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Timeline – 10 years of Civil Sea rescue in the Central Mediterranean
In support of migrants’ freedom of movement and against border deaths! Over the past decade, the Central Mediterranean has become a battleground between state-led border deterrence, people on the move and civilian efforts to uphold the right to life at…
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Three years of Echoes!
“It makes a difference!“ Under this headline, the first issue of Echoes was published online and in print, distributed at the second Transborder Summer Camp, in July 2022. One of the main goals that the editorial team had defined was…
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F.lotta: Sea occupations against the border regime
The central Mediterranean Sea is the world’s deadliest migration route, where the racist border policies of the European Union are more evident: more than 25,000 lives have been lost since 2014. Instead of sea rescue, the European Union decides to…
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In the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and following the drone attack, we stand together in solidarity with the Freedom Flotilla!
Statement initiated by SAR actors after the attack on the ship Conscience, 9th of May 2025 The ship Conscience after the drone attack. Photo: Freedom Flotilla Coalition “On 2nd May in the early morning, we witnessed yet another violation of…
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Malta Migration Archive: Countermapping Border Violence
In June, we launched the Malta Migration Archive. The Archive sheds light on border violence in Malta by systematically documenting the many ways that the Maltese state obstructs mobility and settlement. The Archive documents state practices of non-assistance and pushbacks…
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MV Bobic case – Deadly Failure of Rescue Coordination in the Central Mediterranean
Report by SOS Mediterranee and Alarm Phone, 27th of June, 2025 On the morning of Saturday, May 24, civil network Alarm Phone alerted authorities to two overcrowded wooden boats in distress in the Libyan Search and Rescue Region (SRR). Both…
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Tunisia: Destruction and self-organised Protests
“Let our lives matter” In Echoes No. 17 we wrote: “Tunisia is opening a new chapter in the EU’s war against Black African migrants. The makeshift Camps in the olive fields are being demolished with bulldozers and fire. 30,000 persons…
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Stop the Memorandum between Italy and Libya!
Manifesto by Refugees in Libya and Alliance with Refugees in Libya In February 2017, a Memorandum of Understatement (MoU) was signed by the Italian and Libyan governments on “fighting illegal migration”. This agreement, with the support of European Union funding…
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Kinsa case – EU’s top court rules: Anti-smuggling laws must be made compatible with fundamental rights
Italian Court subsequently drops all charges against Congolese woman The European Union’s highest court has set out important restraints to States’ anti-smuggling laws, which wrongly criminalize people on the move and those in solidarity with them. On 3 June 2025,…
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The obstruction of search and rescue vessels causes hundreds of deaths at sea
Joint statement, 17th of July 2025 32 organisations demand the immediate ending of the systematic obstruction of non-governmental search and rescue (SAR) efforts by the Italian state. In the past month alone, NGO vessels have been detained three times due…
