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This is a piece I wrote on behalf of International Women* Space and every woman out there!

I am a woman. Queer. Trans. I conform to no gender. I am a sex worker. Heterosexual. Bisexual! I am deeply Religious, no Heck am a proud atheist. Call me a witch on my magical days, or the moon on a mood swing. 

I am a refugee. A migrant. Thoroughly indigenous! I am a Feminist. A warrior. A matriarch. A mother, by choice, or not. Childless, also by choice, or not! A power house! Definitely a goddess! I am who the fuck I say I am. 

Carved from the most Superior. Call me Mother Earth, I mean, heck I filled it, didn’t I? I am Nature. I Am Life. 

I am black, yellow, white fuck it today I am a smurfet. I am blue.

 I am YOU, but I am also ME!  I am WE! 

I am every person that identifies as a woman in the world. My voice is every woman’s voice. 

Guess what? I am also HUMAN! 

The kind that is endangered!

So you bet I am furious, fed up! Just fuckin livid! 

Utterly irked and inflamed that, like my slain sisters, I would also bare my life so others can be free. 

Break every rule you set for me, Fight at every corner with all in me. Kill me you may, but fuck that, it’s a move I intend to play!

I will not drown in the murky waters of patriachy!

But, I am not free until every woman is free, not even when her shackles are different from my own, and her burdens unimaginable to me. 

So on this day we reclaim our voices and call you out! 

For treating us like less than human! 

From the global south we fight and flee, from wars you can’t possibly fathom, 

But our lands are apparently not good enough, go figure, yet you robbed them bare! Not good enough to be human.

Your methods, sneaky and covert,

Yet the sadism so palatable

Creating racist systems and structures, asylum procedures governed by red tape

Placing us in Lagers, legal brewing pots for re-traumatization, 

Our mental health hanging in the balance,

No freedom of movement or right to self determination

Yet with the great audacity of a saviour’s complex, our appreciation for the bare minimum is demanded of us..

Are we not human enough? 

You sanction the pushbacks of migrants and refugees from the Mediterranean

Invest millions in building a detention and deportation center, a buzzing hub of human rights inviolations

All the while welcoming the white Ukranian refugee, “hey, come, live and be free!” 

Yet my security and protection remains culturally and systemically tied to a man,

Let’s face it, the choices before women seeking refuge are neither fair nor enviable, not in any capacity

We flee from families, religious shackles, abusive partners, societal standards and expectations, gender roles, systemic inequality, horrific sexual violence, psychological burdens…I could go on and on…

All I have is my person, my body, my talents, my beauty, intelligence, a bit of mania maybe…my identity! I reclaim it!

Non-negotiable, I can tell you now for free, I won’t trade me. Hell no!

I choose who I want to be. I choose me.

I figured, you must fear the warrior in me, ’tis why you throw all this at me! projecting your toxic bullshit on me, try to keep me quiet and hopefully eventually

kill me…

How about the robbery, with and without violence, of my autonomy, the right to my own person? When you just assume my body is yours for the taking 

Roles and rules you set for me, micromanaging every smile, my life is not my own. 

That makes my blood boil! That you choose what I should wear and who I should bang. You want to handpick my options, and expect me to stay in “my place”

Then taunt, break, maim me, discipline me to get your point across…

Still innovative you are: FGM, domestic violence, sexual harassment, financial violence, infanticide, femicide, marital rape, street and cyber harassment…its just fuckin endless!!

So yes I am an Angry Black woman!

Who wouldn’t be?? 

When you fetishize me and grope me, harass me, rape me, violate my sexual and reproductive health rights..

Make assumptions and decisions over a reproductive organ you don’t carry

When I deny or “defy you”, your tool is corrective rape or assault, that should teach me!

You fetishize me but then humiliate me, misgender me, inspect and mock my body, gawk at me…

You scream my name in pleasure when you switch to incognito tab, yet you tear and strip me of my very dignity and identity!

Your punches may keep me down sometimes, but they will never knock me out! 

See what men fear most about going to prison, is the day to day life of a woman walking down the sidewalk. So take a seat place. You know nothing about being me.

What we can all identify with as women, is that feeling that comes with the chokehold of patriachy, you know, that stifling, suffocating shit that is a literal ticking time bomb?

Don’t we all know too well the feeling of having to fake a phone call, taking a longer route, making conscious steps not to provoke an aggressor?

