walter Rodney, Patrice Lumumba and Marcus Garvey … Women are conspicuously absent from the pan-African discourse.
On June 21, 2014, women and male allies gathered to honour and celebrate Lee Lakeman and her tireless work to end male violence against women. Lee has been an integral part of Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter since the late 70s. She retired from her position there in 2013 but has not retired from…
Khadija Gbla grew up caught between two definitions of what it means to be an “empowered woman.” While her Sierra Leonean mother thought that circumsizing her — and thus stifling her sexual urges — was the ultimate form of empowerment, her culture as a teenager in Australia told her that she deserved pleasure and that…
Today we celebrate the wedding of our comrade Napuli Langa, who has been an inspiration to all of us migrant and refugee women living as foreigners in Germany. A country that permanently refuses to recognize us as members of their society although we are here despite the hardships we undergo because of their racism, prejudice…
One day when we still had the space in Ohlaher Straße we gathered a number of us together and wrote down little snippets of our experience here in Germany as refugee and migrant women. Here is an example what we women of iwspace had to say: I want to know what the government is: is it…
Sista Mimi/ DAS HAUS DER 28 TÜREN
Here’s two excerpts from our interview with Florence Sissako: “I lived here for 5 or 6 years. On this corridor I think I was the only woman here. Everywhere here to the door I have only boys, single boys, from Africa. They were like my brothers. What I used to do is, once in a while,…
Good Morning ladies and gentleman. We would like to thank all of you for coming to our press conference. As you all know, we are a refugee movement and because refugees are not welcomed in Germany we have been under constant pressure for as long as we have occupied Oranienplatz and the school in order…
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