News, updates and infos from IWS, our network and beyond...
“Hello, good afternoon everyone. This is ___ reporting from Michendorf.” – Lager Reports, January 2021
The latest lager reports - audio reports on the situation with coronavirus and other topics from women living in refugee accommodation centres in and around Berlin - with transcription in English and translation into German.
“I am reporting from Massow, Halbe. Massow has recorded many cases of Corona” – Lager Reports, December 2020
The latest lager reports - audio reports on the situation with coronavirus and other topics from women living in refugee accommodation centres in and around Berlin - with transcription in English and translation into German.
IWS RADIO #10 | EU Border Politics: Dirty Deals, Externalisations & Pushbacks
Syrine from Watch the Med - Alarmphone and Christina from Women* in Exile & Friends join Killa and Jennifer to discuss EU Border Politics and how these policies impact the situation for migrants and refugees in Germany -- and what have to be our strategies to fight back.
IWS RADIO #09 | Migration & Mental Health: Creating Support Networks For Women
Jennifer and Denise discuss with Lucía Muriel and Jasmin Eding about mental health, mental illness, isolation, and torture - and how we can create a support network for migrant and refugee women living in Lagers.
Herbstseminare BeVisible 2020: Anti-Black Racism and Resistance through Self-organization
On 11. December 2020, Jennifer from IWS gave a talk on anti-Black racism and resistance through self-organizing for the third event of the BeVisible Herbseminare series organized by Trixiewiz e.V.
SPAM 5 “Ils ont partagé le monde, plus rien ne m’étonne”
Jennifer from IWS spoke on an episode of SPAM, a radio program of undesired-desired messages. The Afrika Diva Collectif activates four spaces in Germany (Berlin and Halle a.d. Saale) and the D.R. Congo (Kinshasa and Goma) to discuss connections and disconnections, colonial repercussions, im-/possible ways of interacting beyond colonial power structures and other spam.
Rote Brause – Folge 21: Es geht um Widerstand!
Rote Ampel für Polizisten / Mieter*innenkampf macht Eindruck / CSD braucht neuen Vorstand / Außerdem: Internationaler Tag gegen Gewalt gegen Frauen, nicht-binäre-, trans- und inter-Personen
“Covid is one more challenge we are having to deal with in a world that is historically brutal to women”
IWS' speech, read by Lavender Samuel at the SOLIDARITY IS NOT ENOUGH - IT IS ABOUT RESISTANCE demo on the International Day of the Elimination of Violence against Women* - 25th November 2020
Violence against women – Refugee abuse victims are inadequately protected
By Antonia Groß for berliner-zeitung.de. Germany is a signatory of an international agreement defending women's rights - but the inner workings of its own systems often do little to help.
Gewalt gegen Frauen: Partnerschaftliche Gewalt: Der Staat als Nebentäter
von Antonia Groß auf berliner-zeitung.de - Mit der Istanbul-Konvention bekennen sich Regierungen zur Bekämpfung der Gewalt gegen Frauen. Doch deutsches Recht verhindert den Schutz aller Betroffenen. Die Frauen vom International Women* Space kämpfen gegen die mehrfache Diskriminierung geflüchteter Frauen.