AUGUST 2022
6 August The vessel Astral (Proactiva Open Arms) assists 2 boats underway to Lampedusa. One of these boats is found with the air support of Seabird 1. 8 August After an alert from the Alarm Phone, Seabird 1 is able…
ECHOES TEAM
CAPTAIN SUPPORT NETWORK
Presentation of a network fighting against criminalisation of boat drivers People on the move are often arrested and imprisoned for driving boats bringing people to Europe. They are accused of human smuggling, often without access to adequate legal assistance or…
MISSING AT THE EU BORDERS
Counting the Dead and Missing In recent years, various initiatives have been launched which attempt to count the numerous dead and missing persons at the borders of the European Union. The organization “United” was among the first to try to…
AUTONOMOUS ARRIVALS: THE VAST MAJORITY OVERCOME THE CHALLENGES AND RISKS OF SEA-CROSSING ON THEIR OWN STRENGTH
What happened in the early morning of 26.07.2022 was far from new – in another call to Alarm Phone, the same people who provided their GPS position from their boat at sea during the night a few hours earlier, stated…
JULY 2022
For July the CMRCC counted a minimum of 158 boats departing from Libya. 72 of these arrived autonomously or with support through the Alarm Phone hotline, while 32 boats were rescued by the civil fleet. For the route from Tunisia…
FROM PLACE OF SAFETY TO PORT OF DESTINATION
On the 25th of September, there will be an early general election in Italy. Once again, a part of the election campaign is being played out on the backs of people on the move. According to the polls, Giorgia Meloni,…
TRANSSHIPMENT: WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BOOGEYMAN?
Last June, the Sea-Watch 4 did its very last mission as Sea-Watch 4 – from now on she will continue to operate in the Central Mediterranean with SOS Humanity as “Humanity 1”. This last mission was quite extraordinary in the…
VOICES FROM TUNISIA
Latifa, Chamseddine and Slah are three Tunisians affected differently by the EU border regime. Each of them has particular ways of struggling against borders through their work and their daily lives. These interviews were collected in Zarzis by the CMRCC…
JUNE 2022
Alarm Phone received 57 distress calls from Libya. 22 of these have been rescued by NGO vessels (Sea Watch 3, Sea Watch 4, Mare Jonio, Imara, Sea Eye 4, Aita Mari, Nadir, Louise Michel, Ocean Viking, Geo Barents), 13 got…
FROM SEA TO PRISON
The criminalization of boat drivers in Italy ARCI Porco Rosso and Alarm Phone The criminalization of migration has been an important element in the context of the EU’s cruel border policies. A growing awareness of the scale and importance of…
