The Crucial Questions Journalists Must Ask While Covering the Refugee Crisis
“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...
View ArticleWhere are they now? Photographer launches project to track 500 migrants from...
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...
View ArticleGhost Boat: A must-follow investigative series on the mysterious...
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...
View ArticleThese migrants filmed themselves along their harrowing journey from Sub...
The danger and often deadly exhaustion of a migrant’s journey is difficult to convey to the rest of the world. In 2010, filmmaker Luca Cusani took a creative approach by curating videos he found on the...
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The 19 Million Project Team Visits Rome’s Baobab Refugee Center
The Baobab center in Tiburtina, Rome is the first stop for thousands of African refugees seeking a new life in Europe. At the center, they receive urgent medical care, a dormitory bed, new clothes and...
View ArticleAs journalists flee Syria, a fearless band of women bloggers is documenting...
What happens in a country so violent, unstable and repressive that even hardened war correspondents leave? That’s the situation Syrian journalist Zaina Erhaim faced when she returned to Aleppo two...
View ArticleAn Innovative Data Journalism Project Tracks How Many People Have Died...
For anyone trying to make sense of the refugee crisis, numbers are crucial. Tracking the people who lose their lives on the path to asylum is one way for us to understand the scale of the crisis — and...
View ArticleImmersive Journalism: A Brazilian reporter walked with a Syrian family across...
Many journalists covering the refugee crisis this year put the pieces together from a distance. If they’re on the ground in Europe, they drop in, talk to people for a bit, and move on quickly. Leticia...
View ArticleOur Partners in Cairo: An Independent Media Company Joins The 19 Million...
The 19 Million Project has a satellite team operating in Egypt through Welad ElBalad Media. In the piece below, Fatemah Farag, founder and CEO, describes their work. Egypt is often seen by the West as...
View ArticleThe 19 Million Project Lands On Vatican Radio
Since the early days of his Papacy, Pope Francis has made spreading compassion for refugees and migrants a key priority. This September, as Europe’s refugee crisis spiraled, he announced the Vatican...
View ArticleMexico is America’s Very Own Mediterranean Sea — A Cemetery Without Tombstones
Today, Fusion’s Mexico reporter Rafa Fernandez spoke at The 19 Million Project about the similarities between the refugee crisis in Europe—and the migration flows from Central America to the U.S. Rafa...
View ArticleFusion and Univision Honor Three Journalism Projects Addressing the Refugee...
Fusion and Univision Honor Three Journalism Projects Addressing the Refugee Crisis with Media Innovation Awards A pop-up architectural installation that will house innovative news displays about the...
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How Might We Use Human Centered Design for Media Innovation
Talking about the crisis “media is facing” is a topic that has been making headlines for quite some time now. Media talking about media… where often we see journalists themselves feeling they are the...
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Check Out the Final Projects! 19 Million Project Hackathon Launches 13...
This November, nearly 150 journalists, designers, developers, academics, government and human rights leaders from 25 countries gathered in Rome to address one of the planet’s most complex human rights...
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Migrant South-North Solidarity: Caravane Migranti
by Gabriela Brenes and Luisa Ortiz Break the silence and indifference, get in the game now, before it is too late. Vera Vigevani Jarach, Madre de Plaza de Mayo The Second Carovane Migranti -Migrant...
View ArticlePhotos: Life Unfolds in Seven Refugee Camps
From the miraculous to the mundane, this curated stream of Instagram posts offers a rare glimpse inside the biggest temporary settlements in the world. .story h3 {margin-top:70px; font-size:1.4em;...
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Kakuma: Rebooting empathy through a gamified voyage
by Gabriela Brenes http://blog.kakumagame.com “We fail at understanding that some people may want more than surviving another day. […] Because it’s not us.”, writes Bruno Rodríguez on the Dev. Journal...
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What war does to the lives of children…
by Luisa Ortiz Rita, age 8, from Aleppo, is a Syrian refugee child at a the Friendship Syrian school. David Gross, award-winning Bay Area photographer and educator has worked since 1999 in war zones....
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The 19 Million Project won a honorable mention at Cynopsis Awards
The 19 Million Project won a honorable mention as a Cultural Awareness Campaign or Initiative from Cynopsis. The Cynopsis’ second annual Social Good Awards Breakfast took place in New York City last...
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Hello, Guten Tag! Welcome to the Refugee Radio Network
by Belén Arce Terceros (@beluarce) “Hello, Guten Tag! Welcome to the Refugee Radio Network (RRN). For refugees from refugees,” greets the host of Refugee Voices, one of the shows of this particular...
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