“It makes a difference!“ Under this headline, the first issue of Echoes was published online and in print, distributed at the second Transborder Summer Camp, in July 2022. One of the main goals that the editorial team had defined was…
The central Mediterranean Sea is the world’s deadliest migration route, where the racist border policies of the European Union are more evident: more than 25,000 lives have been lost since 2014. Instead of sea rescue, the European Union decides to…
Statement initiated by SAR actors after the attack on the ship Conscience, 9th of May 2025 The ship Conscience after the drone attack. Photo: Freedom Flotilla Coalition “On 2nd May in the early morning, we witnessed yet another violation of…
In June, we launched the Malta Migration Archive. The Archive sheds light on border violence in Malta by systematically documenting the many ways that the Maltese state obstructs mobility and settlement. The Archive documents state practices of non-assistance and pushbacks…
Report by SOS Mediterranee and Alarm Phone, 27th of June, 2025 On the morning of Saturday, May 24, civil network Alarm Phone alerted authorities to two overcrowded wooden boats in distress in the Libyan Search and Rescue Region (SRR). Both…
“Let our lives matter” In Echoes No. 17 we wrote: “Tunisia is opening a new chapter in the EU’s war against Black African migrants. The makeshift Camps in the olive fields are being demolished with bulldozers and fire. 30,000 persons…
Manifesto by Refugees in Libya and Alliance with Refugees in Libya In February 2017, a Memorandum of Understatement (MoU) was signed by the Italian and Libyan governments on “fighting illegal migration”. This agreement, with the support of European Union funding…
Italian Court subsequently drops all charges against Congolese woman The European Union’s highest court has set out important restraints to States’ anti-smuggling laws, which wrongly criminalize people on the move and those in solidarity with them. On 3 June 2025,…
Joint statement, 17th of July 2025 32 organisations demand the immediate ending of the systematic obstruction of non-governmental search and rescue (SAR) efforts by the Italian state. In the past month alone, NGO vessels have been detained three times due…
SOS Méditerranée, Press release, 9th of July 2025 On the 8th of July 2025, the Italian Constitutional Court dismissed the legal challenge to the Piantedosi Decree, but in doing so, it reaffirmed a vital principle: national measures must comply with…
