“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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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 [...]
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