November 2024
November 6 Ocean Viking performs the rescue of 140 people, incl. 5 women & 4 children, from a double-decker wooden boat in the international waters off Libya. In the afternoon, the crew of Ocean Viking carries out a second rescue…
ECHOES TEAM
October 2024
October 2 Thanks to information from Seabird, the Nadir was able to find a rubber dinghy with 43 people. As water was already entering, everyone was evacuated to the Nadir. The crew then continued the search with Trotamar III coordinated…
The Comoros route: a graveyard in the Indian Ocean
The Central Mediterranean route is considered as the world’s most deadly maritime route, but there is another route that is little known, but just as lethal: the Comoros route, which since the mid-1990s has transformed the northern Mozambique Channel into a…
Flying under Flussi: The latest attack on Airborne Operations in the Central Mediterranean
Fighting Fortress Europe has never been easy, but the civil fleet is operating in an increasingly smaller space in the Central Mediterranean. We witness a highly militarized and mobile so-called Libyan coast guard backed by the EU and other Libyan…
2025: 10 Years Summer of Migration
… and an opportunity for a chain of transnational actions? In summer 2025 it will be ten years since the struggle for freedom of movement in the Aegean Sea and along the Balkan route culminated in a historical march of…
Call for African and international solidarity
No to the criminalization of solidarity, freedom for activists in Tunisia defending the rights of migrants and refugees! 18 December 2024 Since May 7, 2024, civic activists in Tunisia have been arrested and placed in pretrial detention. Their so-called crime?…
10 YEARS OF ALARM PHONE
11 October 2024 „…We have built a transnational and multilingual collective that is committed to stay at the side of people who enact their right to move…“ To mark the 10th anniversary of its foundation, the Alarm Phone will organise…
15 YEARS NETWORK WELCOME TO EUROPE
September 2024 In September 2009, in the middle of a noborder struggle on the greek island of Lesvos, the network Welcome to Europe was born. Nowadays, the network consists of approximately 20 activists from 10 European countries, working on making…
REQUEST TO THE ICC PROSECUTOR TO INVESTIGATE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN TUNISIA
Attacks on black African migrants On 24 September 2024, a request was submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by lawyers acting for family members of detained Tunisian opposition politicians Rached Ghannouchi, Said Ferjani, Ghazi Chaouachi, Chaima Issa, Noureddine Bhiri,…
FROM TRIPOLI TO BERLIN
Refugees in Libya and supporting organizations invited for a two-day event in the German capital After a first convergence in January 2024 in Bologna and a second one in Rome in the beginning of June, a third two-day event by…
