“Measures against violence in the name of honour”
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Project period: 2004-2005
A project by the Swedish women’s organisation Kvinnoforum, sponsored in the European Program against Poverty and Social Exclusion.
The aim is the establishment of a Germany-wide network against violence in the name of honour. In addition, three full-day meetings took place including representatives from politics, schools, police, youth offices and counselling organisations. Further, there were expert conferences in Stockholm, Utrecht, Glasgow and Cyprus.
Additionally, further education courses about violence in the name of honour were held in Berlin for the Berlin police and staff of the Berlin Anti-violence projects.
Lead organisation:
- Sweden: Kvinnoforum
Partner Organisations:
- Germany
- Papatya (German project leadership)
- Terre des Femmes
- Berlin intervention office against family violence
- Cyprus: Mediterranean Institute of Gender studies
- Netherlands: Transact
- Finland: The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare
- Bulgaria: Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation
„Muslim Women Across Europe - Voices From Behind the Veil“
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Project period: 2001 – 2002
An internet project of the University of Nottingham.
The three projects, which operate in practice interviewed clients about their life situations and their experience with violence and created five anonymised curriculum vitae ( life stories) and put them online. The University of Nantes provided the technical expertise for dealing with the Internet.
In conclusion an exchange of experience took place between countries with conferences in Amsterdam, Paris and Nottingham, which enabled wider public dissemination. The goal was to sensitise expert staff about the situations and experiences of their clients.
Partner Organisation:
- United Kingdom:
- University of Nottingham
- Asian Women’s project Nottingham
- Germany: Papatya
- Netherlands: Women’s Refuge Amsterdam
- France: University of Nantes
Further information: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/grants/results/daphne-toolkit/content/muslim-women-across-europe-voices-behind-veil_en
“Improvement of Offers for Help for Girls and Young Women from the Islamic Cultural Area”
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Project period: 1999-2000
The project consisted of nine partner organisations from Germany, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Spain, Austria and Turkey, which specialised in offering help to girls with a special need for protection.
The staff of Papatya undertook study trips to the partner countries to learn about the debates on migration there, their youth help systems as well as their special offers of help for girls with migration backgrounds.
After that a week-long seminar in Berlin was held with 30 staff from all the participating countries as well as an expert conference with 300 participants. The focus was networking and exchange of effective support.
This enabled the establishment of the “Berlin Working Group against Forced Marriage”, which still operates today.
Partner Organisations:
- Germany: Papatya, Wasta – Working Group for the foreign child, Infrau and Kardelen
- Turkey: Kadin Dayannisma Dernegi Eskisekir; Kadin 2000/Kadinin Insan Haklari Bilgi Belge Merkezi/TR
- Netherlands: Saadet
- Sweden: Terrafem und Kvinnojourer i Väst
- Spain: Associacio FADA per a l’Assessorament i la Prevencio dels Abusos Sexuals a Menors
- France: AGFAS Association Gardoise Femmes Accueil Solidarite and Elele
- Austria: Orientexpress
Protection from Family Violence for Girls and Young Women from the Islamic Cultural Area
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Project period: 1997-1998
Our first EU project in the brand new Daphne Program of the European Commission: Papatya was the lead organisation.
Two staff members from Papatya visited protection centres in France, Netherlands and Turkey and spoke with colleagues there about our target groups and the possibilities to support and protect them.
Following that, 10 colleagues from abroad attended a five-day seminar in Berlin, inspected the crisis centre Papatya, the Berlin Youth Emergency Service as well as counselling centres and women’s refuges.
In conclusion an expert event was held with over 200 participants, whose conclusions were documented in a brochure.
Partner Organisations:
- Germany: PAPATYA; Berlin
- France: L’Abri Languedocien, Marseille
- Netherlands: Saadet, Rotterdam
- Turkey: Kadinin Insan Haklari Bilgi Belge Merkezi
Further information: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/grants/results/daphne-toolkit/content/protection-against-violence-their-families-young-women-muslim-origin-germany-papatya.en
We proudly present: @online_sibel on Instagram
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Our Instagram account has been online since________ and it provides information on the topics of our online counselling. On that site we provide information about our counselling services, how to contact us and many other infos on the topics of family controls, forced marriage, violence and abduction.
Our New Website goes online!
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We worked on our new website for a long time and finally we are able to present it to you. In the future all our areas of work can be found at http://www.papatya.org. You will find here infos on our crisis centre, our counselling services and all our other projects.
The Renovation of the Girls’ Room is completed
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Thanks to several generous donations, we were able to renovate and refurnish the four girls’ rooms at the crisis centre this year. The girls at the crisis centre and the team from Papatya say THANK YOU!
#Gethelp – against Forced Marriage and Abduction
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On 29.04.2019 PAPATYA started the prevention campaign #Gethelp against forced marriage and abduction. The short film #Gethelp encourages everyone, who is threatened with forced marriage and abduction, to get help in time.
We thank the director Gabriel B Arranhio, the actors, the team from CZAR, the football players from Türkiyemspor Berlin e.V. and the HEROES Berlin for their assistance.
Groove Choir Spring Concert in Support of PAPATYA
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With a joyful mix of pop, soul and jazz the choir offered not only an enjoyable evening for the 150 guests but also “sang” a donation of €1300 in support of the Papatya crisis centre’s work – a double joy! The donation enables the purchase of the essentials that girls and young women need, if they run away from home without anything. In addition, one or another leisure activity can be financed.
And sometimes a young woman needs a return ticket, to get back to Germany, after the alleged “holiday trip” with her parents turns out to be a planned forced marriage,´. In the foyer the employees of Papatya showed the premiere of their short film on the topic of forced marriage and abduction that had just been completed.
