Migrants and Refugees in Distress in the Mediterranean Sea On 4 March 2025, in an unprecedented decision, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee (or the Committee) requested Malta to urgently take all necessary measures to coordinate a search and…
There is a boat rusting away, abandoned in a parking lot in the port of Augusta. She is a boat strangely out of the water, carefully placed on metal trestles. Several interventions by marine engineers were required to set her…
In our struggles against borders, we are often confronted with difficult questions around media representations of the violence we witness. We are witnesses of atrocious violence experienced by people on the move. We witness people’s deaths, people’s desperation, people’s calls…
In 2021, during an attempt to cross the Mediterranean to reach Italy, Adam and 170 other migrants were pushed back to Libya. This pushback was carried out by the cargo ship Vos Triton (flying the Gibraltar flag) and by Libyan…
In recent years, the Atlantic Ocean has seen an increase of precarious migration, with more and more boats leaving from Senegal, Mauritania, and Morocco toward Spain’s Canary Islands. Also estimates of migrant deaths have risen, reaching unprecedented levels. With states…
“Justice has proven elusive for the Three. They have been punished before even standing for trial: six years in limbo for teenagers has marked them for life. The charges should be dropped, immediately!” Daniela De Bono, Coalition for the El…
The report, resulting of joint monitoring by ASGI and Maldusa, exposes the contours of a system that confines more than it welcomes, selects more than it protects. A system the Italian government has also sought to export to Albania, further…
A society’s first obligation is to protect the dignity of every human being; Libya has long forsaken that duty. In recent weeks, the country has witnessed a brutal escalation of racist violence targeting Black communities. Reports from across Libya reveal…
On March 15th 2025, the Network Against Migrant Detention NAMD held a transnational assembly attended by activists and groups from Italy, Hungary, France, Germany, Bosnia, Austria, Greece and Tunisia. During the meeting we addressed the increasingly oppressive policies that are…
F.lotta is organizing a massive run towards and across the external border of fortress Europe, an occupation of the central Mediterranean sea. We want to repoliticize the space, where the state has successfully managed to discipline rescue associations into a…
