Over the last two years, the number of people leaving Tunisia by boat to reach Italy has been increasing. This analysis describes the latest developments along this route, while placing them in the broader framework of European border outsourcing policies.…
3 November The Rise Above (Mission Lifeline) embarks 95 people from 3 different boats which had departed from Tunisia. The smaller vessel directly requests a Port of Safety in Italy and joins ongoing standoffs being engaged in by the vessels…
Could you introduce the Nadir (RESQSHIP’s ship), as the concept and the challenges behind it? How do you support boats in distress? The Nadir is a sailboat run by the German organisation RESQSHIP. When we started in 2017, we were…
A Global Day of Struggle against the regime of death at our borders and to demand truth, justice and reparation for migration victims and their families Dear comrades, Once again, on February 6, 2023, the anniversary of the Tarajal massacre…
The war unleashed by the Italian Government against people on the move and solidarity was heralded as a triumphant “Ride of the Valkyries”. In three months it has now turned into a grueling chess game, with moves and countermoves taking…
Interview with David Yambio from Refugees in Libya On the 9th and 10th of December 2022, a press conference, a protest and a demonstration with up to 300 participants took place in front of the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva. The…
A step toward state accountability for border violence and death at sea On December 2, 2022, there was the last hearing of the criminal trial for the so-called “children shipwreck”, which occurred on 11 October 2013*. For this event, in…
4 December Patrolling off the Libyan coast, the Geo Barents rescues 74 people who were travelling in a rubber boat. On the same day, the Louise Michel spots a rubber boat carrying 103 people and assists the group until the…
Aerial Surveillance Is Enabling Interceptions, Return of Migrants to Harm Report by Border Forensics In Echoes No. 3 we published an interview with members of the independent agency Border Forensics. A current investigation about the aerial surveillance by Frontex in…
Border Forensics is an agency mobilising innovative methods of spatial and visual analysis to investigate practices of border violence, wherever this violence might take place. Can you explain firstly the approach and work of Border Forensics and the wider political…