That sinking feeling, hashtags, another dead woman, 

It dawns on you, a sitting duck barely surviving, 

Some day, it may be YOU who runs out of luck..

We cannot be afraid or hold back, even when the system fights us, trying to divide and conquer us!

We must dismantle and crush all oppressive systems and structures! 

We are more than hashtags, More than our bodies, stories or identities..

Time to call out every person who perpetrates or condones patriachy and gender based violence, even by staying silent in the face of it. 

We are under siege, we must fight every system set in place to break us.

Speak up! Let us demand change, justice and equality!

For until all of us are free and safe, none of us are!

As a woman you call me many names, so remember this one, 

My kind, is called Patriarchy’s Worst Nightmare!

I’m M, a black transgender refugee woman. I live in Bad Saarow which is a lager that is isolated between a forest, a lake, and some Nazis which is halfway to Poland from Berlin. It takes me two hours and four trains to just come here to make this speech. I am not even sure how I will get back to Bad Saarow.

Why am I here today?

Racism, mass migration, civil wars, lack of proper leadership, and stability can all be traced back to slavery, colonialism, and the scramble for and partition of Africa. In this city of Berlin 137 years ago 7 European powers divided the continent Africa like it was cake. Our history and cultures were erased. Our grandparents suffered heavily, they were tortured and families have broken apart. The land was forcefully taken and they were put in concentration camps where they were detained without trial. Artifacts, religious items, and many other prized things were collected from our lands in the name of the Queen, they now sit in museums making European countries money.

And to this day the dialogue in and around reparations is non-existent. After independence, these European countries never formally acknowledged their horrific actions. They installed their cronies as leaders who mismanaged the countries ensuring no proper accountability so they could get our precious minerals where the common citizen never gets to see a penny from exports. Wealth is in the hands of a select few. Countries fall into chaos. As western countries collude with African governments then later in their statements say they are corrupt. Women and children suffer indiscriminately. Young kids work in the mines of the DRC and Germany continues to do trade with the corrupt governments. This is Neocolonialism. As western governments continue to work with these thugs and crooks who are the governments of these countries they are legitimizing them. Then there is the war profiteering business which makes a lot and I mean a lot of money. Germany makes 1.6 Billion (with a  B) euros from selling arms to Israel. They also make a lot of money from selling Medicines and medical equipment to Palestine. Intentionally turning a blind eye to the ongoing occupation, massacre and apartheid rule on Palestine by Israel.  How crazy is this? To add to that, 40% of all total sales of arms done by Germany  is to North Africa and the Middle East where the majority of refugees are from. I leave you to make the correlation

So then refugees from these war-torn countries flee to the perceived ‘safe’ countries… that is western countries and come here, we are treated like we do not belong. Being put in lagers that are in ghost towns. This is real-life psychological torture Germany. Families are being shoved into tiny rooms. These asylum cases are dragging on for years; others have spent over 10 years and are still waiting with no right to work or any sort of schooling or any avenue to get any legal recognition. This is a shame Germany.

All refugees are denied the right to choose where they want to stay but it even gets worse with LGBTQI+ refugees who face danger and discrimination in everyday life. As a Black transgender woman, I, like many others, experience intersectional discrimination, far often than not these actions go unchecked and we suffer in silence!

Navigating the system as a Black Trans refugee is shockingly hard, you have social workers who are not well versed in dealing with the specific issues faced. Access to hormones is limited and almost impossible. The Government should take action to ensure more protection and ease of access for medical needs for trans refugees.  

We demand the right to safe housing, not isolated from LGBTQI+ communities and wider society!  We demand the right to choose where we live! Trans rights are human rights. Refugee rights are human rights. 

We demand Germany to take charge as it did in 1884 while partitioning my continent to do the same now and serve a formal apology to countries affected by colonialism. That should be followed by the return of antiques and artifacts back to where they belong, In the motherland. Reparations are not up for discussion; they are way overdue. And we should dictate the terms.

We demand for german corporations to take a stance against doing business in war torn countries or with dictatorial regimes.

We demand an expanded curriculum in schools talking and teaching extensively about Germany’s colonial past, racism, and a more diversified education covering gender and sexuality. 

If you want to be allies, work with refugee-led, grassroots organizations. Donate your money, your time, and use your voice and your votes.

You have a civic duty to dismantle all the systems that continue to oppress me. Make a fair, equal and just system a reality for all.

