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 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…
A Civil fleet workshop On October 10 and 11, 2024, the SABIR festival[1] in Rome hosted a workshop organized by the Civil Fleet and attended by many of the NGOs involved in Search and Rescue in the Central Mediterranean. The…
The association Boza Fii organized the third edition of the Caravan for the Missing, from November 1-10, 2024. This year, Boza fii visited five destinations: Rufisque, Fass-Boye, Joal-Fadiouth, Kafountine and Ziguinchor. These cities were chosen because of the high level…
Call for Justice On the 12th of November 2024, the non-governmental organisation Sea-Watch, together with three survivors and a relative of one of the victims, filed a complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Agrigento, trying to shed light on…
The Central Mediterranean route is considered as the world’s most deadly maritime route, but there is another route that is little known, but just as lethal: the Comoros route, which since the mid-1990s has transformed the northern Mozambique Channel into a…
So far, this section of Echoes has focused in particular on the Central Mediterranean route, because that is where most of the civilian SAR fleet has operated since 2014. Without going into detail here on the geographical evolution of civil…
Justice for victims and survivors On 14 June 2023, more than 600 migrants were killed when their boat Adriana capsized after the authorities attempted to push them back to Italy instead of rescuing them from their already endangered boat. But…
A journey through the identification of a deceased person On 6 March, Rahman Farazi died on board the Sea Watch 5. Rahman was 19, from the Bangladeshi city of Maripur. Rahman died after being rescued in the middle of the…
From the sea to Italy An interview by Filippo Furri with Silvia Di Meo (Mem.Med) 1. For more than 10 years now, the issue of research for families of missing persons in migration and identification procedures has been the subject…
CommemorAction is a blended word encompassing both commemoration and action. It emphasizes both the commitment to remembering those who died or disappeared in their pursuit of freedom of movement and the demand for justice. Picture: CommemorAction in Tanger, Morocco On…
“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.…
