“Good evening everyone. This is a report from Michendorf.” – Lager Reports, April 2022

The latest lager reports - audio reports on the situation with coronavirus and other topics from women living in refugee accommodation centres in and around Berlin - with transcription in English and translation into German.


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Meetings for third country national women from Ukraine at Frieda Frauenzentrum

We are collaborating with the Frieda Frauenzentrum (Women’s Center) in Friedrichshain: We offer a safe space for women of third country nationalities fleeing the war in Ukraine. A space for women to get advice, exchange experiences, meet and chill. We provide psychosocial counselling, help with paperwork, hot meals, a kitchen for those who want to cook their own food, play area for children and various social activities.


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Zwischen Unterkunftsuche und Lobbyarbeit

In Berlin kämpft ein Netzwerk von BPoC-Organistionen für die Gleichbehandlung von rassifizierten Geflüchteten aus der Ukraine


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Our BREAK ISOLATION GROUP three years on

WATCH THE VIDEO. We are developing a series of workshops and initiatives as a way to make clear that we condemn any form of oppression, violence, discrimination or intimidation as we fight and defend our rights amidst rigid and oppressive asylum structures, processes and systems.


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Re/Assembling Anti-­Racist Struggles – A New Open Archive at FHXB Museum

Together with many people from East, West and reunified Germany, the FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum has been working for some time to tell the stories of the struggles against racism and anti­-Semitism. Together, new ways of collecting, processing and presenting are being sought


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Call for accommodation for BiPoC refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine

Since the beginning of the attack on Ukraine, IWS has been working to support Black women and Women of Color who are arriving from the Ukraine. Now, we have teamed up with EOTO, ISD and Migrationsrat to collaboratively support any BlPoC refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.

We need your help!
Can host BIPoC arriving from Ukraine – either short or long term?


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IWS @ Sound of peace

Fact is Europeans think differently of ukraine refugees
Many say and I quote: “Look, Ukrainians are like us,
they have blonde hair, blue eyes, they drive the same car as we do,
they are educated.” And that is why we have been seeing
Racism at the borders!


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