In this time, we were fighting for: abolition of the Residenzpflicht, the voucher system, the right to study the German language, the right to work and study, and abolition of Lagers – to break the isolation all asylum seekers are placed into.

In this way they were criminalizing the political movement and the political work as a whole showing how much they wanted to suppress the movement. Drugs have always been used to undermine political movements and uprisings.

So this is when racial profiling subtly started. The denial to access the school which they so much wanted was one reason why they did not enter to do the arrests. When the police came, 3 men ended up being arrested and were put into prison for 5 months while the investigations took place.The justice system claimed that they were trying to run away but the reality is that they were actually protesting in order to get their right to stay. This was a whole 5 months of detention without trial!

Through the Oranienplatz movement, we were able to abolish the Residenzpflicht and the voucher system and got the rights to study, which is what the asylum seekers today are benefiting from.

But now the situation is different – there are the Dublin regulations which are what are being used to illegalize people. This is a law that dictates which country will be responsible for your asylum application. In reality, it has meant that once you enter a European country you have to go through the asylum process there, in the country of arrival. If you try to go to a 2nd or 3rd European country and apply for asylum, they can and will deport you back to the country that you arrived in. This is a tactic the EU is using to deport people.

Because of the Dublin Regulations, many people have become illegalized or undocumented, forcing them into an even more vulnerable situation. This exposes people to all sorts of violence: sexual exploitation, forced prostitution, poor working conditions, and unpaid work. It’s also why some people are forced into operating from this park to earn a living.

And this is how the state uses the vulnerability they create to criminalize people. With laws like Dublin and the criminalization of drugs they are able to justify racial profiling – to stop and arrest people who they suspect are selling drugs or who are here quote ‘illegally’. These criminalizations happen in the streets and it always come with immense police violence and racial profiling.

Now there is a new outcry on the war on drugs and the face of crime has become black or Arab men.

Our question is: Who brings the drugs here and who uses them? Who are the real consumers of these drugs?

When we go back to history, with evidence from the film ‘Wir Kindern von Bahnhof Zoo’, we can clearly see the history of drugs here. There was no Görlitzer park but drugs were still being sold and from the film the peddlers of the drugs were the Germans themselves.

Berlin is heavily publicly commercialised as a great tourist attraction – a place for the European tourists to come and celebrate the ‘multikulti’ and the free drug atmosphere. On the other hand, this same freedom is not applied to the people who are forced to engage in drug peddling.

So we stand here, almost ten years after the Oplatz movement and occupation of the school began, still fighting for the end of the racist asylum and migration policies of the EU – and the end of the policing, racial profiling, and criminalization we experience.

The right wing is using migration to create fear, if you do not want migrants, let us address the reasons as to why people flee because right now the unwanted migrants are fleeing because of the economic and political chaos and turmoil created by Europe.

As we will keep saying: We are here because you destroy our lands.

Let’s vote wisely! Let’s join forces and let’s not stop demanding for a more humane asylum system until we achieve a dignified life for all!

United we stand, divided we fall! … OUR LIVES MATTER!

Hello everyone, l am Jennifer from the International Women* Space and the Break Isolation group.

I acknowledge the efforts of many here, who have contributed to fighting the stigmatisation and racism against African people and people with African descent.

Racism acts to depoliticize us, to prevent us from organising, seeks control of our lives be it socially, economically or politically. Our decisions too, but today we are here to repeat that we will never stop to organise, to protest, to demand justice for those affected and killed by racists, because BLACK LIVES MATTER.

There is a black genocide taking place in the Mediterranean because we live in a world where goods from Africa can enter freely in Europe – but not the people from Africa.

This is the continuation of the colonisation and exploitation of Africa and her resources. This is why so many people flee to seek asylum. But when they do, they are put into an asylum system that tortures and murders in cold blood with no remorse.

A system that traps people in the Lagers to not only keep total control over them but also to isolate them as much as possible.

A system created to profit off of locking up and killing black people.

A system that violates and takes away people’s right to work, to privacy, to education.

The asylum system is one of the most brutal forms of institutional and structural racism here in Germany. And it does this all in the name of human rights.

Germany now even says that having a Duldung is a reason for imprisonment, deportation, expulsion and extradition. The Dublin regulation has caused the illegalization and deportations of thousands of people.

Now there is the hysteria on ‘war on drugs’. Allow me to say that it’s a war on black people. If this really is a war on drugs? Where are the faces of the consumers and the drug barons?

