Civil fleet actors in 2026
This map shows the civil search and rescue actors operating in the Central Mediterranean in 2026.
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Civil fleet operations in 2025
This map shows the tracks of civil SAR operations in 2025, based on public AIS data.
From Mitiga to The Hague: Refugees in Libya Confront Impunity!
Appeal from Refugees in Libya to civil society in reference to the El Hishri case at ICC On 19 May 2026, a moment long denied arrived: for the first time in history, one of our torturers—a Libyan suspect accused of…
World social forum in Cotonou
4 to 8 August in Benin In August 2026, the next World Social Forum (WSF) will take place in Cotonou in West Africa. Several migration-related networks, which are active or even based in Africa, have started to organize their collective…
Women State Trafficking
Gender, racialisation and state violence in Tunisia and Libya This report, produced by the RR[X] collective in partnership with ASGI, Border Forensics, The Routes Journal, On Borders and Melting Pot Europa, documents the systematic violence experienced by migrant women along…
No Border lasts forever – Refugee Resistance and the Rise of the Far Right
In March 2026 a new book from the German-wide network We’ll Come United was published. It is a collection of texts, speeches and photos in German and English. From the announcement: “Europe is turning right, and refugees are being cast…
Transborder Summer Camp III – New Brochure
In May 2026 the brochure about the third Transborder Summer Camp from August 2025 near Nantes was published, available so far in English and French.This camp was 6 days of coming together, exchange, learning, discussing, meeting new and old friends…
How “stopping the boats” kills
A digital counter-forensic investigation of the human cost of the UK’s externalised border in the Channel In the years since migrants began crossing the Channel from France to the UK we have seen more and more money spent on border…
Criminalisation of Anti-Racist and Civil Society Activism in Tunisia
Since 2023, Tunisia has witnessed an alarming escalation in the criminalisation of anti-racist activists, migrant solidarity groups, and civil society organisations. Following racist statements by President Kais Saied targeting people on the move, Black communities and human rights defenders have…
El Hiblu3: Seven Hours for Seven Years (excerpts from the speeches)
Seven years after their arrest following the El Hiblu case, Abdalla, Amara and Kader continue to face prosecution in Malta for resisting an illegal return to Libya and acting as mediators on board the merchant vessel El Hiblu 1. On…
