In 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) condemned Italy for rescuing persons in distress and transshipping them to the so-called Libyan Coast Guard, whereas Libya cannot be defined as a place of safety (Hirsi Jamaa and others…
On the evening of the 11th of July, 27 people arrived at the Favaloro pier in Lampedusa. The 27 survivors told us about their journey towards Europe. We tried to reconstruct what happened to them, amplifying their testimonies to accuse…
April 2025 Feric lost his brother in the massacre of Tarajal 2014. Together with other family members he founded an association in Douala, Cameroon where many of the victims had been born. In a meeting at the 10th anniversary of…
Mem.Med – Memoria Mediterranea is a grassroots initiative, a project born to recover the memory of the missing, support grieving families, and challenge the violence of European border policies. The project aims to accompany relatives through the process of searching…
June 1 14 people safely on board Louise Michel after crew spotts a fibreglass boat. On approach, people suddenly start jumping into the water. Crew is able to rescue all 14 people from the water. (1) June 4 …
May 3 Aurora rescues 71 people from an unseaworthy rubber boat with the assistance of Seabird 3 and safely disembarks them in Lampedusa. May 5 The crew of Ocean Viking rescues 2 separate boats in the Libyan…
It was July 2004 when the Cap Anamur case exploded. The German humanitarian ship, while returning from delivering aid to Africa, had rescued 37 people from a sinking rubber dinghy. They were kept offshore for several days. Then, when the…
On the 3rd of September, it will have been exactly 10 years ago that refugees and migrants started the March of Hope in Budapest. Thousands of people who were blocked at the Keleti train station in Budapest by the Hungarian…
This map illustrates the various civil society actors involved in search and rescue (SAR) activities in the Central Mediterranean. It has been created using data collected by Alarm Phone and the Civil MRCC from the different organizations operating in the…
Provisional Calendar 05.08. until 10.08.2025 in the ZAD near NantesTransborder Summer Camp III Big transnational gathering for Solidarity on the Routes, for interconnecting struggles and more, with 7-800 participants from all over from all over Europe, North- and West-Africa expected…
