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Top, David Hanes for We Find Wildness, Aware: after the exhibition Frankfurt Freakout by KASPAR MÜLLER, presented at Museum Bellpark, Kriens. Shot on Thursday, December 10, 2015, altered on December 19, 2015. Via. More. Bottom, Klara Kristalova, Pond, 2007, Stoneware, 20 x 45 x 45 cm. Via.

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They [Young German feminists] [ahem] argue that sexual violence is not a migrant phenomenon at all, but a long-standing, societal problem. Young feminists like Anne Wizorek criticize that Schwarzer – along with many others – is using the New Year’s violence to fuel racist sentiment. They also criticize that broad swathes of society are acting as though there wasn’t any sexual violence in Germany before the refugees arrived.

Every year during Oktoberfest, for instance, there are a number of sexual assaults, even rapes. Men grab women inappropriately at clubs across the country. At public viewing sites, where people gather to watch soccer, or Karneval, the boundaries between playful flirting and malicious badgering are quick to blur. Nearly 60 percent of German women say they have been sexually harassed, according to a 2004 study. Sixty percent! It’s impossible that such a staggering number of women were only harassed by men from North Africa.

Maik Baumgärtner, Markus Brauck, Jürgen Dahlkamp, Jörg Diehl, Ullrich Fichtner, Jan Friedmann, Matthias Geyer, Hubert Gude, Horand Knaup, Alexander Kühn, Dialika Neufeld, Ralf Neukirch, Ann-Kathrin Nezik, Miriam Olbrisch, Maximilian Popp, Gordon Repinski, Sven Röbel, Barbara Schmid, Fidelius Schmid, Andreas Ulrich and Antje Windmann, from Chaos and Violence: How New Year’s Eve in Cologne Has Changed Germany, for Der Spiegel, January 2016. Via.

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In the corridor, in the lift, in the canteen. It’s almost here that workers become victims of sexual harassment. It happens in Germany, where according to a recent survey led by the Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes, about 50% declare to have experienced such situations. Sexual abuse is still perceived as a taboo subject. In effect, 81% of the surveyed people do not know that their employers have the obligation of actively protecting them. And another 70% do not know who to turn to for help. Defining sexual abuse is very difficult for workers. To the point that 83% of women and 93% of men have confessed to have some difficulties in establishing precise borders between what is and what is not an abuse. For women, for instance, just an explicit image or a gaze can represent harassment.

Roberta Garofalo, from Germans often don’t recognize workplace abuse, for Welfare Society Territory, 2015. More.