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OCTOBER 2023
3 October Colibri 2 provides critical support to Nadir in 3 operations with 125 people in distress. 4 October The Alarm Phone receives a distress call from a boat with 53 people. Louise Michel is in the area and finds the overcrowded rubber boat. After performing the rescue, Louise Michel responds to a mayday relay […]
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BETWEEN SOVEREIGNTY AND EUROPEAN INTERFERENCE: THE AMBIGUITY OF TUNISIAN AUTHORITIES ON THE ISSUE OF MIGRATION CONTOL
By Alarm phone Tunis In recent months, Tunisia has come under increasing scrutiny from European countries. Faced with the increase of crossings along the Tunisian route, particularly active between Sfax and Lampedusa, the EU and its member states have stepped up their outsourcing policies in an effort to reduce the number of arrivals on the […]
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JUNE 2022
Alarm Phone received 57 distress calls from Libya. 22 of these have been rescued by NGO vessels (Sea Watch 3, Sea Watch 4, Mare Jonio, Imara, Sea Eye 4, Aita Mari, Nadir, Louise Michel, Ocean Viking, Geo Barents), 13 got intercepted by the so-called Libyan Coast Guard. All in all, we know of 34 boats […]
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EU BORDER EXTERNALIZATION IN THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN
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 the rights violations that these controls necessarily imply to third countries. To stem migration […]
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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 Following the arrival of a record number of people on the move in Lampedusa, civil society expresses its deep concern at the security response of European states, the crisis of reception, and reaffirms its solidarity […]
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FROM SEA TO PRISON
ARCI Porco Rosso and Alarm Phone The criminalization of migration has been an important element in the context of the EU’s cruel border policies. A growing awareness of the scale and importance of this punitive political and legal strategy has led to increasingly structured efforts at understanding and finding ways to resist it. In Italy, […]
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VOS THALASSA
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 the Palermo Court of Appeal to more than three years’ imprisonment and a 50,000 euro fine, […]
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THE FREE EL HIBLU 3 CAMPAIGN
The “ElHiblu 3” were among 108 people rescued by the merchant vessel ElHiblu 1 in March 2019. When facing the prospect of being illegally returned to Libya, the group of migrants protested and convinced the crew to steer north instead. Upon arrival in Malta, three of the rescued were imprisoned. 2022 they still continue to […]
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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 urgently needed to prevent […]
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SEA-EYE ON THEIR EXPERIENCES OF TRANSSHIPMENT
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 Isler, about the background and the process of these transshipments. Gorden, Sea Eye organized transshipments two times within last few months. […]