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Italian Constitutional Court reinforces maritime law
SOS Méditerranée, Press release, 9th of July 2025 On the 8th of July 2025, the Italian Constitutional Court dismissed the legal challenge to the Piantedosi Decree, but in doing so, it reaffirmed a vital principle: national measures must comply with…
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S.S. and Others vs Italy: A missed opportunity to end border violence at sea
In 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) condemned Italy for rescuing persons in distress and transshipping them to the so-called Libyan Coast Guard, whereas Libya cannot be defined as a place of safety (Hirsi Jamaa and others…
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Disappeared at Sea: Italy’s complicity in the 11th July Tunisian Interception
On the evening of the 11th of July, 27 people arrived at the Favaloro pier in Lampedusa. The 27 survivors told us about their journey towards Europe. We tried to reconstruct what happened to them, amplifying their testimonies to accuse…
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Commemoraction: Families of missing from Senegal and Tunisia went to Cameroon
April 2025 Feric lost his brother in the massacre of Tarajal 2014. Together with other family members he founded an association in Douala, Cameroon where many of the victims had been born. In a meeting at the 10th anniversary of…
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Memory as Resistance: A week of actions in Palermo
Mem.Med – Memoria Mediterranea is a grassroots initiative, a project born to recover the memory of the missing, support grieving families, and challenge the violence of European border policies. The project aims to accompany relatives through the process of searching…
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June 2025
June 1 14 people safely on board Louise Michel after crew spotts a fibreglass boat. On approach, people suddenly start jumping into the water. Crew is able to rescue all 14 people from the water. (1) June 4 …
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May 2025
May 3 Aurora rescues 71 people from an unseaworthy rubber boat with the assistance of Seabird 3 and safely disembarks them in Lampedusa. May 5 The crew of Ocean Viking rescues 2 separate boats in the Libyan…
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Mare Jonio / Maersk Etienne case goes on trial: who should be the real defendants?
It was July 2004 when the Cap Anamur case exploded. The German humanitarian ship, while returning from delivering aid to Africa, had rescued 37 people from a sinking rubber dinghy. They were kept offshore for several days. Then, when the…
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Join the Transnational Chain of Actions for Free Movement
On the 3rd of September, it will have been exactly 10 years ago that refugees and migrants started the March of Hope in Budapest. Thousands of people who were blocked at the Keleti train station in Budapest by the Hungarian…
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Mapping Civil Fleet 2025
This map illustrates the various civil society actors involved in search and rescue (SAR) activities in the Central Mediterranean. It has been created using data collected by Alarm Phone and the Civil MRCC from the different organizations operating in the…
