Third-Party Counseling and Support Services for People Experiencing Discrimination

Racism, Right-Wing Extremism, Anti-Semitism

• Back Up NRW – Advisory services for victims of right-wing extremist and racist violence
• Opferberatung Rheinland // Counselling and support for victims of right-wing extremist and racist violence
• Anti-racism hotline // Essen
• Mobile advisory service against right-wing extremism in NRW
• Medizinische Flüchtlingshilfe e.V. // Bochum (for refugees experiencing trauma/without documents)
• Ofek e.V. //Advisory centre for anti-Semitic violence and discrimination
• Office for reporting anti-Semitism
• Office for reporting anti-Romani discrimination in NRW (racism against Roma and Sinti people)
• Wohindo Dortmund // Housing search service for refugees

Online Violence

• Hateaid // Advisory centre for victims of online violence

Disability and Chronic Illness

• Suse hilft // Project of the federal association of women‘s advice centers and women’s helplines for the empowerment of women and girls with disabilities
• Mädchen sicher inklusiv (for young women with disabilities)
• Queer Handicap e.V. // Club for LSBTIQ+ people with disabilities

Gender, Family

• Department for Equality, Family and Inclusion of the City of Bochum

LGBTIQ+

• Rosa Strippe e.V.
• Rubicon Köln // Advisory services for LGBTIQ+ people
• Queermed (directory of queer-friendly doctors and doctors sensitive to queer issues)
• Queer Handicap e.V. // Club for LSBTIQ+ people with disabilities

Sexual Violence, Domestic Violence, Stalking

• Wildwasser Bochum
• Nora e.V. // Counselling for women and girls in Bochum
• Victim protection & police crime prevention (violence against girls and women and stalking)
• NO STALK app (by Weisser Ring)
• Weisser Ring e.V. // Bochum branch (Sexual violence, domestic violence and stalking)
• Weisser Ring e.V. // Violence against men
• man-o-mann // Counseling for men (Violence against men)
• Dickstinction (website for reporting dick pics)

Discrimination in General

• ARIC-NRW