From Thursday to Saturday we are celebrating our first birthday at Oona (Weserstr 166, 12045 Berlin) and live on Refuge Worldwide.

Every six months we choose an inspiring non-profit organisation to be our partners and receive 50% of the funds generated through the Refuge Worldwide Patreon.

The biggest celebration on German election night, 26 September, may not have been at the headquarters of any of the victorious political parties.

We interviewed Guggenheim Fellow and University of Hawai'i professor Reece Jones, a vocal commentator on how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nations have been subscribing to colonialist practices.

Locals are stepping up to help refugees trapped in the Bialowieza Forest National Park.

Say goodbye to 2021 with us.

It's been almost a year since we launched our community radio platform, Refuge Worldwide, and we want to know how our listeners think it's going.

At their new aequa headquarters, based in Wedding, Sarj co-creates spaces for mutual support and solidarity.

Next Thursday we are hosting our end of year party at Oona. Refuge residents, associated labels and other Berlin collectives have kindly donated records and merch for a big end of year record fair in aid of Radio Zaatari, open from noon-midnight.

We have been featured in end of year roundups by Electronic Beats and shesaid.so.

How did aid workers Seán Binder and Sarah Mardini become casualties of Greece's geopolitical migration crisis?

On December 7th, Big Dada land on Refuge Worldwide for a six-hour takeover, featuring interviews and mixes from some of the label's artists.

On Friday December 3rd, Refuge Worldwide will take over OXI, the newly refurbished Friedrichshain venue, for a party in support of Radio Zaatari in Jordan.

Founded in October 2019 with the aim of bridging the gap between the dance music community and mental health, eott encourages us to check in with our friends and opens up broader discussions around mental health.

FREI[T]RÄUME is a multi-disciplinary event incorporating music, discussion and art, taking place on Saturday, November 27 at Oyoun cultural center in Neukölln.       

For the 26th edition of COP, the annual UN Climate Change Conference, world leaders and the founders of many influential companies have paraded empty pledges to combat climate change in Glasgow, Scotland.

Black Artist Database (B.A.D.) has launched a new platform, Black Creative Database, expanding its reach beyond artists to workers in the creative field.

BLiM released a survey revealing the lived experiences of Black music creators and industry professionals, covering issues including gender and ethnic pay gaps and mental health.

On Tuesday, 2nd November, Kampala-based festival, label and creative platform Nyege Nyege brought electronic sounds from across sub-Saharan Africa directly to Refuge Worldwide.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is under fire after his border forces were found to be orchestrating ongoing and vicious pushbacks along the border with Belarus. 

This Wednesday evening we welcome the Love On The Rocks crew to Weserstraße 166 to celebrate their latest EP release. 

Pollination has recently launched a phased campaign titled Open Culture: No Borders in collaboration with an assortment of artists, producers, DJs, designers, and writers.

The first episode of State(s) Capture(d), which features Julie Nxadi, will air on Wednesday at 15:00 CET.

We are taking over both floors of the cosy Neukölln venue Arkaoda.

From 17:00-22:00 this evening, artists and activists will explore the dance music industry's potential within the sustainability movement.

Nine participants will broadcast the work they made over the course of seven weeks in conjunction with Open Music Lab.

Refuge Worldwide is one of 40 awardees selected to celebrate Berlin’s club culture by an independent panel of judges, appointed by the Clubcommission.

Taking place at the Refuge Worldwide radio studio and Oona bar on Weserstraße in Berlin Neukölln, join us for a series of free to attend DJ sets, workshops, panel discussions, comedy and live performance across the weekend of Friday 24th September - Sunday 26th September.

The event kicks off this Thursday, September 16, and runs through September 25 as a hybrid on- and offline festival.

At the end of this month, we’ll host two courses designed to teach beginners how to work with Ableton and prepare audio ready for broadcast.

Eight months into the Refuge Worldwide journey, we are excited to announce a new wave of station residents.

The streets of Berlin are flooded by branded delivery riders bringing food orders to people across the city—but Khora Collective is doing things differently.

Hundreds of people marched on Sunday to support those fleeing the country's political crisis.

The bass music crew has announced that it will teach courses on DJing, performance, track management, and more between September and February.

World leaders are facing criticism for complacency in the wake of the International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) August report on the climate crisis.

Come by our space in Neukölln to help us officially celebrate the launch of our studio this Saturday, August 21.

We are looking for an editorial intern to join the team from 1st September.

The adoption of a new draft law would make many corporate executives and political leaders criminally liable for environmental destruction.

After 7 months of beaming music and discussion to you over the internet, it’s time to do it IRL again.

Over the next 12 months, Refuge Worldwide’s studio and community space in Neukölln, Berlin will host a series of DJ workshops with Resident Advisor.

On Saturday, 31st July, we are heading to London to host a tent for our friends at GALA Festival.

The United Kingdom is set to introduce tougher sentences for “illegal entry” and grant authorities powers to intercept small boats of migrants and asylum-seekers.

Founded by friends living in Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Amman, the online radio station was created in March 2020 to connect people living across the Middle East and North Africa.

On July 19, the Berlin NGO will continue a series of protests called #abschiedefrei directed at the airlines responsible for deporting refugees.

