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…
by the migration-control.info project and Alarm Phone Tunis The economic crisis in Tunisia is worsening and racist attacks against Tunisia’s Black population are again escalating. Especially in Sfax, Black people are suffering from racially motivated violence. Systematic collective expulsions to…
By Mediterranea Saving Humans As accustomed as we are to the bizarre, inappropriate and sometimes offensive statements of the Italian Minister of the Interior, the sentence pronounced by Matteo Piantedosi last March 25th in front of the ‘School of Political…
By Medititerranea Saving Humans The new rightwing government of Giorgia Meloni in Italy immediately presented itself, as many feared, with the hard face of “Law & Order”. Not only on migration, however. On the contrary, within two weeks of taking…
By Mediterranea Saving Humans The war unleashed by the Italian Government against people on the move and solidarity was heralded as a triumphant “Ride of the Valkyries”. In three months it has now turned into a grueling chess game, with…
In the last few hours, the Italian government’s willingness to hinder and block civil rescue ships has taken another negative leap forward: the authorities have ordered the shipping company of our MARE JONIO to “remove from the ship, before her…
By Chiara Denaro and Lucia Gennari, CMRCC legal team Reflections on the selective disembarkation strategy in light of the Catania Civil Court decision in the case of the Humanity 1. A few weeks after its election, the new far-right Italian…
By Beppe Caccia, Mediterranea On the 25th of September, there will be an early general election in Italy. Once again, a part of the election campaign is being played out on the backs of people on the move. According to…