Fighting Fortress Europe has never been easy, but the civil fleet is operating in an increasingly smaller space in the Central Mediterranean. We witness a highly militarized and mobile so-called Libyan coast guard backed by the EU and other Libyan…
On the eve of the commemorations, institutional and otherwise, of the shipwreck of 3rd October 2013, dozens of boats are arriving in Lampedusa: some recovered by military assets, some rescued by the civilian fleet’s sailboats, others on their own. Within…
One year ago exactly, we wrote that “everything (and everyone) was in motion.” While this is certainly true today for all the actors involved in the central Mediterranean route, it is no less necessary to try to put a few…
For several months now, the subject of so-called “run-away-boats” has animated the world of sea rescue NGOs and beyond. These boats, which carry migrants trying to escape Libya, have characteristics that make them particularly controversial: often of relatively good quality…
How the “political level” has stifled human rights and the laws of the sea. An internal Italian Coast Guard email leaked few weeks ago to the press thanks to Marco Damilano’s public TV broadcast “Il Cavallo e la Torre” (The…
What does the violent escalation of the so-called Libyan coastguard mean? The armed attack by the Libyan patrol vessel Fezzan against the shipwrecked people and the rescuers of the MARE JONIO on April 4th is only the latest episode of…
Alarm phone Tunis In Tunisia, the European Union and its member states continue to deepen their policies of outsourcing maritime controls, pursuing the dangerous and illusory goal of preventing arrivals on Italian shores at all costs. On April 17, the…
Racism, Ordeal of Migrants and No End in Sight by migration-control.info Extreme violence and an openly racist policy against Black people have been ongoing in Tunisia for more than a year now. The already existing racism in Tunisia escalated in…
By Mediterranea Saving Humans Some communication expert should advise the Italian government to avoid triumphalist announcements about “reduced landings”: as was the case in 2022 then promptly in 2023, every time a minister in the Meloni government publicly claims fewer…
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…
By Hagen Kopp 157.314 sea arrivals to Italy in 2023! An increase of about 50.000 people compared to 2022. According to UNHCR statistics, only in 2014 and 2016 were more landings registered on this central Mediterranean route. And that in…
