“Hallo, this is ___ from ___ and here, what is going on…” – Lager Reports, April 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.


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Struggles of women* on the move Alarmphone – Women and LGBTQI+ Report, April 2020

When the crowd gathered for the Women’s Day demonstration on March 8, 2020 at 10am in front of Cinema Riff at Grand Socco in Tangier, Moroccan feminists, Sub-Saharan women for freedom of movement, single mothers, and a few Europeans came together. The women of our local Alarm Phone team, all from Sub-Saharan Africa, would sit together afterwards with some of their friends from Europe and start to write down their experiences for this report.


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FUNDRAISING FOR THE SOLIDARITY NETWORK OF WZ RIO

Women collectives from the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro self organized together a solidarity campaign – Teia de Solidariedade Zona Oeste - to attend invisibilized communities in the poorest area of Rio city, which already face serious consequences from the Coronavirus crisis.


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Welcome to Europe re-launches their Multilingual Webguide: Independent information for refugees and migrants coming to Europe

Created in 2010, this project was born in the struggles against the border regime and for a decade has been providing information and contacts in almost all European countries as well as in various transit-countries around the Mediterranean.


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Corona-Reports aus Geflüchtetenunterkünften: Das Schweigen brechen!

Der International Women Space (IWS) veröffentlicht aus gegebenen Anlass Corona-Lager-Berichte. Die Corona-Lager-Berichte sind Audioaufnahmen persönlicher Zeugnisse von Frauen, die in Brandenburger Geflüchtetenunterkünften (Lager, Heime, Erstaufnahmeeinrichtungen) untergebracht sind.


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Decolonization in Action Podcast: Migrant Chronicles in the Age of Coronavirus

For migrants living in Berlin, COVID-19 is raising questions about the health conditions of loved ones living abroad, as well as the rise of draconian measures that are linked with increased surveillance internationally. During this podcast episode, edna bonhomme speaks with two anticolonial migrants based in Berlin: Mugo Muna and Jennifer Kamau.


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Women from the IWS-Break Isolation Group report about their situation in the Lagers

The Break Isolation Group (BIG) at International Women* Space is a group of self-organised refugee women that was formed in February 2019 as a result of the quest to share their own experiences as refugees in Germany in their own voices.


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Schlafplätze und Rückzugsorte gesucht – Solidarität in Zeiten von Corona

Die aktuelle Corona-Krise und die damit einhergehenden notwendigen Einschnitte in unser alltägliches Leben treffen uns alle. Jedoch gibt es Personengruppen, die verschärft unter der Situation leiden. Während zu Hause bleiben das aktuelle Gebot ist, um eine eigene Ansteckung und Verbreitung des Virus zu verhindern, ist diese Option für obdachlose Menschen nicht verfügbar.


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Strengthening Innovative Solutions to Protect Female Migrant and Refugee Rights

New publication - with input from Jennifer Kamau - provides innovative solutions and lessons learned from a transnational collaboration among national migrant feminist associations and groups across Europe.


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#AFROZENSUS – Erfahrungen teilen, Politik verändern, Gesellschaft gestalten

More than one million people of African descent live in Germany. In the large #AFROZENSUS online survey, which will be launched in the spring of 2020, the life realities, discrimination experiences and perspectives of Black, African and Afro-diasporic people will be recorded for the first time.


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