Miqdaad Versi, assistant secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain , is on a one-man mission to make the mainstream media more accountable by searching for inaccuracies in UK press stories concerning Muslims.
An animated short film, narrated by two asylum-seekers detained in Australia's Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre. The film recounts the dangerous journeys that brought them to the island and their memories of the riot that erupted in 2014.
The European Union (EU) and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) organised a one-day symposium on Hate Speech Against Migrants and Refugees in the Media. EAVI was in attendance at the Symposium.
At the first Hungarian event of the My Story project we explored the direct experiences and other sources of information based on which our participants (about 70 people, workers of migrants’ organisations, mayors, journalists, teachers and students, representatives of higher education institutions and citizens) had formed their internal views and opinions on the migrant crisis. These sources, for instance, included personal experiences, the following of opinion leaders and basing opinions on content from television, Internet or government facilitated propaganda.
On Friday, January 27 2017, in the Aula Pessina of the University of Naples Federico II, a new chapter of the “My Story “event will be explored. The conference "My Story. Positive experiences of migrants and refugees" has been organized by Euroform RFS within the project "Europe for Citizens ", coordinated by EAVI.
On Wednesday 14/12 InterMediaKT organised the event “Internet Media Literacy, migration and the role of online media journalism: good practices and dangers”, as part of the project #MyStory: Media, Migrants and Refugees, which aims to apply media literacy education in shaping the ways in which the migrant crisis is presented in the media and [...]
