{"id":4718,"date":"2019-01-24T18:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2019-01-24T18:33:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:33:50","slug":"women-have-been-voting-for-a-100-years-and-still-our-voices-dont-count-arent-we-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/en\/allgemein\/women-have-been-voting-for-a-100-years-and-still-our-voices-dont-count-arent-we-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Women have been voting for a 100 years and still our voices don`t count! &#8221; aren`t we women\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.women-in-exile.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG-20190123-WA0003-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4719\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We gave the following speech at the Women\u2019s March in Berlin, Germany in front of the Humboldt University on January 19, 2019. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All around the world we are seeing day after day how millions of women* are taking to the streets saying enough is enough, showing the world women*\u2019s power. Women* are fighting for their rights in all front lines, from big demonstrations like Women&#8217;s March, 8 March women strike or Women Wall. We refugee women* we resist every day to deportations, racism, sexism and discrimination in lagers, in offices, in houses and on the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women* are farmers,\ndoctors, students, professors, hairdressers, drivers, coaches,\nsecretaries, old, middle age and young, with and without papers.\nWomen* are diverse, different, multiple, have different voices and\ncolors but united are unbeatable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As refugee women* we came here to stay and we fight for our rights as women and the discriminating asylum laws which threatens our stay.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We fight for freedom of movement, racism and sexism; adversities which are following us from our countries of origin, on our long dreadful journeys and in our host countries. We do not forget that most of our flight reasons are man-made calamities like war, bad governance and poverty incited by the so called \u201cdeveloped countries\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of us lose our\nlifes on our flight journeys due to the European \u201cborder\u201d closing\npolicies. We expect effective human justice to all those who have\nlost and are losing their life\u2019s at European borders, in the\nMediterranean sea, those committing suicides in lagers due to\ndepressions and traumas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We, refugee women*,\ntogether with solidarity activists are building a history of bridging\nthe refugee movement and the feminist movement, with the intention of\nending racism, sexism and discrimination. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Women have been\nvoting for a 100 years and still our voices don`t count! &#8221;\naren`t we women\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We\nwill continue to empower refugee women* to understand their rights\nand advocate for themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We\nwon\u2019t give up, we will fight until freedom comes and we will be\njoyful rebels.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Right\nto come, right to stay, right to go!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We gave the following speech at the Women\u2019s March in Berlin, Germany in front of the Humboldt University on January 19, 2019. All around the world we are seeing day after day how millions of women* are taking to the streets saying enough is enough, showing the world women*\u2019s power. 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