„Die stille Gewalt - Wie der Staat Frauen alleinlässt“ – mit der Autorin Asha Hedayati

In the organizer's words:

Why do the police, family courts and youth welfare offices fail to protect women from domestic violence - and how can this change?

To conclude our series of events on the International Day against Violence against Women , Asha Hedayati, author and lawyer for family law, will read from her book "Silent Violence - How the State Leaves Women Alone" and then invite the audience to discuss one of the most pressing problems of our time.

Every fourth woman is affected by violence in her partnership at some point in her life. At the same time, Asha Hedayati experiences time and again in her work as a lawyer that state structures not only fail to adequately protect women affected by violence, but are themselves part of a violent system. In her book, she describes in concrete terms what needs to change in order for the responsible institutions to really provide the protection they should.

Mareice Kaiser, journalist and author, will moderate the evening.

Further information:

Trigger warning: The reading will deal with topics that can be emotionally stressful and can have a retraumatizing effect, especially for those affected.

The reading is being held in cooperation with the project StoP - Neighborhoods without Partner Violence Kreuzberg.

As a family law lawyer,Asha Hedayati focuses on representing women affected by violence in separation, divorce and violence protection proceedings. As a panelist and speaker, she speaks publicly on the topics of domestic violence and violence against women. The aim of her work is to make injustices and disadvantages of marginalized groups visible and to highlight the structural problems of violence against women.