A boat loaded with at least 243 migrants was supposed to disembark from Libya and land in Italy last summer. Instead, it mysteriously vanished, leaving little trace of what happened to the dozens of migrants on board. Now, a team of journalists, led by Tunisia-based investigative reporter Eric Reidy, is determined to crack the unsolved […]
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Photographer Massimo Sestini's stunning image of a small boat jam-packed with asylum seekers off the coast of Libya showed the world just how terrifying a refugee's journey can be. The image, which won a World Press Photo Award and resonated worldwide, depicts 500 refugees risking their lives in order to find a new home. The [...]
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“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 [...]
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Our friends at News Deeply just told us about this amazing job opening. We wanted to share it with all of you. The official posting is here and copied below. News Deeply – the company that’s been called “the future of news” – is hiring Managing Editors for three new platforms: Refugees Deeply, Myanmar Deeply, and Human [...]
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Photography Jonathan Seitz
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“We are living in an age of mass migration,” two-time Pulitzer winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek told the 19 Million Project audience during a Skype interview with Fusion’s Laura Wides-Muñoz on Tuesday. Salopek is currently crossing the Republic of Georgia on foot and headed for China in what will become a 21,000-mile, [...]
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This incredibly cool interactive came to us via Lucify, a data and communications firm in Finland. It uses data from UNHRC, the UN's Refugee Agency. Check it out. lucifyEmbed("lucify-41-ECiWGg", "http://www.lucify.com/embed/the-flow-towards-europe/")
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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