ECHOES Team – Page 4

1 May After Alarm Phone received and forwarded several distress calls to authorities and NGO‘s, the Geo Barents (Médecins Sans Frontières) is able to rescue 299 people from a huge overcrowded fishing vessel and 36 people from a small fiberglass…

by the migration-control.info project and Alarm Phone Tunis  The economic crisis in Tunisia is worsening and racist attacks against Tunisia’s Black population are again escalating. Especially in Sfax, Black people are suffering from racially motivated violence. Systematic collective expulsions to…

Tunisian lessons on Lampedusa and ambivalences of an open situation in the Mediterranean By Mediterranea Saving Humans  “The goal is for the Mediterranean to be a calmer sea, said the Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio Tajani on the eve of…

Investigation by Forensic Architecture “On 14 June 2023, the Adriana, a boat leaving Libya for Italy with hundreds of migrants on board, sank inside the Greek Search and Rescue (SAR) zone in the Mediterranean Sea. This would become the deadliest…

By Sarita Fratini On June 10th, a Sudanese refugee, victim of the illegal refoulement from Asso Ventinove merchant vessel on the 1st and 2nd of July 2018, won the case brought against part of the Italian government (Council of Ministers,…

By Alarm Phone In the previous edition of ECHOES, we highlighted the growing concerns regarding a potential collaboration between Italy and Eastern Libya, which could lead to an anticipated increase in pullback operations within the “SAR3” region. Shortly after the…

Join the Alarm Phone non-stop performance in Brussels! We, the Alarm Phone Creative-Action-Group, invite you to our first action. “We kindly request you to stop killing” is an attempt to deal with the systemic indifference we face in matters of…

From Tripoli to Bruxelles: Call for a demonstration in Brussels on 1st of July 2023 Brussels is at the centre of European decision-making, with the headquarters of EU-Council, the EU-Commission and its parliament. It is also the heart of EU…

Joint Statement signed by 69 Civil Search And Rescue Organizations and migrant solidarity networks 17 April 2023 We, the undersigned organisations, issue this statement to remind once again that Tunisia is neither a safe country of origin nor a safe…

Updates on the trials and a new investigation by Forensic Architecture on the fire in Moria “The appeal trial of four of the Moria 6 originally scheduled to take place on 6 March 2023, was postponed for a year by…