ECHOES Team

ECHOES Team

THE TRANSBORDER SUMMER CAMP II

Extend Infrastructures for Freedom of Movement! More than 700 activists from North and West Africa and from all over Europe participated in the second Transborder summer camp near Nantes in France, which again, followed its motto „to build and to…

CAPTAIN SUPPORT NETWORK

Presentation of a network fighting against criminalisation of boat drivers People on the move are often arrested and imprisoned for driving boats bringing people to Europe. They are accused of human smuggling, often without access to adequate legal assistance or…

VOICES FROM TUNISIA

Latifa, Chamseddine and Slah are three Tunisians affected differently by the EU border regime. Each of them has particular ways of struggling against borders through their work and their daily lives. These interviews were collected in Zarzis by the CMRCC…

AUGUST 2022

6 August The vessel Astral (Proactiva Open Arms) assists 2 boats underway to Lampedusa. One of these boats is found with the air support of Seabird 1. 8 August After an alert from the Alarm Phone, Seabird 1 is able…

JULY 2022

For July the CMRCC counted a minimum of 158 boats departing from Libya. 72 of these arrived autonomously or with support through the Alarm Phone hotline, while 32 boats were rescued by the civil fleet. For the route from Tunisia…

MISSING AT THE EU BORDERS

By Sophie-Anne Bisiaux, Maurice Stierl and Hagen Kopp Counting the Dead and Missing In recent years, various initiatives have been launched which attempt to count the numerous dead and missing persons at the borders of the European Union. The organization…