Ten years ago, the Lampedusa tragedy: 368 young lives cut short a few hundred meters from the beach, when freedom and a better future seemed just a step away. CommemorAction in Oujda. 2020. Photo: Alarm Phone The 10th anniversary of…
Press release by MEDITERRANEA Saving Humans published on the 11th of September 2023 In the last few hours, the Italian government’s willingness to hinder and block civil rescue ships has taken another negative leap forward: the authorities have ordered the…
1 July Through the night, Humanity 1 (SOS Humanity) rescues 201 people over the course of 5 rescue operations. The distant port of Ortona is assigned, requiring an unnecessary 3.5 additional days of journey. 3 July Geo Barents (Médecins sans…
The manufactured crisis and the solidarity response in Lampedusa In the week of the 11th to the 17th of September 2023, more than 11,560 people made it bravely to Lampedusa. Not all who tried succeeded. Some were intercepted by the…
With 2,308 Tunisian nationals deported from Italy in 2022 (1,872 in 2021), representing 59% of the total number of deportees, followed by Albania and Egypt, with 518 and 329 people respectively, Tunisians arriving in Italy are confronted with a violation…
The murderous EU border regime never stopped killing… By Hagen Kopp (Alarm Phone) Together with survivors and relatives of the victims we will not stop denouncing the responsible politicians and authorities for the ongoing massacres. A medium to mourn, to…
“We can only be creative as a broad network of solidarity that relies on information from people on the move and their relatives.” Since October 2014, the WatchTheMed Alarm Phone (AP) has been operative 24/7 as a hotline that supports…
Lampedusa, picture taken in front of the hotspot, September 14, 2023. Credit: Maldusa EN – FR – DE – IT EN – Arrivals in Lampedusa: Solidarity and resistance in the face of Europe’s reception crisis! Following the arrival of a……
Categories Select Category Amplifying voices (1) Analysis (1) Criminalisation (2) Diary of cooperation at sea (2) Interview (1) Legal fragment (1) Mobilisation (5) Report (1) Uncategorized (1) Lampedusa, picture taken in front of the hotspot, September 14, 2023. Credit: Maldusa EN – FR – DE – IT EN –…
It makes a difference: a Diary of Rescue Coordination by Civil Actors in the Central Mediterranean Sea Alarm Phone received 57 distress calls from Libya. 22 of these have been rescued by NGO vessels (Sea Watch 3, Sea Watch 4,……
