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AUGUST 2023
2 August Open Arms, after rescuing 24 people, respond to an alert of 2 additional boats with 100 people. Upon arriving to the position, the so-called Libyan Coast Guard is on scene, having set fire to one boat and intimidates…
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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…
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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…
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UP TO 600 PEOPLE DROWNED OFF PYLOS, GREECE
Only days after EU leaders agreed to further erode the right to asylum Excerpts from an open letter signed by over 180 human rights organizations and initiatives together with Tima Kurdi, aunt of Alan Kurdi. Today on World Refugee Day,…
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A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE SITUATION IN TUNISIA AND THE NEW EU-TUNISIA DEAL
The economic crisis in Tunisia is worsening and racist attacks against Tunisia’s Black population are again escalating. Especially in Sfax, Black people are suffering from racially motivated violence. Systematic collective expulsions to the desert of the Libyan-Tunisian and Algerian-Tunisian border…
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ITALY ORDERED TO READMIT A REFUGEE ILLEGALY PUSHED-BACK TO LIBYA
By Sarita Fratini On June 10th, a Sudanese refugee, victim of the illegal refoulement from Asso Ventinove merchant vessel on the 1st and 2nd of July 2018, won the case brought against part of the Italian government (Council of Ministers,…
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THE PYLOS SHIPWRECK
Investigation by Forensic Architecture “On 14 June 2023, the Adriana, a boat leaving Libya for Italy with hundreds of migrants on board, sank inside the Greek Search and Rescue (SAR) zone in the Mediterranean Sea. This would become the deadliest…
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EVERYTHING IS IN MOTION
Tunisian lessons on Lampedusa and ambivalences of an open situation in the Mediterranean “The goal is for the Mediterranean to be a calmer sea, said the Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio Tajani on the eve of signing the memorandum of…