Let’s be clear: the criminalization of migration by the German state is the greatest criminal act of all!

The magnitude of structural and institutional racism in Germany against people of African descent can be seen in the racial profiling by the government and security agencies.

There is a repeated denial that racial profiling does not exist in Germany by the police authorities. It is unacceptable that a police officer cannot be called a racist! If we see a racist act and we cannot name it, how can we denounce racism?

So let’s be clear: Racism is everywhere. Black genocide is happening everywhere.

So when we come to the streets to demand the absolute minimum – that is, that it is acknowledged that BLACK LIVES MATTER, we also want to take a minute to remember our brothers and sisters whose lives were taken by German institutions like the police.

We want to remember:

Rita Owour Ojunge who was killed already 2 years ago in a Lager in Hohenleipisch.
A Lager in the middle of the woods in Brandenburg in total isolation.
Rita’s assassination is still an open criminal case until today.
Rita’s assassin was never found.
A case led by a white police force …
That couldn’t care less if a woman’s black body was missing.

We want to remember:

Robble Warsame, who was living in an Ankercenter – a big deportation center – in Schweinfurt that was repeatedly – like the other refugees living in this Lager – brutally beaten by the security in the Lager before he was taken to the police station where he was later beaten and killed by the police. Again a white police force that is so confidentially telling the lie that he hanged himself.

We ask: How is a man who is 1.78 meters tall supposed to strangle himself with a strip from a blanket, that is considered unbreakable – especially made to prevent suicides in prison- that was placed at a height of 1.50 meters?

We want to remember:

Oury Jalloh, who was killed 16 years ago by police officers in custody at the Dessau police station. After his killing the police launched a campaign to paint him as a criminal, a drug dealer.
A story that we all just know too well.
16 years during which his murder was covered up by the German authorities over and over again until today!

And they are just three cases that we know of. But they stand for thousands and thousands of people that are getting brutalized and killed EVERY DAY.

We demand Justice for Rita and all the people who have been killed by white supremacy:

– in the so called refugee camps in Libya that the German Government is financing
– in the Mediterranean, which has become a mass grave, killed by border security like Frontex – also financed by Germany
– in the Lagers
– in the deportation centers
– at the police station
– at the Ausländerbehörde
– at the Jobcenter
– on the street
– at the park

So we have to fight every day actively to not only chant today that BLACK LIVES MATTER,

but to demand that BLACK LIVES MATTER!

As a last point I want to acknowledge changes that have been happening in the last years in our community:
There is more unity, people are denouncing the colonial tool imposed on them for so many years.

And we are more WOKE – because we are FED UP!

Let’s continue in this spirit, because united we stand, divided we fall!

… OUR LIVES MATTER!

8th March 2021 Demo – IWS Speech

We are here today to demand justice for Rita. Rita Awour Ojunge disappeared on April 7, 2019 from the Lager in Hohenleipisch, where she was forced to live. It took the police over two months before finding her remains, which laid only 200 metres away from the Lager where she had lived for 7 years. Over a year later, the investigation has still not been concluded — despite constant pressure on the police.
We know Rita’s case is not the only one, she represents one of many others.

The German Asylum System caused the death of Rita Ojunge.
White supremacy and racism caused the death of Rita Ojunge.
Misogyny caused the death of Rita Ojunge.

The mainstream white feminism sees the corona crisis as a regression of women‘s rights as women are returned to their traditional roles of being isolated in their homes – as if they, white middle class women, are the main casualties of the pandemic – as if they are the first to get hurt both economically and physically.

But we know that these living conditions, where even social distancing is impossible, and this type of physical, social, political, economic isolation has existed in the Lagers for a long time with the existence of the Lagers. This is the actual daily situation of women living in the Lagers from the time they enter and apply for protection in Germany and Europe. White middle class feminism has always been racist. It has never acknowledged our struggles because they benefit from it.

And then in the Lagers, social workers are using the colonial tool of divide and conquer to perpetuate the good and bad refugee syndrome. The result is continued racism towards black communities.

All of this shows: No Lager is safe. We need to self-organize.

Especially now, as Germany and the EU, under the veil of the pandemic, continue to practice restrictive border controls, constant racial profiling and rampant deportations which are enhanced by the Dublin regulation. The pushbacks and the collective expulsions continue to take place, denying people the possibility for personal and independent asylum examinations. These are fundamental violations of the right to asylum at the borders.

