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…
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 a long journey from my home country. I had the experience of arriving…
Border Forensics is an agency mobilising innovative methods of spatial and visual analysis to investigate practices of border violence, wherever this violence might take place. Can you explain firstly the approach and work of Border Forensics and the wider political…
Could you introduce the Nadir (RESQSHIP’s ship), as the concept and the challenges behind it? How do you support boats in distress? The Nadir is a sailboat run by the German organisation RESQSHIP. When we started in 2017, we were…
By Alarm Phone Tunis and Alarm Phone Palermo With 2,308 Tunisian nationals deported from Italy in 2022 (1,872 in 2021), representing 59% of the total number of deportees, followed by Albania and Egypt, with 518 and 329 people respectively, Tunisians…
Since October 2014, the WatchTheMed Alarm Phone (AP) has been operative 24/7 as a hotline that supports people in distress at sea. The AP activist network with around 300 members in many cities in Europe and North Africa, all of…
Activist from the FTDES (Forum Tunisien Des Droits Economiques Et Sociaux) Could you tell us about the FTDES and its role in migration-related struggles? The FTDES’s philosophy has always been based on confronting unfair policies and standing by the most…
Already a first time in March 2022 and one more time in May the Sea-Eye 4 transshipped survivors, who have been rescued before by merchant vessels. We asked the chairman of Sea Eye, Gorden Isler, about the background and the…