Tunisia is not a safe place – human rights violations and racism threaten the lives of people on the move. Despite countless reports about the situation, the EU is specifically funding and supporting the expansion of the Tunisian search and rescue zone and the national guard. As a reminder: Tunisia is not a safe harbour…
The European border agency Frontex is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The civil sea rescue organization Sea-Watch draws a sobering balance: Since its foundation, Frontex – financed by EU billions – has developed into a central player in sealing off Europe and criminalizing flight and migration – at the cost of human lives. Sea-Watch…
In view of the rampant human rights violations against migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees in Tunisia, especially those who are Black; Tunisia’s lack of an asylum system; the Tunisian government’s crackdown on civil society, judicial independence, and the media; and the impossibility of fairly and individually determining nationalities or assessing the protection needs of migrants…
Sea-Watch, operating two monitoring aircraft over the Central Mediterranean, denounces the latest Italian migration law as a direct assault on civil efforts to monitor and document human rights violations committed by the EU, Italy, and its proxies. This law, which allows for the grounding and confiscation of NGO aircraft, is an apparent attempt to shut…
Homayoun Sabetara has been innocently jailed in Greece for more than three years. Like thousands of others, he is unlawfully accused of driving his own getaway car across the Greek border to apply for asylum. Ahead of his appeal trial on 24 September, 70 organizations, including LeaveNoOneBehind, borderline-europe and Sea-Watch, are calling for his release and…
