Sea-Watch continuous air reconnaissance mission: at least 17 emergencies with more than 750 castaways within five days This week alone, our aerial reconnaissance mission registered 17 distress cases. While some boats in distress were rescued by the rescue ship Ocean Viking of the organizations Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee, at least 3 cases could…
DetailsToday, a judge in The Hague ruled on the appeal lodged by Sea-Watch. The Court’s judgment acknowledges that the negative consequences of omitting a transitional period for the more stringent safety regulations on Sea-Watch’s ship, namely that people may drown due to limited rescue capacity in the Mediterranean Sea, outweigh the purpose of the new…
Details+++ Sea-Watch 3 Enters Port of Lampedusa Without Permission +++ Disembarkation Pending +++ Captain Under Investigation +++ Neither the EU-Commission nor any European government brought about the solution for the disembarkation of the remaining 40 survivors aboard Sea-Watch 3. In the end it was captain Carola Rackete who was both forced and willing to take…
DetailsEuropean institutions have once again proven their incapability of handling the responsibility to safeguard the rights of people rescued at their deadly sea border. Neither any of the European States nor the EU commission were willing to enforce what is the basis of their constitutions – human dignity. With yesterday’s political ruling furthermore the European…
DetailsAfter being denied a Port of Safety for 7 days, the 43 people rescued by the Sea-Watch 3 are still stuck on board the ship. Sea-Watch calls on European leaders to make disembarkation happen immediately. This unbearable situation cannot continue on World Refugee Day. The solution is there, more than 60 cities have declared their…
DetailsThank you Mr Chair, I speak to you on behalf of Greenpeace International. This statement has been drafted together with Sea-Watch, a non-governmental organisation involved in search and rescue operations. It relates to an issue that is very important to both of our organisations: the urgent need to strengthen cooperation in response to the humanitarian…
DetailsLast night at 8:30 PM local time, the remaining 47 of 65 rescued people onboard the Sea-Watch 3 were disembarked safely, and in close cooperation with the Italian Coast Guard, on the island of Lampedusa. This fourth disembarkation of rescued people by a civil rescue ship in Italy this year proves once more that the…
DetailsThe civil rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 has just entered Italian territorial waters with 47 rescued persons on board as an emergency measure. Last night, the Italian Coast Guard had ordered and conducted the disembarkation of 18 women, children, and closely related men while the others, among them eight unaccompanied minors, a pregnant woman and a…
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