AUGUST 2023
2 August Open Arms, after rescuing 24 people, respond to an alert of 2 additional boats with 100 people. Upon arriving to the position, the so-called Libyan Coast Guard is on scene, having set fire to one boat and intimidates…
ECHOES Team
JULY 2023
1 July Through the night, Humanity 1 (SOS Humanity) rescues 201 people over the course of 5 rescue operations. The distant port of Ortona is assigned, requiring an unnecessary 3.5 additional days of journey. 3 July Geo Barents (Médecins sans…
THE DYNAMICS OF STUGGLES FOR FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
By Sophie-Anne Bisiaux, Giuseppe Caccia, Chiara Denaro and Hagen Kopp The manufactured crisis and the solidarity response in Lampedusa In the week of the 11th to the 17th of September 2023, more than 11,560 people made it bravely to Lampedusa.…
JOINT STATEMENT – ARRIVALS IN LAMPEDUSA
Following the arrival of a record number of people on the move in Lampedusa, civil society expresses its deep concern at the security response of European states, the crisis of reception, and reaffirms its solidarity with people on the move…
SEARCHING FOR THE MISSING, CARING FOR THE DEAD
This article contains the words of those affected by the murderous border regime who struggle so the dead and the missing are not silenced and forgotten “We, families of the missing” Letter written by Laila Waleed Hasan, a young woman…
URGENT WARNING – INCREASED DEATHS AT SEA, NGO VESSELS DETAINED
European states must stop obstructing civilian search and rescue efforts in the Central Mediterranean EN – FR – IT – DE Up to 600 people lost their lives in another avoidable shipwreck off the Greek coast in June 2023. As…
MAPPING SOLIDARITY AT SEA
Civil actors along the Central Mediterranean Date: July 2023
REFUGEES IN LIBYA – PROTESTS IN BRUSSELS
By Solidarity with Refugees in Libya After the collective protests in December 2022 in front of the headquarters of the UNHCR in Geneva, Refugees in Libya and the support alliance mobilized for the end of June 2023 to the European…
UP TO 600 PEOPLE DROWNED OFF PYLOS, GREECE
Only days after EU leaders agreed to further erode the right to asylum Excerpts from an open letter signed by over 180 human rights organizations and initiatives together with Tima Kurdi, aunt of Alan Kurdi. Today on World Refugee Day,…
JUNE 2023
1 June The Mare*Go performs her first rescue of 36 people who tried to reach Lampedusa. Italian authorities ordered to disembark the survivors in Trapani which is a day of sailing away. For not complying but instead disembarking the survivors…