What happens when life ends at Europe’s borders? How are these people’s lives marked? How can their families honor them? How do governments recognize their existence and their fundamental rights as human beings? More than 29,000 people have died on European migration routes in the last decade, most of whose names remain unknown.
Here is an explainer on the award-winning cross-border investigation #BorderGraves by our own Gabriela Ramírez, who is one of the journalists part of the Border Graves Investigation team collaborating to uncover this disturbing reality across Europe.
Dive deep into this investigation on our website, where Unbias The News published five deeply human-centered stories for each region covered. Visit: unbiasthenews.org/bordergraves
The Border Graves Team:
Tina Xu Danai Maragoudaki Daphne Tolis Leah Pattem Eoghan Gilmartin Gabriele Cruciata Barbara Matejcic and Gabriela Ramírez
In collaboration with reporters from The Guardian and Süddeutsche Zeitung
Unbias The News Team: Christina Lee (Editor in Chief) Gabriela Ramírez (Multimedia Editor) and antoine bouraly (Illustrator)
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#migration #journalism #europe #bordergraves #migrants #europe #refugees #asylumseekers #eu #elections
We are happy to announce the release of a new interactive VR piece, as part of The Border Graves Investigation 🌍
Collaborating with @outrid3rs we document Europe’s border graves in VR, offering a powerful and immersive journey into this critical issue.
At a time when hundreds of people across Europe and the world are affected by border policies, it is crucial for us to explore different storytelling methods to convey these important stories. Through innovative VR technology, we aim to shed light on the often-overlooked narratives at the edges of Europe, bringing them to life in a way that fosters empathy and understanding.
Have a look and dive into the places our reporters walked through to tell the stories of these people and their families. 👇
🔗 https://lnkd.in/d5RWacfG
In collaboration with:
The Border Graves Investigation Team:
Tina Xu (Project Manager - VR video)
Reporters:
Gabriela Ramírez (Poland-Lithuania)
Barbara Matejcic (Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia)
Danai Maragoudaki (Greece)
Daphne Tolis (Greece)
Eoghan Gilmartin(Spain)
Gabriele Cruciata (Italy)
Additional reporters from @guardian and @sz
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Thanks to @ejcfoundation @journalismfund (EJC), @globalfreemedia_ipi European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), and #IJ4EU for funding the #BorderGraves investigation.
Additional support by Limelight Foundation
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#journalism #migration #humanrights #datajournalism #migrationjournalism #europe #migrants #VR #BorderGraves #Investigation
This was a great summary by @bigtechthisweek on what it was one of our panels at this year’s @journalismfest on The Rise of News Influencers 📰🚨
While traditional news outlets are losing trust, news influencers are gaining credibility. Why is that? Asked our co-managing director @abangmercy on this engaging discussion with Tik Tok journalists @enriqueanartelazo and @johannarudiger moderated by @fatuogwuche
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Remember all sessions are available to watch on the journalism festival YouTube Channel ✨
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#media #influencers #journalism #tiktok #instagram #ijf23 #politics #genz #youngaudiences
Lagos, Nigeria is positioned to become West Africa’s economic hub for the 21st century. But boundless economic and physical growth at the expense of protective wetlands puts the entire city at risk of climate disaster.
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40% of Lagos is covered by water bodies and wetlands. However, these are at risk due to urban development. Structures are being built where wetlands should be.
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In the #SinkingCities project we highlight some of the problems and potential solutions.
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Article by: @opeadetayo
Video: @theprincelyx
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#Lagos #Nigeria #ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise #Journalism #Climate #SolutionsJournalism
Payman Sediqi prays at the grave of his cousin, Sehid Semiullah Feridullaha Arat. Sehid drowned in the Sava River between Bosnia and Croatia after Croatian officers shot at and punctured his boat.
Locating his cousin first in a Christian cemetery with only initials on his headstone, Payman returned to move his cousin into a Muslim cemetery, and with the help of the Bosnian Muslim community, place a stone obelisk and conduct funeral rites in Prijedor, #Bosnia.
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Read The #BorderGraves Investigation:
A cross-border team confirmed 1,015 unmarked graves of migrants in 65 cemeteries buried over the last 10 years across Spain, Italy, Greece, Malta, Poland, Lithuania, France, and Croatia. We visited over half of them. Team: Tina Xu, Gabriela Ramirez, Barbara Matejčić, Gabriele Cruciata, Eoghan Gilmartin, Danai Maragoudaki, Leah Pattem and Daphne Tolis.
