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…
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…
“”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…
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…
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…
by the Civil MRCC legal team On August 21, 2023, the rescue ship Aurora from Sea Watch was detained by the Italian authorities after refusing to disembark survivors in Tunisia as ordered by the Rome MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Center),…
Mapping violations suffered by people on the move in Tunisia 18 December 2023 The report, Routes of Torture: Mapping violations suffered by people on the move in Tunisia, published by OMCT (World Organisation Against Torture) highlights the scale and nature…
6 December 2023 Over the course of 2023 up until Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ended medical activities in Tripoli in August, MSF witnessed and documented living conditions and abuses inside Abu Salim and Ain Zara detention centers, where thousands of…
By Alarm Phone The day after the International Day for the Rights of Migrants, the French executive adopted one of its most racist and violent texts against foreigners. This text, despite the ongoing strong mobilization of civil society, is an…
by PRO ASYL The CEAS (Common European Asylum System) reform will foreseeably lead to more suffering, violence and pushbacks at the external borders. The EU does not stop at the imprisonment of children or refugee deals with autocratic states. PRO…
