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“They are experiencing multiple levels of trauma,” says the medical chief of this special quota project. “There is the individual trauma, of course. And the collective trauma; because the genocide was directed at their entire community.”
The massive attacks, which ranged from groping to rape and involved men having a “North African or Arabic” appearance, are beginning to reshape Germany’s open-door policy on refugees. At the same time, women’s rights activists are flagging missteps by police and politicians.
European countries have been following the lead of Norway and instituting quotas for women on corporate boards. Nele Feldmann says Germany should follow suit and demand more from companies than voluntary promises.
At Europe’s largest all-female boxing club, the sport is promoted as helping women and girls succeed in life outside the ring. One 10-year-old wants to build her muscles, even though she has little opportunity to take her sport to the highest level.
Women’s centers in Germany that cater to Muslims provide counseling for domestic and religious issues that providers say sidestep thorny issues of identity that rise with secular services.
A garden in Kassel, Germany, provides a place for immigrant women to put down roots and cultivate the taste of home. Across the country, such intercultural gardens are helping to integrate cultures and provide healing spaces.
For nearly two decades a German bomb-making feminist lived abroad under different identities. Today, as she returns from exile to live the quiet life, some say she symbolizes how little militancy is left in German women’s activism.
A women’s film festival that just marked its 20th year shows the movie industry’s structural resistance to newcomers, organizers say. In Germany, for instance, women are near parity in film schools but win marginal industry financing.
With the German birth rate at an all-time low, politicians and demographers are wondering how to encourage women to have babies. Some say more child care is the key. Second story on the European Union, women and work.
As the May deadline for the Czech Republic’s European Union entry approaches, the issue of girls and prostitution along the border between Germany and the Czech Republic has become a source of controversy.