Press Releases

Press Release: Cologne, February 1, 2018. As of February 5, women and girls who were raped during the 1998/99 Kosovo war will be able to apply for a pension. In March 2014 the country’s parliament passed the first draft of a law that these days finally provides all survivors of war-related sexualised violence with a monthly...

Press Release: Cologne, November 2, 2016. As of November 1, three women are in charge of the women’s rights organisation medica mondiale. The founder and Executive Board Member Monika Hauser is joined by Elke Ebert, previously Head of the Finance and Administration Department, and the former Regional Officer for Iraq and Syria,...

Press Release: Cologne, September 29, 2016. Millions of women and girls experience sexualised violence every day in the war and crisis regions which are the origin of the refugees who come to Germany. On Germany’s National Day of Refugees on September 30, the women’s rights organisation medica mondiale is appealing to the German...

Press Release: Cologne, 16 June 2016. “Rape and other forms of gender based violence are still gruesome everyday reality for many women and girls in crisis areas,” says Monika Hauser, founder of the women’s rights organisation medica mondiale, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in...

Press Release: Cologne, 16 June 2016. “Rape and other forms of gender based violence are still gruesome everyday reality for many women and girls in crisis areas,” says Monika Hauser, founder of the women’s rights organisation medica mondiale, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in...

Press Release: Cologne, October 29, 2015. Fifteen years ago, on October 31, 2000, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1325 on “Women, Peace and Security”. Its main demands are the participation of women in peace processes and the protection of women from sexualised violence during armed conflict. “Neither the...