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Insights from Lampedusa
Arrivals, Frontex and the political tool of Criminalization of drivers Lampedusa, as the transit point of many people on the move, is an important place in the fight against borders. We want to give you some insights into what we…
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High alert in Tunisia
Bulldozers, Fire and IOM Fenced Camps Again According to the European Commission, the Meloni government and the forthcoming German government, Tunisia is a Safe Country. But this is not the main reason for us to keep an eye on what…
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Miskar case: people and the move and the Civil fleet fighting side by side for 4 days
For 4 days, a group of 32 people who had set sail from Zuwara fought for their right to freedom of movement. After landing on a gas platform (in international waters and overlapping Maltese and Tunisian SAR zones) under Tunisian…
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April 2025
April 3 During the night, the crew of Humanity1 rescues about 90 people (1). The crew is on the way to another distress case when they discover an unseaworthy wooden boat with around 50 people. Everyone can be brought…
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March 2025
March 1 The aircraft Seabird and Alarm Phone warns from the danger of an illegal pullback to Tunisia: 32 people in distress prior seen by Frontex are stuck on Miskar oil platform in international waters. Actors of the civil…
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The UN Human Rights Committee requests Malta to urgently Act
Migrants and Refugees in Distress in the Mediterranean Sea On 4 March 2025, in an unprecedented decision, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee (or the Committee) requested Malta to urgently take all necessary measures to coordinate a search and…
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Rust, Memory, and Resistance: The Afterlife of a shipwreck
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…
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The white gaze: colonial representations within solidarity structures
In our struggles against borders, we are often confronted with difficult questions around media representations of the violence we witness. We are witnesses of atrocious violence experienced by people on the move. We witness people’s deaths, people’s desperation, people’s calls…
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Legal victory for another refugee pushed-back to Libya!
In 2021, during an attempt to cross the Mediterranean to reach Italy, Adam and 170 other migrants were pushed back to Libya. This pushback was carried out by the cargo ship Vos Triton (flying the Gibraltar flag) and by Libyan…
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Conflicting realities: Mapping discrepancies in migrant deaths data on the Atlantic route
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…
