What we do

CLAIM campaigns nationwide against anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia and hostility towards Muslims. We create effective structures for professional exchange and cooperation in Germany and Europe. We support civil society and public administration in further developing the necessary skills. We represent the concerns of civil society and those affected by anti-Muslim racism to political decision-makers. In this way, we form a strong voice against anti-Muslim racism.

We make anti-Muslim racism visible: CLAIM documents anti-Muslim attacks and discrimination. We support organizations in further developing the necessary skills in monitoring and counseling. We empower those affected and provide education.

We create nationwide visibility for anti-Muslim and racist tendencies and their effects through joint campaigns. Every year around July 1—the Day Against Anti-Muslim Racism—we coordinate nationwide weeks of action against anti-Muslim racism.

We provide scientific and practical impetus through publications, conferences, and working groups, thereby putting little-discussed aspects on the agenda.

We see our work as a professional contribution to stability, social cohesion, and democratic resilience.

OUR PROJECTS:

Community-based monitoring

As part of its community-based monitoring, CLAIM systematically and uniformly documents anti-Muslim discrimination and attacks nationwide and works to shed light on unreported cases. In this context, we train counseling and reporting centers to recognize and document anti-Muslim racism. With a stable data basis, those affected can be better protected and supported, and intervention and prevention measures can be developed.

Since 2023, CLAIM has been publishing the cases documented as part of community-based monitoring in an annual civil society report. The report highlights the manifestations, effects, and trends of anti-Muslim racism in Germany. To the English short summary of the 2025 report

Community-based monitoring is funded by the Federal Ministry for Education, Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (BMBFSFJ) as part of the federal program “Demokratie leben!” (Live Democracy!) and by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Homeland (BMI).

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Report! Berlin

Report! Berlin is a civil society monitoring and information center for anti-Muslim racism in Berlin. Our goal is to systematically and uniformly record, document, and evaluate anti-Muslim discrimination and attacks in the state of Berlin. In this way, we make anti-Muslim racism visible in its intersectional manifestations and dimensions. In addition, we train counseling, contact, and reporting centers in Berlin to record anti-Muslim racism and strengthen community structures.

What we offer:

• Training courses for counseling, contact, and reporting centers in Berlin on the topic of “Recognizing and recording anti-Muslim racism.”
• Training courses for multipliers so that they can offer workshops on the topic of “Empowerment and strategies for action against anti-Muslim racism” in their communities.

Report! Berlin is funded by the Senate Department for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity, and Anti-Discrimination as part of the Berlin state program “Democracy. Diversity. Respect. Against right-wing extremism, racism, and anti-Semitism.”

For more information, visit: www.report-amr-berlin.de

Report! Lower Saxony

Since March 2025, the reporting and information center Report! Lower Saxony has been systematically and uniformly documenting anti-Muslim discrimination and attacks in the state of Lower Saxony in order to highlight anti-Muslim racism in its intersectional manifestations and dimensions. In addition, counseling, contact, and reporting centers in Lower Saxony are being trained to recognize anti-Muslim racism and community structures are being strengthened.

What we offer:

• Training courses for counseling, contact, and reporting centers in Lower Saxony on the topic of “recognizing and recording anti-Muslim racism.”
• Training courses for multipliers so that they can offer workshops on empowerment and strategies for action against anti-Muslim racism in their communities

Report! Lower Saxony is a project by CLAIM and is funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior as part of the German Islam Conference.

From victims to activists – strengthening community-based anti-racism and anti-discrimination counseling structures

The joint project aims to empower people who are victims of racist attacks or discrimination. Community-based organizations are often the first point of contact for victims of right-wing, racist, and anti-Semitic violence.

CLAIM helps to expand the scope of action of these organizations by qualifying them as counseling centers against racism. In workshops and online training courses, we teach them how to record and document cases of racist discrimination and violence in an intersectional manner. This closes gaps in counseling, e.g., in rural areas or in eastern German states, and sheds light on the dark field.

We have developed standards for documenting and recording racist discrimination and attacks in collaboration with counseling centers, experts, and the European initiative Facing Facts, and published them as guidelines.

We offer certified online training courses via our e-learning portal. Currently, courses on “Power Relations and Documentation” and “Basics of Recording and Documentation” are available.