Regular DJs from Pawnshop will share the sounds of Taiwanese nightlife across six hours of programming on Refuge Worldwide. 

Video footage released on Monday shows hundreds of anti-LGBTQ+ activists scaling the wall of the Tbilisi Pride office to dismantle and tear up rainbow flags. 

On July 7th, Carhartt WIP will release a reissued version of the 2018 book One Week With 1UP, with all proceeds from sales going to Refuge Worldwide.

A Cambodian judge has sent three young activists to a prison in Phnom Penh for conspiracy and “insulting the king”.

Refuge Worldwide is putting half of the proceeds accrued through our Patreon towards supporting the community station Radio Zaatari.

Black Lives Matter Berlin will be hosting a protest this Friday, July 2 leaving from Pariser Platz/Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate) at 15:30.

Refuge Worldwide is excited to announce a special pre-opening event at our community space this Friday and Saturday, June 25 and 26.

Mina, a flag-bearer for progressive counter-cultural resistance in Portugal, is expanding into a multidisciplinary space for musical and artistic communion.

Expats in the Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen campaign are calling for immediate action to control housing prices.

America’s billionaires pay little, or sometimes even nothing, in income tax, a new investigation by the outlet ProPublica has revealed.

To mark World Oceans Day 2021, June 8th, we have partnered with Concentric Records to curate a day of broadcasts based on the Ocean Archive of TBA21–Academy.

While training to become a therapist, New York native Kemoy Jemmott realized that she was one of two queer people—and the only Black person—in her graduating class.

Laura BCR—a French DJ and the founder of On Board Music—is releasing her third compilation to support refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea.

The United Nations refugee agency is calling on U.S. president Joe Biden to lift restrictions on asylum-seekers put in place by former president Donald Trump in March 2020.

DJ Nobu, Steve Bicknell, and DJ Rush are among dozens of artists contributing tracks to the compilation 100 Years Of Colombia to be released on June 3. The income from the 99-track album will be donated to charity organizations across Colombia.

The past two weeks have seen surging violence in Israel and Palestine, with a series of events coinciding to spark the worst conflict the region has seen in years.

Protests in Colombia are entering their third straight week following right-wing President Iván Duque’s decision to introduce a regressive financial proposal on April 28.

Ten resident artists from foundation.fm and Refuge Worldwide radio will broadcast across both platforms this Friday. The link-up comes as part of foundation.fm's Friday Takeover series.

The European Union is looking to strengthen the authority of its privately-owned border agency, Frontex, despite accusations of brutal treatment toward migrants.

Christiana Bukalo first understood she was stateless at the age of 18.

On the first Friday of every month since March of 2020, Bandcamp have waived their revenue share to help support artists and labels.

Organizations and nonprofits worldwide are urging people to take action as India struggles to contain a surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths.

To mark the May Day demonstrations in Berlin this year, 3’Hi and Refuge Worldwide are hosting a day of DJ sets in support of Kreuzberger Himmel, a Berlin-based restaurant run by refugees that produces high-quality meals for Berlin’s homeless community.

Refuge Worldwide and the Berlin-based production school Open Music Lab (OML) will team up to offer a series of radio production and DJ workshops throughout 2021 and 2022. 

Weather-related events triggered an average of 21.5 million new displacements each year over the past decade, according to a new data visualization from The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). 

Hot Concept have released a six-track various artist EP, ‘Hot Compilation’, with all proceeds being donated to habibi.works.

We have just received the wonderful opportunity to take over a fantastic new space in Neukölln, where we can build a real studio for the community. 

We proudly present a live broadcast in collaboration with female:pressure this International Women’s Day, 8th March.

Open Music Lab have announced a new online beginners‘ course for music production.

This week marks the one year anniversary of the Hanau killings.

Refuge Worldwide are happy to announce we are supporting the Queer Black Therapy Fund, donating a share of the revenue from our Patreon account between the dates of January 1st and June 30th 2021.

Choose Love and the Guardian are reporting that victims of trafficking, modern slavery and torture are facing prison-like conditions in the UK.

Refuge, the Berlin-based fundraising series, have launched a new community radio platform this month: Refuge Worldwide, a home for music, conversation, and a blog. 

In 2020 the opening of a vital space in Berlin, the aequa Community Centre, was devastated by COVID.

Here you can find a list of the non-profit organisations that Refuge Worldwide has supported over the last five years.

Stuttgart based migrant rights association Refugees4Refugees have brought attention to the forced removal of Nigerians by the German government.

Spotify's end of year 'Wrapped' campaign has highlighted a growing discontent amongst many musicians and music fans, aimed at the streaming giant's unfair payment system.

Berlin label Raiders have released 'Astral Booty', the concluding half of their Queens of Club project.

The UK Home Office plans to deport 50 Black Britons on a flight to Jamaica this week.

The Scottish Parliament has voted to pass a motion that will make period products available to anyone who needs them, the first country to introduce such a measure.

Women in Exile have organised two rally on Wednesday 25th November.

A report by the Associated Press has found that dozens of women have alleged violent and sexual abuse while working on Indonesia and Malaysia palm oil plantations.

Refuge regular Nathan Micay has scored the soundtrack for HBO series Industry. The series is getting big reviews across the board and an OST will be released on LuckyMe next month.