There is a commission that has been formed to investigate these acts being perpetuated by Frontex. But how can we trust this Commission? As Audrey Lorde says, we quote “the master’s tool will never dismantle the master’s house”.

We call for an independent, transparent and democratic commission which includes the players themselves. And as long as we are living in this country, in Fortress Europe, we demand to be a part of any politics that affect us. We have been silenced for too long and we will no longer remain silent.

We demand justice and conviction of Rita’s murderer!
We demand the abolishment of the Lager and asylum system!
We demand the dismantling of the Fascist and colonial Frontex system!

Break the silence, break the system!

Violence against women is of pandemic proportions. Racism and discriminatory practices based on skin color, country of origin, gender and class kill women everywhere on daily basis. The covid 19 pandemic is one more challenge we are having to deal with in a world that is historically brutal to women.

For women seeking asylum in this country the Covid 19 pandemic worsened a situation that was already miserable. And we mean the isolation and invisibility of migrant women living in refugee camps. An isolation and an invisibility that killed Rita Awour Ojunge, whose assassination is still an open criminal case, whose assassin was never found. A case led by a white police force that couldn’t care less if a woman’s Black body was missing.

With or without the Covid 19 pandemic, deportations continue to be business as usual police continues to be called against women in refugee camps as usual. What is different with the Covid 19 pandemic is that now many of us can be sent back to regions of the world where states have failed to an extent. That no protection is given, not against a virus, not against anything.

And who’s to blame? The greed of the patriarchal-capitalist colonial system that has sucked out the raw materials of the Global South leaving millions exposed to a kind of violence that leave us with no other choice but to migrate. To come knocking at the doors of Fortress Europe that is ready to push us back using their Frontex to kill us at the borders.

Those who survived the journey to Europe know it all too well and that is why we want to address the problem by saying the right-wing shit alone is not responsible:

For the externalisation of borders
For the rise of racism in the police
For the export of weapons
For the shady deals done between Europe and dictators
For the support of coup d’etats
For the stealing of the resources of the global south
For the wars and impoverishment in the Global South

There is a complicit alliance. That must be stopped. If the political class that calls itself left wants legitimacy they must listen to our demands. And as migrants we want to repeat: We are here because you destroyed our lands!

Stop with the plundering!  Stop making alliances with fascists that offer you a free and cheap access to our resources. Enough of this colonial patriarchal-capitalist system!

Hoch die Alliance of Internationalist Feminists!

Abortion is the essence of every woman’s right to own her own body! Abortion is a question of public health, and we from the International Women Space stand in total solidarity with the women in Poland and totally against this newly near total ban of abortion in their country!

The approval of the ruling has been delayed and today we are here to recognize our achievements but also to say we will not recognize decisions taken by the body of a supreme court, formed by a majority of religious fundamentalist white men!

Not in Poland, not anywhere! Misogynistic laws must be broken! Violent laws that lead women to perform unsafe abortions must be broken! Because all women know and everybody knows Women DO make abortions and will CONTINUE to make abortions!

We are sure that all these powers in Europe: Governments, Legislators, the catholic church CANNOT care less if women making an abortion is not a white woman! If it’s a migrant! If its a Black woman or a woman of colour.

We call on doctors in Poland and all around the world to go on civil disobedience! And provide safe abortions!

The irony though is that the same people banning abortions for white women would EVEN support sterilization for us migrants. This is how Capitalist patriarchy works and this misoginist system must be held accountable for the Femicide!

Another irony is to see how much empathy is given to foetuses when full grown, living human beings are drowning in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Europe! And no state, no institution care! No church, no defenders of human life care! White apathy is violence! White supremacy kills. Whose lives matter?

We call all internationalist feminists to raise against all misogynistic laws!

Hoch die Internationale Solidarität!

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We also attended the demo on 31st October in Berlin – Wir Sind Richtig AngePISsst!:

Video from leftvision:

Photos by IWS:

Today our thoughts and our hearts are with the victims and survivors of the attack in Halle and their families. Please know that you are not alone, that we are many.

In IWS, the International Women’s Space, we are a group of migrant and refugee women, and some of us are also Jewish. A year ago, we were in our weekly meeting as we heard about the shooting in Halle. It was immediately clear to us that this is an anti-semitic crime, but also a crime against all of us:

The shooting in Halle was clearly an anti-semitic and anti-Jewish attack, but it was also a misogynist attack, an anti-Muslim attack, an anti Black and racist attack.

