May 2025
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…
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Mare Jonio / Maersk Etienne case goes on trial: who should be the real defendants?
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…
Join the Transnational Chain of Actions for Free Movement
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…
Mapping Civil Fleet 2025
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…
Transnational Chain of Actions
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…
Insights from Lampedusa
Arrivals, Frontex and the political tool of Criminalization of drivers Lampedusa, as the transit point of many people on the move, is an important place in the fight against borders. We want to give you some insights into what we…
High alert in Tunisia
Bulldozers, Fire and IOM Fenced Camps Again According to the European Commission, the Meloni government and the forthcoming German government, Tunisia is a Safe Country. But this is not the main reason for us to keep an eye on what…
Miskar case: people on the move and the Civil fleet fighting side by side for 4 days
For 4 days, a group of 32 people who had set sail from Zuwara fought for their right to freedom of movement. After landing on a gas platform (in international waters and overlapping Maltese and Tunisian SAR zones) under Tunisian…
April 2025
April 3 During the night, the crew of Humanity1 rescues about 90 people (1). The crew is on the way to another distress case when they discover an unseaworthy wooden boat with around 50 people. Everyone can be brought…
March 2025
March 1 The aircraft Seabird and Alarm Phone warns from the danger of an illegal pullback to Tunisia: 32 people in distress prior seen by Frontex are stuck on Miskar oil platform in international waters. Actors of the civil…
