Measures being taken to slow the spread of the Coronavirus have restricted access to refugee shelters and camps. But organized refugee women continue to reach out to residents, people who are locked up and lack access to information about the ongoing pandemic.
As long as patriarchy perpetuates the violent idea that men have more rights than women, no one will live in freedom. The moment for internationalist feminism is here.
A documentary team from the International Women’s Space (Berlin) met with an Iraqi refugee who has been forcibly separated from her family, both by her husband and by the German state.
“We thought there was much more respect for human rights in Europe, before leaving home. But considering what happened to us on the way, we are very, very disappointed.”
These are brave people who will not give up no matter how many pounds or euros are invested in fences, police forces or in European racist regimes. The refugees are slowly changing the world as we know it.
I gave them everything I had, my identity, my story, my passport. When you leave your country, you don’t collect proof of what is happening, you just leave. I really thought I would be accepted, however they rejected my case. I was shocked. Now I have no hope. I never lied. I thought they would be rational.