We are now exactly one month before 9.Nov, the so-called crystal night or Reichspogromnacht. The official German memory culture would like to shift the role of the state from the executioner to the protector. But what we take from our history is that we cannot rely on the state for protection, not of ourselves and certainly not of others.

Today, the state offers us, as Jews, protection. In the form of financial resources, police officers, and ridiculous public campaigns like the racist Shabbat-Shabbat campaign of the CDU.

The reality is that we can’t be protected by a state that is racist and capitalist.
A state that exports weapons and fails to secure the lives of those who escape war.
A state that sends 5000 policemen to evict 20 women from their home in Liebigstraße right here and now in Berlin.

A state that protect the right of rich white cis-men to accumulate wealth, but not the rights of women, queers and migrants for housing.

A state that is responsible for hundreds of asylum seekers drowning in the Mediterranean sea.

A state that closes its eyes to its own deeply rooted racism and that blames Muslims and refugees for importing anti-semitism.

They tell us Einzeltäter – but as feminists, we know that there is no such thing as Einzeltäter. All these men are products of a patriarchal white-supremacist system that puts profit over people.

Our fight against anti semitism must be in the context of resistance against racism, capitalism and all forms of state violence.

Enough with the bullshit idea that Germany is done with racism after the Second World War, and all it has to do now is to “Never Forget”. We won’t let Germany white-wash itself by instrumentalizing Jews.

The German state, with the complicity of reactionary Jewish institutions, acts systematically to separate anti-semitism from other forms of racism, and to isolate Jews from other minorities. We say NO. We choose solidarity over the illusion of state protection.

And so, as we stand here today with the survivors of Halle, we also stand with the families of the victims of Hanau, with the women in Liebig, with Roma and Sinti who are fighting to protect their Holocaust memorial, with all the victims of the German asylum system and border regime.

Together we are strong!

– IWS

The “comfort women” working group of the Korea Verband erected a Statue of Peace in Berlin-Moabit at the corner of Birkenstraße and Bremer Straße to raise awareness of the issue of sexualized violence. On Monday, September 28, 2020 at 3pm, the statue was officially inaugurated with a ceremony and speeches by, among others, district councillor Sabine Weißler (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), Dr. Insa Eschebach, the former director of the Ravensbrück Memorial, and Dr. Kien Nghi Ha.

The Statue of Peace commemorates the more than 200,000 girls and women from 14 countries who were sexually enslaved as “comfort women” by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War (1931- 1945) in the entire Asia-Pacific region. The first bronze Statue of Peace created by the artists Kim Seo-Kyung and Kim Eun-Sung was erected in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea on December 14, 2011 for the 1,000th Wednesday demonstration by “The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan” in dedication to the “comfort women” . It is internationally regarded as a symbol against war crimes against girls and women.

The statue is intended to draw attention to the survivors’ demands for recognition, a formal apology, and reparations, which have not been met to this day. It also represents the continued sexualized violence perpetrated against women both in armed conflicts and in peacetime. “The statue of peace is there to admonish and remind, as well as an incentive to prosecute, punish, and ultimately eradicate crimes against girls and women,” said Nataly Jung-Hwa Han, Chairwoman of the Korea Verband.

There were already two Statue of Peace in Germany: The first statue was erected in 2017 in Wiesent near Regensburg in the Nepal Himalayan Park. The second is located in Frankfurt at Korean Protestant Church Parish Rhein-Main. This is the first time a Statue of Peace is being placed in a public square in Berlin.

It was brought to Berlin from South Korea as a gift from “The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan”. The installation was planned in cooperation with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft reUnion, an association of organizations from Moabit around the installation site at Unionsplatz, with the aim of making it a lively place of encounter in the neighborhood.

For the erection of the statue, an alliance for the Statue of Peace in Germany was founded, which 30 organizations have already joined. The alliance will oversee the preservation and care of the Statue of Peace, and will be doing educational work to raise awareness about the importance of the Statue of Peace more broadly and its importance specifically in German history.

Support the installation of the Statue of Peace with a donation!

Civil society initiatives from Germany and South Korea have brought the Statue of Peace to Berlin through their own efforts to ensure a memorial against sexualized violence and colonialism exists. The installation and maintenance of the statue will involve a great deal of financial effort. Support the preservation of the statue with a donation! A membership would also be of great help. Further information on how you can support us can be found here: https://www.koreaverband.de/spenden/.