The sea rescue organization Sea-Watch has filed criminal charges against Italian authorities with the public prosecutor’s office in Agrigento, including multiple counts of negligent manslaughter. On September 2, Sea-Watch reported an emergency to the Italian Coast Guard, which later suffered a shipwreck. Twenty-one people drowned before Italian authorities took rescue measures. The complaint, which is…
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…