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Video: The Border Graves Team
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#BorderGraves #Journalism #Migration #Europe #EU #Migrants #HumanRights #Croatia #Balkans #Crossborder #Collaboration
Join @opeadetayo in this exclusive Behind the Scenes interview for the award-winning Singing City Project 🌍 honored with the Climate Journalism Award by @ejcfoundation. 🏆 #SingingCityProject #ClimateChampions #BehindTheScenes”
🎵🌍 Ustad Noor Bakhsh and Doshambay, musicians from Pakistan, embarked on their first European tour, bringing the unique sounds of Balochi music to 25 cities across 10 countries. Their instruments, the benju and damboora, are essential in Balochi music and have a rich cultural history. Despite visa challenges and bureaucratic hurdles, their journey from Pakistan to Europe has been a remarkable musical adventure. Their performances has brought people together, transcending cultural boundaries through the power of music.
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Read our latest story written by @zahrasalah0_0
Video by Gabriela Ramirez with footage by @zahrasalah0_0
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#Balochi #Benju #Pakistan #Music #Europe #Culture #Damboora #UnbiasTheNews
Should poor countries receive the trash produced in rich countries? 🚮 ♻️ 🤑
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Our latest articles from the “Chain Reactions” series focus on how some countries are working to recycle mass amounts of waste produced mostly in rich countries, but are these sustainable solutions to the plastic flood, waste management or the practice of exporting waste to poor countries? ♻️
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What do you think?
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#wastefree #wastemanagement #recycle #plastic #trash #decolonizemedia #newsroom #unbiasthenews #climate #chainreactions #plasticfree #plasticpollution #reducewaste #diversity #inclusion #globalsouth #media #journalists #cleanoceans
Solutions to Sinking Cities
Sea-level rise is one of the greatest threats resulting from global warming – and one of the most important climate justice stories to cover in climate today. We are partnering with Solutions Journalism Network for a discussion on the impact of sea-level rise, the problem and solutions.
Join us Wednesday, September 21 at 10am EDT / 3pm WAT / 4pm CEST. Our guests will be freelance journalist Ope Adetayo, reporting from Lagos, Nigeria; Kristi Coale, reporting from San Francisco, California, and Karen Florini of Climate Central, who will share insights on how to use sea-level data to tell richer stories.
The conversation will be moderated by Fara Warner, Solutions Journalism Network’s climate director and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions as we explore the solutions to sinking cities.
"We are all told about job opportunities and how this is all done in our favor, but at the end of the day, you are left struggling, and the people who came really just take and go, and with what they take along is valuable not just in terms of the stories that are being told, but also in terms of what they can do with it. You know, they can build their whole careers around a story that you helped bring together. I don't know... It's just a weird way to do journalism... and one is so used to it from mainstream media." said @sankofamagik in our recent #BehindTheScenes session about our article: Mining for stories in Africa: when journalism becomes an extractive industry.
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Have you dealt with exploitative practices from Western media? In our conversation on Twitter Spaces, more than 700 journalist joined from around the world. Some of them used the space to share their experiences with us.
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Listen to the full conversation or read the article.
https://anchor.fm/unbias/episodes/Mining-for-stories-in-Africa-when-journalism-becomes-an-extractive-industry-e1m9q5m
https://unbiasthenews.org/journalism-as-extractive-industry-africa/
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#media #journalism #unbiasthenews #diversity #colonialism #decolonizeyourmind #decolonize #africa #journalists #fixers #freelance #mainstreammedia
Imagine you are escaping from violence, war, political persecution… You spend all your resources on finding ways to escape, and when you finally make it, the country where you have just arrived considers you a “criminal” and puts you in a prison for over a year?
This is the situation of over 4.000 people who came to Lithuania in 2021 through the Belarus border. Most of them below 30 years old from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and multiple African countries.
This is the situation of over 4.000 people who came to Lithuania in 2021 through the Belarus border. Most of them are below 30 years old from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and multiple African countries. r art. This is their story, and you can meet them in our piece “Detained Davincis"
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Read here: https://unbiasthenews.org/detained-davincis-artists-asylum-seekers-lithuania/
Written by Gabriela Ramirez
#Lithuania #asylum #refugees #camps #iraq #africa #middleeast #syria
Detained Davincis: Artists in Lithuania draw attention to the plight of asylum-seekers
Daniel Español, as he likes to call himself, continues. His last name is an indication of his Spanish skills. In Iraq, he used to work as a translator for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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Daniel now spends hours drawing incredibly realistic pencil portraits. Steve Jobs, Pope John Paul II, and Dalia Grybauskaitė, the former President of Lithuania, are some of the familiar faces I can recognize as he shows me some photos of his work saved on his phone. But he doesn't only draw famous personalities; for Daniel, his art is also a way of loving those who are far away while he is detained in Kybartai.
