NOVEMBER 2023
3 November Ocean Viking assists a boat in distress in the Ionian Sea. During the night, 75 men, women & children are rescued from a sailing boat that departed from Izmir, Turkey. The MSF team rescues 29 men and one…
ECHOES TEAM
CALL FOR A DECENTALIZED COMMEMORACTION
“Their life, our light. Their destiny, our anger. Open the borders!” February 6, 2024 – Tenth anniversary Global day of struggle against the deadly border regime and to demand truth, justice and reparation for victims of migration and their families.…
REPEAL OF THE “ANTI-MIGRATION” LAW 2015-036 IN NIGER
On 25 November 2023, General Abdourahamane Tiani, the President of the “Conseil National pour la Sauvegarde de la Patrie (CNSP)”, the body that has been running the government in Niger since the coup d’état on 26 July 2023, signed an…
A GRAVE INJUSTICE: ATTORNEY GENERAL FILES BILL OF INDICTMENT AGAINST THE EL HIBLU 3
By the Coalition for the El Hiblu 3 The Attorney General of Malta has issued a Bill of Indictment against Abdalla, Amara, and Kader, also known as the El Hiblu 3. They have been wrongly charged with a long list…
KICKOFF EVENT FOR THE EVACUATION CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS FROM LIBYA
26th and 27th of January 2024 in Bologna Refugees in Libya together with its supporting alliance invites to a two days event with press conference, practical workshops and political debates. More than two years ago, on 1st of October 2021,…
WEAPONIZING THE LAW AGAINST THE VULNRABLE: THE CASE OF THE EL HIBLU 3
By Daniela DeBono and Ċetta Mainwaring In March 2019, three teenagers were rescued from a sinking rubber boat in the Mediterranean Sea. Amara was 15 years old and had already traveled from Guinea to Libya before attempting the crossing to…
THE VOS TRITON CASE: SEEKING ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE FOR PRIVATIZED PUSHBACKS
By the Civil MRCC legal team On 29 December 2023, a group of civil society organizations – Associazione Studi Giuridici per l’Immigrazione (Asgi), Comitato Nuovi Desaparecidos, Open Arms, Progetto Diritti, Sea Watch, Mediterranea Saving Humans, Jl Project e WatchTheMed Alarm…
M., CULTURAL MEDIATOR ON BOARD A SEA RESCUE NGO
“”I’m black, I can’t swim, but my presence on this boat is fundamental.” What motivated you to join a sea rescue NGO? I myself have been on the road as a migrant. I arrived here in Italy in 2011 after…
AIRBORNE: AIN’T NO BORDER HIGH ENOUGH
1)What does Sea-Watch Airborne do? What is the history of creating an air reconnaissance department in Sea Watch? The background to founding Airborne was the need for documentation of human rights violations at Europe’s borders in the central Mediterranean and…
COMMEMORACTION(S)
By activists from the CommemorAction group On February 6, 2024, in memory of the tenth anniversary of the Tarajal massacre, an international mobilization against murderous border management and migration control policies is being prepared. By joining this mobilization and actively…
