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medica mondiale setzt sich ein für die Rechte von Frauen und fordert Prävention von sexualisierter Kriegsgewalt sowie effektiven Schutz und Unterstützung.

Invitation: Exchange day in Bonn
11th September: Strengthening capacities of healthcare providers in dealing with stress, trauma and sexualised and gender-based violence (SGBV)

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Deutsche Welle TV-Interview
Monika Hauser talks about the children of war in Bosnia, whose life began some 25 years ago as their mothers were raped.

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“Trauma is a serious obstacle to peace-building.”
Interview with Jasna Zecevic of Vive Žene and Ajna Jusic of „Forgotten Children of War“ about traumatic wartime experiences, the stigmatisation of victims of sexualised violence, reconciliation and peace.

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Current asylum policies in Germany put refugee women at risk.

19. June 2018

Current asylum policies put refugee women at risk

Press Release: Cologne, 14 June 2018. “The planned law on a new policy to cover family reunification for people with ‘subsidiary protection’ will have a particular impact on women and girls,” says Monika Hauser, founder of medica mondiale, on...

Children, who were conceived during wartime rape are stigmatised just like their mothers.

23. May 2018

Sarajevo: Children of War – Decades of Silence

To live in peace. That is surely everybody’s desire. So how can a society find peace in the wake of war? Is everything really over when the last bombs have been dropped and the last machine gun fired? There is a powerful desire to simply turn...

medica mondiale and the KOK are calling on the national government not to go ahead with the plans to set up Anchor Centres.

17. May 2018

All-in-one ‘Anchor’ Centres increase likelihood of violence against female refugees

Press Release: Cologne/Berlin, 17 May 2018. “Based on the ‘transit centres’ used in Bavaria, this type of mass accommodation sets the priority clearly on the side of isolation and deportation rather than protection and integration of refugees,”...

The exchange with the other women in a Vive Žene group has given Fazila support and self-confidence.

24. May 2018

Bosnian partner organisation Vive Žene: Helping lives to continue

The split is deep. More than 20 years after the end of the war, society in Bosnia and Herzegovina is still divided. Prejudice, ethnic and religious polarisation, and discrimination still have a strong influence on the way people live with each...

19. June 2018
Current asylum policies put refugee women at risk

Press Release: Cologne, 14 June 2018. “The planned law on a new policy to cover family reunification for people with ‘subsidiary protection’ will have a particular impact on women and girls,” says Monika Hauser, founder of medica mondiale, on...
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23. May 2018
Sarajevo: Children of War – Decades of Silence

To live in peace. That is surely everybody’s desire. So how can a society find peace in the wake of war? Is everything really over when the last bombs have been dropped and the last machine gun fired? There is a powerful desire to simply turn...
Read more
17. May 2018
All-in-one ‘Anchor’ Centres increase likelihood of violence against female refugees

Press Release: Cologne/Berlin, 17 May 2018. “Based on the ‘transit centres’ used in Bavaria, this type of mass accommodation sets the priority clearly on the side of isolation and deportation rather than protection and integration of refugees,”...
Read more
24. May 2018
Bosnian partner organisation Vive Žene: Helping lives to continue

The split is deep. More than 20 years after the end of the war, society in Bosnia and Herzegovina is still divided. Prejudice, ethnic and religious polarisation, and discrimination still have a strong influence on the way people live with each...
Read more