Publications

  • March 2025
    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…


  • The UN Human Rights Committee requests Malta to urgently Act
    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…


  • Rust, Memory, and Resistance: The Afterlife of a shipwreck
    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…


  • The white gaze: colonial representations within solidarity structures
    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…


  • Legal victory for another refugee pushed-back to Libya!
    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…


  • Conflicting realities: Mapping discrepancies in migrant deaths data on the Atlantic route
    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…


  • El Hiblu 3 – Six years in limbo!
    El Hiblu 3 – Six years in limbo!

    “Justice has proven elusive for the Three. They have been punished before even standing for trial: six years in limbo for teenagers has marked them for life. The charges should be dropped, immediately!”  Daniela De Bono, Coalition for the El…


  • Burning bodies, killing policies: The violence of border regimes
    Burning bodies, killing policies: The violence of border regimes

    The report, resulting of joint monitoring by ASGI and Maldusa, exposes the contours of a system that confines more than it welcomes, selects more than it protects. A system the Italian government has also sought to export to Albania, further…


  • Drastic outbreak of racist violence against Black people in Libya
    Drastic outbreak of racist violence against Black people in Libya

    A society’s first obligation is to protect the dignity of every human being; Libya has long forsaken that duty. In recent weeks, the country has witnessed a brutal escalation of racist violence targeting Black communities. Reports from across Libya reveal…


  • Report from the mobilisation of the network against migrant detention
    Report from the mobilisation of the network against migrant detention

    On March 15th 2025, the Network Against Migrant Detention NAMD held a transnational assembly attended by activists and groups from Italy, Hungary, France, Germany, Bosnia, Austria, Greece and Tunisia. During the meeting we addressed the increasingly oppressive policies that are…