Links

Background information

  • List of Victims
    All murder victims of extreme-right and racist attacks since reunification in 1990.
  • Documentation and Information Center for Racism Research
    The Dokumentations- und Informationszentrum für Rassismusforschung D.I.R. e.V. (Documentation and Information Center for Racism Research), online at www.dir-info.de, sees itself as a center of information and exchange for people, groups and projects that work against racism, xenophobia and right-wing extremism. D.I.R. provides daily updated news and information, documents, topic pages and statistics on its newly redesigned website, which also includes an extensive link list that directs users to current projects, and documents university and college-level activities. Within the framework of the Antiracist Network, D.I.R. concentrates on the self-representations of groups, initiatives and projects and on information regarding the topics of university and college research and racism. It’s also possible to order D.I.R. material from the website.
  • Exhibition Topography of Terror | Anschläge am Bauzaun
    This exhibition on right-wing extremism in Germany since 1990 was developed as part of a semester project called »Attacks against the Right?« for the Communications and Design Department of the Berlin art school, Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. As a critical reaction to the call for entries in the poster competition, »Anschläge gegen Rechts« (Attacks against the Right), which was sponsored by the German section of the Internationalen Grafikdesigner Verbandes AGI (International Graphic Designer Association) in autumn of 2000, we would like to discuss the problem of right-wing extremism at a deeper level and thereby also address the way it could be visually represented and dealt with in the media.

Supporting projects

  • Amadeu Antonio Foundation
    The Amadeu Antonio Stiftung (Foundation) – Initiatives for Civil Society and Democratic Culture – supports projects with teachers, policewomen and men, as well as victims of racist violence; establishes contacts with local networks; and carries out events of its own. The foundation’s website provides information about current areas of work and introduces a selection of projects they have supported.
  • TOGETHER. Network for Democracy and World Openness in Saxony-Anhalt
    The grassroots association, MITEINANDER. Netzwerk für Demokratie und Weltoffenheit in Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. (TOGETHER. Network for Democracy and World Openness in Saxony-Anhalt), works at a local level for the development of civil society values and against right-wing extremism and xenophobia. The association’s website lists contact persons and provides information on activities in regional centers.
  • Pro Asyl
    Pro Asyl is a human rights organization that is particularly committed to refugee issues: legal position, advice, documentation
  • Aktion Noteingang
    The campaign, Noteingang (Emergency Entrance) of the Demokratischen Jugendforums Brandenburg e.V. (DJB or Democratic Youth Forum of Brandenburg) provides concrete protection and information programs against racist attacks. They speak to store and restaurant owners, branch managers, managers of social facilities and other public institutions, and distribute stickers which show people who are being persecuted that this is a place where they will find immediate protection in case of danger. Rounding off the site is a list of contact addresses and tips on how to behave in situations of acute danger. They also have a virtual survey which is intended to scientifically analyze the attitudes of the people (store owners, etc.) contacted.
  • Help for victims in Switzerland
    Help for victims of racist discrimination – an analysis of what’s available in Switzerland.

Activities of the German federal government

Media echo

  • Panorama TV show »The Silenced Dead«
    Panorama TV show »Die verschwiegenen Toten« – contradictory federal and state statistics concerning victims of extreme-right violence.
  • All Tagesspiegel newspaper articles on right-wing extremism
    The whole spectrum of the issues of racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism in Germany.
  • Media responsibility concerning the issue of xenophobia
    »The media (re)produce the prejudicial picture that the majority of Germans have of foreigners: crime, drug dealers and the Mafia; strange concepts of honour and Islamic terror; waiting in line for welfare; expensive support from the social system for every conceivable problem. Then there are the multicultural human interest pieces that the same media produce to assuage their guilty conscience and that produce almost the same fatal effects in the German reader.«
  • The danger of a further escalation of violence – counteraction is possible.
    "Violence against minorities in Germany is a sad issue. The media is full of reports of abuse and attacks against minorities – murders are no longer rare occurrences. The situation is no longer acceptable. Massive countermeasures should have been taken long ago. Societal »aberrations«, like increases in xenophobic violence and the acceptance of it, are tending to be progressively escalating processes. Time is running out."

Back to editorial: Residency Rights for Victims of Racist Violence

Dossier #6: The campaign initiated by agOra, the Working Committee for Counseling Projects for Victims of Racist, Extreme-Right and Anti-Semitic Violence. This campaign is committed to unlimited residency rights for refugees and migrants who have become victims of racist violence.

  1. Residency Rights for Victims of Racist Violence
  2. The Campaign
  3. »Right-wing extremism makes headlines when it can sell papers.«
  4. Focusing on the Victims
    (Opferperspektive e.V.)
  5. The Victim Counseling Center ABAD
    (Friedrich C. Burschel and Rahel Krückels)
  6. Interview with Bundestag President, Wolfgang Thierse
  7. Regional Victim Counseling Projects
  8. Links