Publications

  • KICKOFF EVENT FOR THE EVACUATION CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS FROM LIBYA
    KICKOFF EVENT FOR THE EVACUATION CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS FROM LIBYA

    26th and 27th of January 2024 in Bologna Refugees in Libya together with its supporting alliance invites to a two days event with press conference, practical workshops and political debates. More than two years ago, on 1st of October 2021,…


  • WEAPONIZING THE LAW AGAINST THE VULNERABLE: THE CASE OF THE EL HIBLU 3
    WEAPONIZING THE LAW AGAINST THE VULNERABLE: THE CASE OF THE EL HIBLU 3

    By Daniela DeBono and Ċetta Mainwaring In March 2019, three teenagers were rescued from a sinking rubber boat in the Mediterranean Sea. Amara was 15 years old and had already traveled from Guinea to Libya before attempting the crossing to…


  • THE VOS TRITON CASE: SEEKING ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE FOR PRIVATIZED PUSHBACKS
    THE VOS TRITON CASE: SEEKING ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE FOR PRIVATIZED PUSHBACKS

    By the Civil MRCC legal team On 29 December 2023, a group of civil society organizations – Associazione Studi Giuridici per l’Immigrazione (Asgi),  Comitato Nuovi Desaparecidos, Open Arms, Progetto Diritti, Sea Watch, Mediterranea Saving Humans, Jl Project e WatchTheMed Alarm…


  • AIRBORNE: AIN’T NO BORDER HIGH ENOUGH
    AIRBORNE: AIN’T NO BORDER HIGH ENOUGH

    1)What does Sea-Watch Airborne do? What is the history of creating an air reconnaissance department in Sea Watch? The background to founding Airborne was the need for documentation of human rights violations at Europe’s borders in the central Mediterranean and…


  • M., CULTURAL MEDIATOR ON BOARD A SEA RESCUE NGO
    M., CULTURAL MEDIATOR ON BOARD A SEA RESCUE NGO

    “”I’m black, I can’t swim, but my presence on this boat is fundamental.” What motivated you to join a sea rescue NGO? I myself have been on the road as a migrant. I arrived here in Italy in 2011 after…


  • COMMEMORACTION(S)
    COMMEMORACTION(S)

    By activists from the CommemorAction group On February 6, 2024, in memory of the tenth anniversary of the Tarajal massacre, an international mobilization against murderous border management and migration control policies is being prepared. By joining this mobilization and actively…


  • FROM LIBYA TO TUNISIA: HOW THE EU IS EXTENDING THE PUSH-BACK REGIME BY PROXY IN THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN
    FROM LIBYA TO TUNISIA: HOW THE EU IS EXTENDING THE PUSH-BACK REGIME BY PROXY IN THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN

    by the Civil MRCC legal team On August 21, 2023, the rescue ship Aurora from Sea Watch was detained by the Italian authorities after refusing to disembark survivors in Tunisia as ordered by the Rome MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Center),…


  • OMCT – ROUTES OF TORTURE IN TUNISIA
    OMCT – ROUTES OF TORTURE IN TUNISIA

    Mapping violations suffered by people on the move in Tunisia 18 December 2023 The report, Routes of Torture: Mapping violations suffered by people on the move in Tunisia, published by OMCT (World Organisation Against Torture) highlights the scale and nature…


  • MSF REPORT ON ABUSE IN ABU SALIM AND AIN ZARA DETENTION CENTERS IN LIBYA
    MSF REPORT ON ABUSE IN ABU SALIM AND AIN ZARA DETENTION CENTERS IN LIBYA

    6 December 2023 Over the course of 2023 up until Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ended medical activities in Tripoli in August, MSF witnessed and documented living conditions and abuses inside Abu Salim and Ain Zara detention centers, where thousands of…


  • FRANCE’S MIGRATION LAW: IN THE FACE OF THE UNACCEPTABLE, THE FIGHT GOES ON!
    FRANCE’S MIGRATION LAW: IN THE FACE OF THE UNACCEPTABLE, THE FIGHT GOES ON!

    By Alarm Phone The day after the International Day for the Rights of Migrants, the French executive adopted one of its most racist and violent texts against foreigners. This text, despite the ongoing strong mobilization of civil society, is an…