“We need to humanize the refugee crisis,” UK-based migration specialist Nando Sigona told the 19 Million Project audience in Rome during a Skype interview on Wednesday. Sigona, senior lecturer in migration and citizenship at the University of Birmingham in England, challenged journalists to look at the stories behind the stats, rather than treating people as [...]

Photography Jonathan Seitz

The vast majority of refugees don’t live in camps. That’s the message Sonia Ben Ali, Executive Director and co-founder of Urban Refugees, hammered home during her talk Tuesday morning at The 19 Million Project in Rome. "We founded this organization because most refugees are living in cities in developed countries," said Ben Ali whose organization [...]

You made it. Welcome! The 19 Million Project officially kicks off this morning at Luisse EnLabs, an incubator space for startups. What brings us here today is our shared concern over the future of more than 19 million refugees that have fled war, conflict and persecution in the past year, creating the largest wave of human [...]

There are now more than 60 million refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced persons in the world — and the number is rising. The main culprit? Forced migration from places people have come to know as home. It is impossible to imagine their experiences, but it is important to empathise. Next week, dozens of journalists, developers, advocates and [...]