In this joint project, we are cooperating with:

• Antidiscrimination Association Germany (advd)
• Association of Counseling Centers for Victims of Right-wing, Racist, and Anti-Semitic Violence (VBRG)
• State Network of Migrant Organizations Saxony-Anhalt (LAMSA)
• Federal Conference of Migrant Organizations (BkMo)
• Federal Association of Networks of Migrant Organizations (NeMo)
• Umbrella Organization of Migrant Organizations in Eastern Germany (DaMOst)
• Turkish Community in Germany (TGD)

The project is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees, and Integration, who is also the Federal Government Commissioner for Anti-Racism.

Cooperation network against racism in the federal program “Demokratie leben!” (Live Democracy!) in the program area “Development of a federal central infrastructure”

Together with EOTO, korientation, RAA Berlin, the Association of Binational Families and Partnerships – Leipzig, zedela, and ZEOK, CLAIM forms a nationwide contact, impulse, and transfer center for dealing with racism. The project, which is funded by the Federal Ministry for Education, Family, Seniors, Women, and Youth (BMBFSFJ) as part of the “Demokratie leben!” funding program, aims to establish a federal central infrastructure in the field of racism. The focus is on network building, anti-racist professionalization, and the promotion of (specialist) knowledge through various measures. CLAIM is the coordinating body of the cooperation network. A dedicated website is currently being created. Further information will be made available there in due course.

Further information on the funding program can be found here.

Recognizing anti-Muslim racism – Acting competently – Empowering those affected: Initial and referral counseling on anti-Muslim racism

The first point of contact for victims of anti-Muslim racism is usually Muslim self-help organizations and migrant organizations. The project “Recognizing anti-Muslim racism – Acting competently – Empowering victims” aims to train these organizations in providing initial and referral counseling for anti-Muslim discrimination and attacks and to strengthen their legal certainty and ability to take action. This should enable them to provide victims with low-threshold initial guidance and assistance and refer them to appropriate reporting and counseling centers in their vicinity.

The project is funded by the Senate Department for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity, and Anti-Discrimination as part of the Participation and Integration Program.

Together against anti-Muslim racism – empowerment, training, and networking for practical application

With the project “Together against anti-Muslim racism – empowerment, training, and networking for practical application,” CLAIM aims to promote discrimination-sensitive action in administration with a focus on anti-Muslim racism and to empower those affected. In cooperation with the administration, community-based multipliers, and counseling centers, we offer information and training formats and create networking spaces.

What we offer:

• Empowerment and information: Awareness-raising and information measures for those affected to educate them about forms of discrimination and show them strategies for action. Community-based multipliers are particularly involved in this process in order to facilitate access to counseling and reporting structures for those affected. The measures are accompanied by the information campaign “My case counts!”
• Awareness raising and training: Development and implementation of diversity-sensitive training modules for administrative and public authority employees. The aim is to raise awareness of anti-Muslim racism and promote decision-making skills.
• Networking and knowledge exchange: Promotion of practice-oriented exchange between civil society advisory structures, community-based multipliers, and state institutions. This is intended to create sustainable structures for dealing with anti-Muslim racism.

The project is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees, and Integration and the Federal Government Commissioner for Anti-Racism.

Action weeks against anti-Muslim racism

Anti-Muslim racism poses a major threat to our society, democracy as a whole, and the fundamental values that underpin it. CLAIM draws attention to this issue every year during its action weeks against anti-Muslim racism around July 1, the Day Against Anti-Muslim Racism. We use the action weeks and the day to raise awareness of this issue. Would your organization like to participate? Contact us at info@claim-allianz.de

For more information, visit: www.allianzgegenhass.de

Competence Network on Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hatred

The Competence Network on Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hatred was funded from 2020 to 2024 as part of the “Demokratie leben!” (Live Democracy!) program of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth. The aim of the network was to pool expertise on Islamophobia, anti-Muslim hostility, and anti-Muslim racism and make this expertise available to education, politics, administration, and civil society.

The Competence Network consisted of four nationwide organizations: CLAIM, the Working Group of Protestant Youth in Germany (aej), the Association of Binational Families and Partnerships, and ZEOK.

For more information, visit: kompetenznetzwerk-imf.de

I Report

In cooperation with the Documentation and Advisory Center on Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Racism in Austria and Paris Lodron University Salzburg, CLAIM worked to better record and highlight the number of anti-Muslim attacks and discrimination: through uniform data collection on anti-Muslim attacks and discrimination and improved reporting options for those affected.

I-Report was funded in the period 2020-2021 by the European Union under the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Program (2014-2020) and the Mercator Foundation.

For more information, visit: www.i-report.eu