01/07/2020
GERMANY MUST ACTIVELY PROMOTE THE RESPECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RULE OF LAW AT THE EU BORDERS DURING ITS EU COUNCIL PRESIDENCY
DEUTSCHLAND MUSS WÄHREND EU-RATSPRÄSIDENTSCHAFT AKTIV FÜR DIE EINHALTUNG VON MENSCHENRECHTEN UND RECHTSSTAATLICHKEIT AN DEN EU-GRENZEN EINTRETEN
01/07/2020
“How Can We Win?” – Kimberly Jones
Kimberly Jones is an African-Amerian prolific novelist, director, human rights activist, and brilliant thespian who has become a change-agent within the literary world and in the Black Lives Matter movement.
30/06/2020
Coronavirus, whose lives matter?
In an isolated refugee accommodation centre on the outskirts of Hennigsdorf in Brandenburg, its around 400 residents found themselves under indefinite quarantine. Instead of immediately isolating the infected residents after 68 people were declared Covid-19 positive, all five buildings were put under quarantine, with little information or consultation from the local authority who manage the accommodation.
30/06/2020
The situation of refugees and the impact of coronavirus / Die Situation der Geflüchteten und die Auswirkungen des Coronavirus
Corasol organised a compilation of texts written by different organisations. You will find our text “Coronavirus - whose life counts” on page 14.
29/06/2020
Black Lives Matter x HÖR Fundraising for IWS
Here you can see Jennifer Kamau talk about our work before Juba's set at the Black Lives Matter x HÖR Fundraising event.
25/06/2020
Tear down this shit – deutschlandweite Karte von kolonialen Spuren im öffentlichen Raum
Mit dem Projekt “tear this down” (tearthisdown.com) starten heute die Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) gemeinsam mit dem peng! Kollektiv eine deutschlandweite Karte zu Straßennamen, Denkmälern und anderen Orten mit kolonialem Bezug. Weltweit werden aktuell kolonialrassistische Straßennamen und Statuen im öffentlichen Raum hinterfragt und Gegenstand von Auseinandersetzungen.
25/06/2020
IWS @ #Mygration Festival – 20th June
IWS participated in the first #Mygration Festival event at Pandanoodle on 20. June. At the event, members of IWS talked with the audience about the group, the Lager reports and the COVID situation for refugee women*, and what space means to them.
17/06/2020
#BlackLivesMatter and #LeaveNoOneBehind must be more than slogans – IWS Speech at #SoGehtSolidarisch – June 14
IWS was part of the Aktionsbündnis Antira at the #unteilbar - Band der Solidarität #SoGehtSolidarisch Demo on the 14th June in Berlin. Jennifer Kamau gave a speech:
10/06/2020
Statement on racist police violence – Stellungnahme zu rassistischer Polizeigewalt – Linker Block der Silent Demo Berlin
Bei den Berliner Protesten am vergangenen Samstag anlässlich des Mordes an George Floyd durch weiße Polizisten in den USA, rief uns die deutsche Polizei eindrücklich in Erinnerung, dass auch hierzulande rassistische Polizeigewalt zum Alltag gehört.
05/06/2020
Women report on physical violence and sexual harassment in a Lager in Bernburg (Saale)
The story that we are going to tell you today is the story that we, the ladies B, F, H, K, have suffered in Bernburg (Saale), more precisely at Teichweg 6, a home (Heim) for foreign residents.