Category: World

20. May 2021
Portrait Women World

“Queen of the Condom”

Monika Krause-Fuchs from the German city of Rostock on the Baltic Sea once organised the national sex education for Fidel Castro in Cuba.

It was actually beneath the Cuban man’s dignity to use a condom. But Monika Krause promoted it on behalf of the Castro family. When she vividly demonstrated on television how it worked, she was given the nickname “Reina del condón” (“The Queen of the Condom”) on the island.

Monika Krause-Fuchs passed away on 20 May 2019 in Glucksburg on the Baltic Sea.

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    Monika Krause ©private
27. February 2021
Muslim world Politics World

Muslim slave trade in pre-colonial Africa

To mark the end of BLACK HISTORY MONTH in February:

The trade in African slaves is one of the darkest chapters in Western history. But even before Europe’s colonial rulers divided Africa amongst them, human trafficking flourished there: Africans hunted down other Africans and sold them to Muslim slave traders.

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Mosque in Niger ©Rebecca Hillauer
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23. October 2020
Politics World

The Belarusian diaspora is networking

Since election day on 9 August 2020, protests against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko have continued in Belarus. The EU Parliament has also sent a signal: The 2020 Sakharov Prize for Democracy and Human Rights goes to the opposition in Belarus. In Berlin, the association “Razam” wants to give the Belarusian diaspora a voice.

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Social worker Thérèse Mema informs about sexual violence © Bettina Flitner
20. September 2020
Women World

Eastern Congo: Raped women and their children

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, armed militias have been waging war against the population for decades. Rape is a daily occurrence. Many of the women become pregnant and give birth to a child. Neither their families nor society accept these children. Social workers care for rape victims and their families.

The feature was nominated for the Juliane Bartels Media Award 2014.

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16. September 2020
Culture Women World

Cruel witch hunts – today

For 40 years, the Swiss nun Lorena Jenal has been living and working in Papua New Guinea and fighting against witch hunts here.


The German Catholic relief organisation missio has proclaimed August 10th as International Day against Witchcraft. It is to be celebrated in memory of Christina, who was accused of witchcraft in Papua New Guinea – and managed to escape. Especially women are accused, persecuted and in many cases tortured and killed.

ORF Ö1, September 16, 2020
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    Christina und Sr. Lorena ©Bettina Flitner
14. July 2020
Politics Women World

Philippine nun branded as terrorist

In the Philippines, under President Duterte, drug addicts and criminals are being extrajudicially murdered by paramilitaries. Government critics also fall victim to this practice. Among them are said to be four Catholic priests. Now a nun fears for her life.

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Sister Mary Manansan ©private
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Schuhe der Familie O'Brien, die bei einem Bombenanschlag der „Ulster Volunteer Force“ getötet wurde. ©Peter McKane (mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Museum of Free Derry)
20. March 2019
Politics World

Northern Ireland: before Brexit is after Brexit

Northern Ireland is in the spotlight because of the upcoming Brexit, and not only because of that: it is the 50th anniversary of the start of the Northern Ireland conflict. What does Brexit do to the fragile peace between the northern part of Ireland, which is part of Great Britain, and the Republic of Ireland in the south? How people in Northern Ireland see their future: a situation report,

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