Berlin, 11.06.2018 Sea-Watch urges a quick solution for the 629 people on the Aquarius, to be brought to a place of safety. The dispute over migration must not be carried out on the back of people in distress. The current development with the Aquarius stuck at sea between Malta and Italy is worrying to us,…
POS REGGIO CALABRIA – SATURDAY 9 JUNE h 0800 The 232 people on board have been at sea for more than 72 hours now, of which two days under bad sea conditions. People are becoming increasingly weakened. The situation is indicative of a worrying lack of search and rescue assets in the Central Mediterranean Sea.…
On Friday, 25.05.2018, the Sea-Watch 3 was involved in the rescue of more than 400 people from three rubber boats in distress. Once more the EU-funded, so-called Libyan Coast Guard (LYCG) intervened in rescue operations and turned a manageable situation into deadly chaos. With already 157 people from a previous rescue on board, Sea-Watch 3…
Berlin, 08.05.2018 For the first time legal steps against illegal pull-back actions: Sea-Watch supports survivors in court proceedings against Italy 17 survivors of the fatal boat accident of 6 November 2017 go to the European Court of Human Rights with the support of several human rights organisations and thus take legal action against the illegal…
In the last year alone, more than 3,000 people have drowned in the Central Mediterranean Sea; in 2018, more than 500 have lost their lives already. Without the reconnaissance aircraft “Moonbird”, deployed by Sea-Watch and the Swiss Humanitarian Pilots Initiative (HPI), there would have been 1000 more deaths in 2017 alone. Time and again the…
