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Joint statement: Arrivals in Lampedusa
Lampedusa, picture taken in front of the hotspot, September 14, 2023. Credit: Maldusa EN – FR – DE – IT EN – Arrivals in Lampedusa: Solidarity and resistance in the face of Europe’s reception crisis! Following the arrival of a record number of people on the move in Lampedusa, civil society… Read More…
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Urgent warning: Increased deaths at sea, NGO vessels detained – European states must stop obstructing civilian search and rescue efforts in the Central Mediterranean
EN – FR – IT – DE Up to 600 people lost their lives in another avoidable shipwreck off the Greek coast in June 2023. As civil society, we are horrified by the preventable deaths in the Central Mediterranean sea which happen year in, year out. Search and rescue ships are… Read More…
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VOS THALASSA
Right to self-defense for people at risk of being pushed-back to Libya Report by the Civil MRCC legal team In December 2021, the Court of Cassation – the highest court in Italy – acquitted for ‘non consistency of the facts’, two people on the move who had previously been sentenced by… Read More…
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SEA-EYE ON THEIR EXPERIENCES OF TRANSSHIPMENT
“We are glad that we did this to show everybody that there are no reasons to hesitate” 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… Read More…
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EU BORDER EXTERNALIZATION IN THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN
The implementation of a system of forced return to Libya Sophie-Anne Bisiaux Border externalization has in the last few years become the main instrument through which the EU seeks to stop people on the move heading to Europe. The principle is as simple as it is cynical: outsource border control and… Read More…