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Kybartai Foreigners Registration Center is a former prison the Lithuanian government converted into a “Foreigner Center” to accommodate thousands of migrants. However, the only change made was the name. It still looks and feels like a prison with barred windows, a high perimeter wall, and a small square with a single tree in the middle where its inhabitants can look at the sky.
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In May 2021, several thousand people crossed from Belarus into Lithuania, seeking asylum in the European Union. One year later, most remain in detention, unable to make their case to authorities. But some have found a way to connect to the outside through their art.
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Read our latest story and find more about how a civil society organization connected with artists caught up in Lithuania's unlawful immigrant detention policy.
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#Lithuania #asylum #Europe #refugees #Eu #belarus #Cameroon #UnbiasTheNews
Did you hear? Our feminist, remote, cross-border newsroom is turning 1 year old. Our team can't wait to celebrate with all of you, who have supported along this ride.
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Join us to sing #HappyBirthday with us as we celebrate the many years to come creating diverse and inclusive, quality journalism.
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See you online. Register for our Zoom party here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unbias-the-news-anniversary-party-tickets-377749788787
It’s almost our birthday and we can’t be more excited thinking about the amazing ride that this year has been since we launched our feminist cross-border newsroom. 💜
We are celebrating by organizing a Zoom party for our readers, authors, illustrators, and everyone who has been part of our amazing community and has supported our work throughout this first year from all around the world.
Register now to join us via Zoom on the 14th of July at 20:00CET to celebrate with our team the many more years to come. We can't wait to see you there.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unbias-the-news-anniversary-party-tickets-377749788787
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#UnbiasTheNews #BirthdayParty #Anniversary #Team #Journalism #Media #Diversity #Inclusion #Zoom #Eent
The sun is not out today. The sun has not been out for days on Eagle Island. Surrounded by black water and dark skies, Eagle Island in the south of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, sometimes looks like the middle-class estate that it was designed to be; other times, it looks like the dreadful beginning of a film noir.
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The day is April 1, 2022, and the purpose of visiting the edge of this community that is below sea level at a negative 0.4 metre is to test the air that has become so dark, that it prevents the sun from shining.\
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Find more in our story: https://unbiasthenews.org/nigeria-soot-illegal-oil-refining/
Originally published in HumAngle Media
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#UnbiasTheNews #Nigeria #Environment #Journalism
According to Plan International, 58% of girls worldwide have faced online harassment. How are governments responding to #onlineviolence against women? Check out this case study from #NorthMacedonia on a Telegram group that harassed hundreds by Elenagalkovska https://unbiasthenews.org/macedonia-sexual-harassment-telegram/
What does war mean to the environment? On this explainer video we show you how the undercovered aspect of wars destroys the landscape of countries, causing ongoing pain to the ecosystem and its inhabitants. ☠️ 💣🌎🌳
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From uprooting trees and destroying irrigation systems to polluting the soil with heavy metals from weapons. The First World War can teach us what armed conflict does to our land and how, after years, can still impact us. 💣
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🌍 ☠️ Syria’s Poisoned Earth in collaboration with @RozanaFM
Find the story at unbiasthenews.org Link in our bio 🔗
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#war #environment #climatechange #journalism #unbiasthenews #syria #ukraine #russia
Journalists and human rights defenders have long struggled to document violations in Kashmir. With a new pattern of arrests, intimidation and erasure of news archives after India’s revocation of the region’s special status, their work has become more difficult than ever. 🎥🌍⛓
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Find out more about press censorship and intimidation in Kashmir at https://unbiasthenews.org/kashmir-media-censorship-intimidation/
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The World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ranks media in 180 countries every year. 🌍
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Where does your country lie on the index this year? 🎥🌍
#WorldPressFreedomDay #Journalism #Press #Journalists #PressFreedom #UnbiasTheNews #Censorship #India #Kashmir #PressIndex
“It is painful and heart-breaking watching a child become a mother. Children should be children, not birthing other children. Because I could not afford to buy her a phone or a laptop, he took advantage of that!”, says 64-year-old Nosipo Murweri whose 13-year-old granddaughter Mbali* was reportedly raped and impregnated by a 32-year-old man from their neighborhood.
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Mbali is just one of the 750,000 children who dropped out of school in South Africa between January 2020 and May 2021 due to learning disruptions caused by the Covid 19 pandemic.
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School lockdowns were designed to prevent the spread of Covid-19, but in some cases they exacerbated inequality and gender-based abuse. Now, South Africa must reconsider its approach to teen pregnancy in order to prevent a lost generation of students.
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Find out more about Covid-19 lockdown pregnancies in our story: https://unbiasthenews.org/covid-19-lockdown-pregnancies-how-south-africa-fights-school-dropouts/
