In a study published in December 2021, nine of ten schools surveyed in Berlin’s migrant-rich Neukölln district reported regular incidents of religiously motivated bullying or oppression of girls (Source). The recently re-elected government of Berlin consisting of Social Democrats (SPD), Green Party and the far-left Die Linke party, has had Greens and Linke members speak…
The northern part of Neukölln is an urban district of superlatives. More than 60 per cent of its inhabitants have a “migration background” and 73.5 per cent of the children live in poverty. Nowhere else in Germany do so many inhabitants draw unemployment benefit, government transfer payments or Hartz IV welfare benefits. The number of…
The “Heroes” project in Berlin is designed to help boys from Muslims families to break with traditional patriarchal behavior patterns and stand up against honor being used as a means of suppression. Regina Friedrich reports “Heroes” meeting in Berlin, Germany (photo: © Verein Strohhalm e.V.) “Imagine my sister goes out one night and something happens…
