Joint Statement by Sea Watch and Alarm Phone On 14 June 2023, over 600 men, women and children who had fled Libya have drowned near the Greek island of Pylos in one of the largest shipwrecks in recent years. A few weeks earlier, on 23 May 2023, 500 people who had already made it to…
DetailsOpen letter by over 180 human rights organizations and initiatives together with Tima Kurdi, aunt of Alan Kurdi. Today on World Refugee Day, we jointly demand full and independent investigations into the events, clear consequences for those responsible, an end to the systematic pushback practices at the European borders, and justice for the victims.…
DetailsAfter rescuing 39 people from distress at sea last Monday, the Sea-Watch rescue ship Aurora was detained by Italian authorities in Lampedusa yesterday evening, June 14, 2023. Also yesterday, southwest of Greece, at least 79 people on the move drowned in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean, with hundreds missing. On Monday, June 12, the Aurora crew brought 39…
DetailsThis factsheet presents a summary of the distress cases witnessed in January and February 2023 by Sea-Watch’s Airborne Operations with the aircraft Seabird 2 (1). In January and February 2023, we conducted 8 operations over a total flight time of 56 hours and 41 minutes. We spotted 9 boats, carrying around 517 (2) persons in distress at sea. Download…
DetailsJakob is Tactical Coordinator for our air reconnaissance mission Airborne. We spoke to him about the current situation in the Mediterranean and a particularly violent incident on March 25th. You spent the last few weeks on Lampedusa. From there, you left almost daily by plane to the area of operation. What is the situation like…
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