How Volunteer & Refugee-Run Initiatives Are Reclaiming the Right to Information in Europe

NGOs and refugees across Europe are spearheading initiatives to change regressive media narratives about refugees that often present them as a homogenous group.

by Marie-Helene Rousseau

In the digital age, access to information and self-representation are human rights. Refugees and migrants on the move face a distinct and dangerous lack of reliable information from the governments of their host countries, as well as by local news media. On top of this, their voices are often lost in prevailing, reductive media n…